Wednesday, July 22, 2020
I worked with Mike off and on for nearly 20 years. When I first moved back from Ontario and started driving truck in Cranbrook Mikey' O was my first cross shift driving Jack chisholm's cabover. Later after Mike bought his own truck and things got slow Mike hired me as his first and as far as I know only employee to help me get through the winter. I believe it was the winter of 97 we had something like six feet of snow on the ground it was a terrible year for all truck drivers trying to make a living yet Mike still managed to scrape together a Christmas bonus for me even though I knew he was suffering financially. It meant a lot to me at the time. Then in 2006 when I took the plunge and bought my own truck Mike had lots of useful advice towards helping me to be an owner operator. I'm going to miss our little bs sessions whenever we ran into each other in public. My condolences to the family he was a great guy.
Rob Beam