Nova Scotia Gets a Bump Start from BC

Working together. Solving problems.

Screen capture from a video recorded by Guy in the impound lot. His Mack is in the center, beside his friend Mike’s yellow Freightliner.

When Guy, the Nova Scotia owner of the vintage Mack, went to retrieve it from the impound lot a week after it was seized by police, he had trouble getting it going. It was February, and everything was frozen.

His truck needed some help, which was provided by Bern, the trucker from northern British Columbia with the 40-foot “Mandate freedom” sign on the back.

Guy, Sam the mechanic, and Bern ran a chain between the two trucks. Then Bern bomb started/bump started the Mack by pulling it around the yard for a few minutes at low speed. It’s the same principle as rolling a car downhill until the engine catches.

This was a small matter. It lasted ten, maybe fifteen minutes. Yet it’s emblematic of what happened in Ottawa. Ordinary people, from different parts of the country, helping each other out. Solving problems.