A day in the life of a trucker (May 10, 2025)

Alright, Thursday. Easy day today.

****The date is wrong in the title, hahah

First, coffee.

I was then asked if I could just pull ahead and park down the main road, ready to move as soon as my turn would come for the crane. This would allow me to arrive facing the right way, avoiding disturbing traffic as much as possible.

The Black Halo
Kamelot
Waterdown ON

Soon enough it was my turn at the crane.

This almost has a tilt shift effect. But not quite, heh. After this here I had something to load, which got cancelled. I then had something else come up. And that too got cancelled.

That means back to the shop.

Taste Revenge
Sanctuary
Waterdown ON

The Obsidian Conspiracy
Nevermore
Toronto ON

Devils and Angels
Psychotic Waltz
Kingston ON

Lucretia My Reflection
Warrel Dane
Cornwall ON

Under a Luminous Sky
Communic
Ste-Madeleine QC

Back to the shop. And there's no work tomorrow. Again. I am getting really, really tired of this. The year 2025 is a fucking nightmare.

So, tomorrow, I will call the Canadian Forces recruiting centre, in Québec City, to enquire about my application and where it's at. The more it goes, the more I can't wait for this to move forward.

I am getting fed up of trucking and I haven't had any real fun doing it for quite a while. Remember that one time I got rear-ended up in Northern Ontario by a "Brampton-type driver", just before Christmas? That single event pretty much killed the passion I once had for the job. A lot of things changed for me at that very moment.

Tumilik! Bringer og happiness and joy. She's such a wonderful girl.

I bought new hiking boots after work today. For a while I was using my old ginormous Baffin winter boots for walking. They were worn out a lot, and some plastic part inside the back of the left boot cracked, cutting my Achilles tendon while I was walking one day.

It was so fucking painful.

So, I started using my old hiking boots. But they, too, had seen better times and were quite worn out. And the same thing happened—the inner framing of the back of the left boot cracked, causing a lot of pain while walking.

So… new boots! And these are waterproof, too.

After the walk, it was time for the exercise part.

Today I'm on Day 4 of Week 1. But.. I wasn't able to do the "loaded 25 lbs" part as I don't have a backpack/ruck sack to do so. I'll be getting one in the near future.

Today was also "Circuit 1" day.

I read about the tests done at the CAF training with the sandbags, such as these. The last one means involves a minimum of 100kg (220 lbs) of sandbags.

I need to practice that.

And I found a solution. A 10-pack of military grade heavy duty bags. And at the local hardware store they sell them sand bags at 20kg a piece for like 8 bucks.

This sort of brings me back to my younger years, when I was in high school and up until the age of 20, where I went to the gym on a regular basis and trained for years as a powerlifter. And back then I used to do around 70 km of biking on a regular basis. Played baseball (right fielder), and hockey. It's probably why getting back in shape today doesn't feel like a burden at all.

Also..so far I've lost weight, about 6% of my weight. And I noticed today that I haven't had any acid reflux whatsoever for over a week now. I think weight loss, combined with good exercises, and drinking A LOT of water surely helped.

And that's it for this week. It's now 1:35am and I want to be up at 5:30 (soon) to go to the local pool and practice swimming for a couple of hours.

Cheers!