Hi Gary I too started driving at 63, this year, had my license since I was 19. After 20 years working for a transportation company, then 25 years in law enforcement I wasn't ready to stop working yet. I talked my wife of 32 years into retiring early( that was easy) and going over the road. We have been working on the east coast of US and live In Maine . Good luck and be safe.
@eirarobinson5880
2 жыл бұрын
No one was more surprised than I when you switched lanes(pardon the pun) 😂 so proud of you! .. P.S. I’m his mother.
@sergebrunet4218
2 жыл бұрын
Hi ! nice to hear that ! i m retired from 35 years of coast to coast trucking and now 65 1/2 I wish i could drive some more ! but the doctor in Edmonton AB. suspended my driver s licence and now it s expired and i will strugle to live on security pension ! anyhow ! i can tell you that i never had an accident in my trucking carriere ! just one time i got off the road in the snow ! coming back from Whitehorse Yukon but didn t do any dammage ! but it cost my boss 7,300 $ to pull me out back on the road ! all that because i was watching my phone for too long ! Damn phones ! LoL
@rovingtrucker
2 жыл бұрын
My story is going to be similar to yours except that I’m out in the prairies. Turned 55 late last year (2021) and decided to quit a decades long career in banking to become a long haul truck driver. Started the MELT program at the beginning of February 2022 and passed my Class 1 road exam two weeks ago. Last week I got an offer of employment as a cross border driver and will be starting a 6 to 7 week long mentorship training program. Hopefully I’ll be solo by the summer and have the chance to drive the mid west states and the eastern provinces!
@phantom6715
2 жыл бұрын
Good luck
@seanh2390
2 жыл бұрын
good for you … wishing you success and happiness
@joelmcallister9248
2 жыл бұрын
Just found you channel. Love what you are doing. I'm in my 60's and want to do the same for the last few years of my working life. Thank you for posting.
@jaysully2272
2 жыл бұрын
Never been to Canada it's crazy how clear those roads are when there's snow all around. Best of luck! Be safe out there
@lorenemeyer1409
2 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on your new career and adventure! i really enjoy traveling with you. That is a long hill! Thank you for transporting our goods.
@margaretporkolab7166
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Gary that was interesting about you starting in your 60s. Congratulations You are right about the way Covid 29 Lockdowns affected people. It sure it me hard. But your video cheered me up and I got to see the country without leaving the house. Thank you for being here. 👍from Ontario Canada 🍁🇨🇦
@400fletch6
2 жыл бұрын
Good on you, I’m a retired truck driver in New Zealand been driving most of my working life, thanks for the videos and keep them coming and hope you keep enjoying the job, and by the way you are never too old.
@karenfabery8986
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't get my CDL till I was 45
@brianfifield2540
2 жыл бұрын
great job Gary THANKS for takin us along for the ride.
@trentk7732
2 жыл бұрын
I became a rookie driver at 52 myself been 3 weeks now lol. Was driving b class trucks for 15yrs, just up and changed jobs. Be safe out there.
@frederickoning191
2 жыл бұрын
Great story! Good for you. The videos are well done and areas well chosen. I appreciate what you do --- and now am inspired by your story. It's never too late to realize a dream and start something entirely new!
@Myn6211
2 жыл бұрын
Love riding shotgun with you where ever that rig of yours is headed Gary.Thank you for making these videos and for helping to keep the goods moving. Stay safe out there.
@SpykersB
2 жыл бұрын
Yeahhhh he speaks! Lol. 👏🏻 good for you on your new career! You do what ya gotta do! I like the way you drive and enjoy your drives, it’s like getting out ‘virtually’ lol. 🍻
@lennyt-man4229
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Garry new to your channel. Cool your driving at 63 and awesome videos u have. Have a buddy who's still driving at 78 and has a day cab here in Winnipeg. I go with him when he gets out of town trips. I used to drive on the road with small freight stuff all over the Prairies and in Northwest Ontario. Did get one trip too Vancouver once back in 2011 and wow amazing it was driving through the Rockies for the first time in late October. Watching your videos there in BC makes me miss driving. Well enjoy your new career driving out there Gary, I did it for about 20 years till 2012 when my health got bad and now can't drive anymore.
@timothywhite5606
2 жыл бұрын
thank you I'm 63 got my CDL 2020 but never went further with it because of my age and afraid to i think there's lot of us feel that way because of age all the tips help with it just that there so many crazy drivers. I'm thinking about go with Schneider because heard really good with safely which will help which in way i work is safely first more likey will do this in couple month few things got to do at home. more tips i think will help.
@katzcrow640
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for Sharing I so Enjoy your Videos. You are an Amazing Man.
@-drakeypants-556
2 жыл бұрын
I hear it’s common for older people to get into trucking because the industry is so good. My dad is 60 just had a heart attack now wants to do full OTR. Good luck man love your videos
@evelken-evel8513
2 жыл бұрын
I am very happy for you. I will see you out there some day. I am 60 and soon will retire to trucking. Kenny.
@2020HotShotTruckingLLC
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 61 and have been running flatbed hotshot for a little over 2 years. I'm in my final week of CDL school. No immediate plans, but will be looking to buy a stepdeck in the next few years.
