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Anybody want anything from Ontario?

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Utah is pppprrreeetttyyy!!
 
I'm surprised there is no snow there. Wikipedia says that Green River, UT, is at about 4,000 feet of elevation! I'm interested to see and hear where your route takes you next.

Craig
 
Hey Chicken , I may have fed you a red herring on the forecast for Ab. , They changed it last night to "possibility of 10 cm snow from central Ab. (Red Deer) on into the north" for Saturday.
 
How about another oilfield trucking story to give you something to ponder on your journey.

You are no doubt very familiar with the yearly CVI certification that is required by every commercial truck on the road now.
back when I was trucking heavy haul stuff, there was no CVI in Canada but it was a "thing" in the States that we had heard of. Eastern Canada (Ontario & Quebec) was the first to copy & implement this program here and wanted a "National Safety Program" that would be country wide. In Ab., the farmers & oilpatch fought this initiative vigorously...the farmers were successful (until the recent NDP govt.) but the Oilpatch haulers weren't...because of two brothers I knew quit well back then. It was rumored that one of the brothers name became very prominent at the policy meetings over the provincial CVI....
The two brothers were Randy & Steve B from Leduc and both pulled for a company out of Nisku called To-Tran. It was quit common for trucks to be sent out from a base with a load that would take them into some remote areas, once in these areas, truckers would rent rooms at the nearest rig camp and "short-haul" some hotshot loads from rig move to rig move until they could secure a back-haul all the way back to civilization.
This is what happened to the brothers, dispatched out of Nisku to a lease site close to Zama Lake ( very close to the NWT border). They remained at the rig camp for a week or so before they got a pipe haul back to Edmonton. A rig had got "stuck in the hole" and stretched their drill pipe when the "jars" went off. Drill pipe that is suspected of being stretched has to be all inspected at a pipe yard in Ed.
Randy & Steve both loaded one afternoon and the plan was to leave the camp together after breakfast the next morning (6 am).
There was one fly in the ointment for that plan...both brothers were sweet on the same bar maid at the Airliner peeler bar...It was quit a competition that the rest of us watched with amusement.
Randy decided sometime during the night that he didn't need his brothers interference back in town so decided to take action that would hold Steve back for a while...or so he thought.
Long before the planned wake-up call, Randy sneaks out of the camp to Steve's truck, unscrews the nut holding the steering wheel to the shaft, pulls the steering wheel out and heaves it as far as he can out into the deep snow in the bush, then starts his truck and heads for this lady, hoping for a "not to be interrupted" reunion.
Steve, hearing Randy's truck start says he immediately put 2 +2 together and heads out the door to catch his brother...but when he gets into his truck he is met with just a shaft spline sticking out of the steering column. Now Steve was raised on a farm & made his living since high school in the heavy construction & heavy hauling industries so he knew how to improvise with the best of them...he snapped two sets of vice grips to that spline as tight as he could get them...and hit the road, and this "road" is about 8-900 miles back to Edmonton with just vice grips to steer with.
He claims he was doing real good...until he hit an open scale house on 43 highway and the scale guy noticed something was amiss and flashed the "pull in & park, bring in your papers" light at him. Steve said he didn't have to "bring his papers in as requested, one of the scale DOT cops met him in the lot before he even got parked, quite interested in his steering arrangement . They pulled his licence, operating authority, and imponded the truck-trailer and load for some time until the legal ramifications were ironed out.
It was rumored that Steve's name was very prominent in the discussion over the oilfield request for a deferral from CVI...we didn't get very far.
It was also rumored that Christmas was a little "strained" for the brothers that year.
 
trlvn said:
I'm surprised there is no snow there. Wikipedia says that Green River, UT, is at about 4,000 feet of elevation! I'm interested to see and hear where your route takes you next.

Craig
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Once north of Albuquerque I was around 7000’ elevation for most of the day. I’m not really sure what elevation you get more snow? I can see snow on the taller peaks around me
 
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Saw this crazy thing by the aquarium in SLC. The band U2 used it on one of their tours, where it was purchased from. Shipped from PA out here where they’ll turn it into part of a new exhibit
 
Reminds me a little of the Thompson canyon in central BC, lots of colours in hills. Makes me want to go on a road trip again!

-frank
 
Going from Edmonton through Jasper was great, then I took Hwy 5 down to Kamloops one trip. GREAT scenery through there, and Hells Gate was good times. I forget what they said, I think it was 500 vertical feet drop from one side to the other side where you can walk around
 
Yeah, it is really nice country. I grew up in the Peace Country of northern BC so am no stranger to running those roads along the big rivers. And my mom absolutely loved the gentle hills of the Cariboo. I think that's part of what I like so much about your photos -- the open vistas seem so familiar. Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

-frank
 
So back up to when I went to Labrador. Spent Christmas with my family then drove back to the yard. Dispatch asked if I wanted to go to Chilliwack.

Sure. Where the heck is Chilliwack?

So off we go. This is Dec 28-29. Never been north of Sudbury before in my life let alone out west. Trucking all day the first day I got to Nipigon, just outside Thunder Bay. Got up to Brandon the next night, New Year’s Eve. I got looking around for something to do, this was my first holiday on the road. Turns out Brandon has a peeler bar, I wanted to go see how bad of an idea this was gonna be. Took a cab “downtown”, walked in paid the $10 cover and grabbed a beer. 10-15 minutes goes by....no dancers. Got chatting with a local the bar gave the girls the night off.

What the...?

Got trucking along, stopped somewhere before Calgary the next night. Ran it the rest of the way into Chilliwack the next night I think.

It was freezing cold all the way across Ontario and the prairies, -25 mostly, then I get into Chilliwack and it’s +7. That made no sense, Jan 3 and +7.

Delivered that morning, went to Abbotsford and rented a car. Drove up the coast to Whistler where it was back to -25. On the way back helped a lady change a flat tire on the side of the road

So in about a 3 week span I drove coast to coast in Canada

Part 1 :D
 
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