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Ice Road Truckers
PTHEIM
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I recently finished watching a marathon of the latest season of the show.
Something got me wondering. Why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars/day for vehicles, fuel, lodging, insurances, and income for personnel when there could be a small fleet of LCAC transports to move cargo during the winter months for the same price?
I mean a vehicle w/an 80 ton load capacity and can move it 300km at 35km/h over a questionable road surface. This would be better, no?
just a thought
Something got me wondering. Why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars/day for vehicles, fuel, lodging, insurances, and income for personnel when there could be a small fleet of LCAC transports to move cargo during the winter months for the same price?
I mean a vehicle w/an 80 ton load capacity and can move it 300km at 35km/h over a questionable road surface. This would be better, no?
just a thought
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He says look, its even got a bayonet and proceeds to unfold it.
He pulls a stripper clip out and loads it in his cab then he proceeds to shoot some oranges and a can of soup his so called survival food.
Some people just should not be allowed to have guns.
I will be watching it! I allways wanted to go drive the ice roads when I was still driveing truck!
I allways thought that would be the ultimate challenge for a truck driver!
It's a 500 mile journey on roads covered with ice that encompasses some of the most beautiful scenery in America.
Maintenance requirements may also be part of it...the darn thing is closer to an airplane in terms of stresses on engine components than it is to a truck.
Yep just looked it up.
quote:Load: 60 tons/75 ton overload (54/68 metric tons)
I wonder if the Canadian truckers spend all day on the internet moaning about how NAFTA has let Yankee truckers come in from south of the border to steal their jobs?
US truckers have allways been able to go up there to haul loads on those ice roads and have done so for many many years.
I at one time actually was going to look into doing it but figured it was not worth quiting one full time job to go for a seasonal job.
Now I wish I would have done it just to say I had.
quote:Originally posted by kristov
I wonder if the Canadian truckers spend all day on the internet moaning about how NAFTA has let Yankee truckers come in from south of the border to steal their jobs?
US truckers have allways been able to go up there to haul loads on those ice roads and have done so for many many years.
I at one time actually was going to look into doing it but figured it was not worth quiting one full time job to go for a seasonal job.
Now I wish I would have done it just to say I had.
A buddy of mine had the option of going. Wasn't worth the risk and time away from family, in his opinion.
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
quote:Originally posted by kristov
I wonder if the Canadian truckers spend all day on the internet moaning about how NAFTA has let Yankee truckers come in from south of the border to steal their jobs?
US truckers have allways been able to go up there to haul loads on those ice roads and have done so for many many years.
I at one time actually was going to look into doing it but figured it was not worth quiting one full time job to go for a seasonal job.
Now I wish I would have done it just to say I had.
A buddy of mine had the option of going. Wasn't worth the risk and time away from family, in his opinion.
At the time I was considering it I was single so family was not an issue.
As for the risk, it is actually a very small risk anymore as long as a driver uses his head. They have building those roads down to such a science now that they are actually pretty safe.
Back in the early days of those ice roads was a different story and many trucks did go through.