@allartvogelesang316
2 жыл бұрын
thank you for your videos. The only problem is they are too short 🙂
@simonblanchet7336
2 жыл бұрын
This is so good for you if you can get back to work and enjoy it. I think the mentality need to change. Espescially with the labor shortage. You are doing exactly what I've been tolding my wife I want we do when we retire from our office job (we are in the 40's). She will be good for retirement around 60, which is a bit too soon to just stop IMO. I don't intend to stay home and watch tv 14hours a day. I'm from Quebec. I would definetively move to BC and start doing what you do for my retirement job (in 20years). The west coast is less harsh than the east coast (the Coq can be brutal) . Keep up the video coming. Show us everything that seem interesting, or not, even the odd like truck stop or walk around, traffic jam, unloading stories, when you got lost ... with short 5-10min videos. I've started to watch a few others like JustTruckin or RidingWithDave (which his trucking with is wife).
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
Before I started trucking I was watching riding with Dave - before he was with his girlfriend
@sergebrunet4218
2 жыл бұрын
Hi ! I m from Quebec also ! i m a retired trucker ! i started at 28 years old doing local work for agencies in Montreal and then i bought my first truck one year after. it was 1986 . I started driving for Big Wheels transport from P.E.I. and was hauling potatoes from the Island to Quebec and Ontario . 2 1/2 years later I sold the truck ( 1985 Mack R model w/350 econodyne Engine and a small sleeper 54 inches ! LoL . I drove from coast to coast and Yukon and N.W.T. also ! In 2008 there was a recession and i was looking for a decent job but there wasn t anything good for me. After 1 year i was getting desperate and i found a good job in Edmonton AB. So i moved all my things there at a female driver s house in Alberta beach, AB. around 70 km. from Edmonton ! then we started driving together ( team ) delivering groceries to Whitehorse Yukon and back empty to Edmonton . then i drove alone since she moved to Vancouver and 1 year later i changed Companies and did many different jobs going all over Alberta. BC. and N.W.T. delivering explosives for the mines up there ! See my truck in the logo ? that was back in the 90s in Montreal ! if you wan t to see it bigger ! just click on it and you can watch some of my trucking trips ! I do that so people can see what the western roads looks like ! Same roads and same kind of truck than Gary ! LoL funny ! but i onlty have 16 subscribers ! that s crazy ! ? I watch his videos and reminds me of many trips ! if you watch my vids ! leave some comments ! that s all i m asking ! see around and Gary take care ! I like when you say something in your vids ! right ?
@GhanaIncorporated
2 жыл бұрын
Your videos remind me of one of the very early trucker KZitemrs there ever was Trucker Tom (TomWiles)... amazing scenery from his many trips... until he took a detour with his channel. Thanks for sharing your journeys with us!
@claudem.p.7969
2 жыл бұрын
Hi I am 65 and probably get my licence class 1 end of April. Even if I have a company and it is doing not bad. I want to let other run it. So in my truck looking at the landscape.
@gorillagoldhunters
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@tw-ym8zr
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think you realize that people would love to see what happens when you start the day, drive through customs etc, off load, finish your day, besides all the places you get to see .... all sorts of things about this life.
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like I need to add this - thanks
@cb-gz1vl
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a computer programmer and an 59 I want to switch to driving. I figure both professions have you sit on your butt. Nice to see they accept older people as drivers.
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
I was actually a program manager for computers until I retired in 2018
@cb-gz1vl
2 жыл бұрын
@@garysviewtruckingandscener7207 Yeah that stuff just burns me out at some point and I LOVE to drive. Heck I'll get in my car and do an 8 hour drive just to visit friends.
@carlogal2657
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, as a mechanical engineer, I plan to drive a truck when I hit 58. Then maybe if all works out, I plan to buy my own truck.
@sergebrunet4218
2 жыл бұрын
A rookie in the Rockies ! LoL great job ! patience is a vertue ! you don t say where you are ? let me guess ! you re on # 5 not far from Merritt BC. ! ? am i close ? LoL just guessing ! that could be anywhere ! hey ! keep trucking be safe and ps : let me know where that was ! please ?
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
I was just north of the snow shed on Hwy 5 and on the hill approaching the coquihalla summit
@lorenemeyer1409
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Gary, Been waiting for a new uploaded trip. Hope everything is fine with you and that you are keeping safe. Are you still driving?
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for staying in touch - I am off right now on disability as I was diagnosed with kidney cancer - they have removed one kidney and lymph nodes - so now I have to get form of chemo - so I feel pretty good but I can’t drive right now - thanks for asking
@lorenemeyer1409
2 жыл бұрын
@@garysviewtruckingandscener7207 oh dear! Well know we are thinking about you and wishing you a speedy recovery. I am sure your wife is taking good care of you. Take it easy and we all wish you the best!
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
@@lorenemeyer1409 thank you
@catsbyondrepair
2 жыл бұрын
Lol it's illegal to drive past 60
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
As Long as you pass your medical every year you can drive forever
@catsbyondrepair
2 жыл бұрын
@@garysviewtruckingandscener7207 bup wrong fmsca says it is 60 when it is a mandatory retirement
@garysviewtruckingandscener7207
2 жыл бұрын
@@catsbyondrepair no mandatory retirement in Canada - you must pass a medical every year
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