[Rathji]

30 hours straight.

I worked from 6am one day to noon the next day last year while we were moving a house. We had to set no parking signs all along the route, got back to pull the house out onto the road and we had some serious issues and we finished at 9pm, we had a 2 hour break for dinner but I had to drive back to the yard to pick up some equipment. We had to do the move that night because we had police escort, power company etc booked and paid for.

The first 14 hours were pretty hard work, putting supports in, doing demo etc. Once the pilot driving began it was less work, because we only had to run up and down the street to guide the house between the trees on 19th St NW. We took that house from Brair Hill up 19th to John Laurie, down John Laurie to Shaganappi, up Shag to Country Hills, North into Hidden Valley and beyond, cut across at Balzac where the railway crossing stuff was only 2 inches larger than the actual house, and then around the east side of the city to south of Strahmore. We got the house to the property at 10am, so thats about 12 hours of straight driving/running up and down the road, then it took us 2 hours to unload the house so we could go home.

That night, we got up and did another smaller move. All told, I worked over 90 hours that week and my invoice for that 2 week period was for over billing over 140 hours.