Heya, This Canadian believes building a rapport with a scheduler can become your biggest advantage. I will ask for PAD; not as a lump sum but a little increase on all of my shops (even if over a few days). I recommend taking two weeks to plan a road trip in the fall when there are a lot of shops - I go solo, stay ultra organized, work ten hour days, try to include a food shop once a day, last year I made $1200 in an eight day/2800 km run, less gas, car rental, and motels. I call the schedulers who override the shop maximums to let them know I'm OK every couple of days, also they must keep adding shops. It helps keep me calm & focused too. For my Ontario road trip I work Dryden to Timmins along Hwy 11; Sudbury to Sarnia then back to Thunder Bay on Hwy 17. (Tools: a watch, laptop, gps, flash drive, digital camera, printed schedule, one envelope per day, knowledge of where to find scanners helps)