World Volume 2, Issue 11

September, 2015

Blast From The Past

Did you Know?

58% of all U.S. freight to and

from Canada is carried by

truck.

Between July 7, 2014 and

July 7, 2015, the price of die-

sel fuel dropped an average

of $0.22.

Overall cost for trucking in-

creased by 3.3% April 2014 to

April 2015.

Orders for trucks decreased

June 2014 to June 2015 by

25%

In sports the word “Dynasty” gets thrown around a little

too easily. Sure the Edmonton Oilers had a pretty good

run winning five Stanley Cups between 1984 and 1990.

The Montreal Canadiens got lucky and won five Cups in

five years 1955-1960. Tiger Woods, who used to be a

golfer, won seven tournaments in a row in 2007.

Not bad but these streaks are mere footnotes in sports

history compared the incredible, inconceivable and unbe-

lievable achievement of Cassidy’s 2 who repeated their

shocking upset win at this year’s Community Living Associ-

ation’s Golf Tournament.

Once again the Team credited their history making repeat

win to hard

work, clean

living, unsul-

lied morals

and, of course,

Jesus.

The World’s award winning team of investigative reporters are not

so sure. The World is chasing leads claiming rampant steroid use

among Cassidy’s 2 team members. Looking at their toned, athletic

bodies, it is not hard to believe they are on the “juice” but at press

time the World has not been able to confirm...or disprove...doping

allegations.

The World wonders about the horse in the lower right.

Cassidy’s 2 Rules

Gerry Mansveld presents the hardware to Team Cassidy’s

2, Dale Robinson, Mark Robinson, Mike Summers and Dan

Robinson. In this picture the Team has just spotted Marcel

Chaput’s “I-wish-you-would-just-die” face in the front row.

Cassidy’s 2 in 2014 (Editor’s note: Is

“Cassidy’s 2” the best name you can come

up with? Are you even trying?)

This Year’s Strange Moving Story

The World doesn’t know what it is about movers,

but it seems that they are always responsible for

every year’s weirdest story. This year it involves

an Armstrong driver who was stopped at the

Irving Big Stop before coming to our office to

load. While in the shower, his helper, Neil Ryan,

45 from Huntsville, stole his truck and started

driving away. He made it to Mackay St. near

Cassidy’s, before he was pulled over after hitting

a utility pole and a fire hydrant. The officer soon

discovered the truck was stolen. Mr. Ryan is

facing several charges including impaired driving

(at 8 am!) as well driving with a suspended li-

cense, driving with an improper license, taking a motor vehicle without con-

sent and failure to remain. He will appear in court on October 5th. The Arm-

strong tractor and trailer were seized for seven days but eventually the police

released the trailer allowing the driver to carry on.

Marcel Chaput submitted this

photo of an ironically damaged

“Wide Turn” warning sign on

the stolen trailer.

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The month is the same as last month.

I’m pissed at drivers who don’t report

damage. This month a totally

wrecked tarp showed up in the Dr.

Tarp rack and no one seems to know

how it got there. If you report I know

what is causing the damage and can

let dispatch know when they send a

truck in. So man up. Yes, if its your

fault you will be held accountable but

if it is the nature of the freight, we can

plan ahead and avoid the expense.

We ask Brian Lehman, Safety & Com-

pliance Supervisor what’s he is pissed

about this month.

Tip-of-the-Hat

Melissa Nieman

This summer’s moving season has been

one of the busiest ones in Cassidy’s histo-

ry. Getting crews equipped and to the

jobsite has always been a challenge in

busy times and it was not uncommon for

crews to arrive at the jobsite late in the

morning. Not this year though. Melissa

Nieman took on the job of yard boss and

made sure crews were loaded and gone

as soon as possible. It wasn’t always a

popular thing to do, but Melissa changed

the morning ritual from a social scene to a

business. Thanks for a great job Melissa!

JCC Does It Again

J.C. Chiasson reported to Terry Schueneman that he

had room for one skid so naturally Terry sent him to

load 12’ of freight. Once again JCC made it happen

sending an email to Terry saying simply: “All in”.

Driver Picture of the Month

Andrew Wickware submitted these and other great pictures

on August 19 saying: “I’ll trade four wheeler for tank traffic

any day!”

Having a Ball in Specialized

Operations (Get it?)

Randy Roesler took this highly unauthorized picture of

Nicole Kosmack, Bonnie Armour and Jodi Moore

(collectively known as the brains behind our Specialized

Operations) on August 20.

Terry Schueneman submitted this load, the first of

nine, going from London to Petawawa on Aug. 13.

Dave Beck with gar-

age guys Nathan,

Isaac and Randy

along with Marc

Clouthier worked

overtime to prepare

the double drop for

this oversize load.

Nice work guys!. We

will miss you Shrek.

Joe McLeod, last

month’s Tip-of-

the-Hat subject is

now working on

the flat bed trail-

ers. Please help

him by keeping

the equipment

boxes neat..

Jim Buchannan found a warehouse full of beer on

August 13 saying: “Looks like I have to stay for the

weekend.”

While on vacation,

Dan Robinson add-

ed a new character

to Jim Buchannan’s

travelling col-

leagues. Jimmy has

named his new

trucking buddy

”Justin Beaver”. He

told Dan: “look, he

loves Timmies!” For

his own sake, the

World hopes Justin

is a Senators fan.