Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1988 – ’89
“Getting fired was not easy but getting laid off was a risk in a trucking job that was largely dependent on the auto industry; then as now, it was feast or famine.”
I RETIRED during 2021 after working 33 years in the trucking industry. My first trucking job was driving car carriers for Maris Transport, a long-defunct company that was based in Oakville, Ontario. It was only a stone’s throw from Ford of Canada’s Oakville Assembly Plant and Ontario Truck Plant.
It began when I earned my Class-A license at the age of 25 on April 20, 1988, after which I started working for Maris on June 20. At the time, there
