Connecting You To The Ice Road
Want to talk a real "Ice Road Trucker" try talking to the "Real Ice Road Truckers"
I know these boys drive on a road of ice over the water with depth of +/_ 100 ft deep. I love watching the show just to see how they do things in different parts of this country. They make one hell of a good show as long as Hugh stays on there, there will always be a great show. There are people like Hugh all over the place hell I've been compared to him. (A Hard-ass Asshole)
Well let me tell you how it is here in Maine. I'll Start in our first season which is spring. Spring is one hell of a slippery mess in the woods the roads become worse than ice, the mud constantly is trying to pull you in the ditch. You might be traveling along and bang there one of your wheels has feel into a frost hole that wasnt there at first the weight of the front of truck knocked the top layer in and then you come with the rear and then BANG your trailer is practically airborn you best hold on.
In the summer when the road dries out for about 2.5 months you have all the tourists to content with you can be traveling along and rounding a corner and bam right in front of you some damn tourist doing about 10 mph. Along with that you have dust that is everywhere blinding you it's like trying to look through really a coffee straw it practically blinds you.
Then we have the fall granted its pretty and all but again you have the tourists and it starts to get wet again with the rain and freezing and thawing.
Well then we have the real bitch of a season winter to start with it starts to get cold roughly 30's at first then they drop as we go we had temps of -48 with a windchill of -78 this year. On top of that we have the snow which creates a real mess until the ground completely freezes. After the ground freezes the road turns completely ice. Well then there is the snow which again will blind you(Complete White Out) not these like gustings they call white outs. We have storms that drop upwards of 2.5-3 ft at a time. I would like to see those boys drive in this. Along with the snow you have the plows trying to keep up with the roads. When you meet another truck you have roughly 6 inches if your lucky between the two. I think they have gravy compared to our roads.
Can show pics later if you ask.
Well let me tell you how it is here in Maine. I'll Start in our first season which is spring. Spring is one hell of a slippery mess in the woods the roads become worse than ice, the mud constantly is trying to pull you in the ditch. You might be traveling along and bang there one of your wheels has feel into a frost hole that wasnt there at first the weight of the front of truck knocked the top layer in and then you come with the rear and then BANG your trailer is practically airborn you best hold on.
In the summer when the road dries out for about 2.5 months you have all the tourists to content with you can be traveling along and rounding a corner and bam right in front of you some damn tourist doing about 10 mph. Along with that you have dust that is everywhere blinding you it's like trying to look through really a coffee straw it practically blinds you.
Then we have the fall granted its pretty and all but again you have the tourists and it starts to get wet again with the rain and freezing and thawing.
Well then we have the real bitch of a season winter to start with it starts to get cold roughly 30's at first then they drop as we go we had temps of -48 with a windchill of -78 this year. On top of that we have the snow which creates a real mess until the ground completely freezes. After the ground freezes the road turns completely ice. Well then there is the snow which again will blind you(Complete White Out) not these like gustings they call white outs. We have storms that drop upwards of 2.5-3 ft at a time. I would like to see those boys drive in this. Along with the snow you have the plows trying to keep up with the roads. When you meet another truck you have roughly 6 inches if your lucky between the two. I think they have gravy compared to our roads.
Can show pics later if you ask.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Freeman Sr on -
Go drive the Dalton for a trip or two and then tell us again how tough it is in Maine.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Mason on
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What a road!!! I made the remark I would go there but only to dispatch! That rollercoaster section is something else. I really didn't think the Artic ice of Canada could be topped, but, this definitely does! Tim, I don't think there is anything here in the lower 48 could even come close to this road. Totally on the edge of my seat the entire show which always seems to go so fast because you're so engrossed in the show you lose track of the time. $120,000 plus could never even come close to getting me to drive that road. I dare say I wouldn't do it for all the money in the world. This is going to be one very interesting season! Take care, Chris
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Permalink Reply by Boneyard on -
Tim you are absolutly correct. I was going on the past two years. This road thier on now is 100% more dangerous then the past two.
Only an idiot couldn't see that. Alot of that road reminds me of what we drive on. There are lakes, mountains, and cliffs. As far as the rollercoaster there is no such section in the bottom 48 like it.
I love to live on the edge. I would love to give this road a shot. I mean even I can roll a truck over if a (30yr trucking vet) rookie Dalton driver can do it so can I. What the hell I've only done it for 10yrs now.
I would deff. raise my life insurance.
THIS YEAR IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Tim Freeman Sr on
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Hey you guys
Just wait. The roller coaster actually is just the 2 hills, but there is a whole bunch of them that are just as wild.
I agree, this is gonna be good. Im loading for Prudhoe in Edmonton later this week, loading in Illinois to Edmonton tomorrow or the next day. Dont forget the CVSA Saturation the next 72 hours. Later, Tim
Boneyard said:Tim you are absolutly correct. I was going on the past two years. This road on now is 100% more dangerous then the past two.
Only an idiot couldn't see that. Alot of that road reminds me of what we drive on. There are lakes, mountains, and cliffs. As far as the rollercoaster there is no such section in the bottom 48 like it.
I love to live on the edge. I would love to give this road a shot. I mean even I can roll a truck over if a (30yr trucking vet) rookie Dalton driver can do it so can I. What the hell I've only done it for 10yrs now.
I would deff. raise my life insurance.
THIS YEAR IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Boneyard on
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Presently I'm hauling winmill pieces from the coast of Maine to Mars Hill. Which is in Northern Maine we are about 1 mile from Canada. I must say pay is great but what a pain in the ass. Trying to get a load of ship masts going to California. Trying to get a break of woods. Right now wood cutting is slow. I would love to fall into a job up in Seattle for the Rygard boys. Figures Crossed.
Tim Freeman Sr said:Hey you guys
Just wait. The roller coaster actually is just the 2 hills, but there is a whole bunch of them that are just as wild.
I agree, this is gonna be good. Im loading for Prudhoe in Edmonton later this week, loading in Illinois to Edmonton tomorrow or the next day. Dont forget the CVSA Saturation the next 72 hours. Later, Tim
Boneyard said:Tim you are absolutly correct. I was going on the past two years. This road on now is 100% more dangerous then the past two.
Only an idiot couldn't see that. Alot of that road reminds me of what we drive on. There are lakes, mountains, and cliffs. As far as the rollercoaster there is no such section in the bottom 48 like it.
I love to live on the edge. I would love to give this road a shot. I mean even I can roll a truck over if a (30yr trucking vet) rookie Dalton driver can do it so can I. What the hell I've only done it for 10yrs now.
I would deff. raise my life insurance.
THIS YEAR IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Shordy on -
Ok are you an ice road trucker? I did read your post, ok, I'm blonde, but I did read it. Hughe's a big baby compared to Alex. Get a load of his necklace LOL!
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Permalink Reply by Shordy on
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Another thing is how Hugh talked about the other truck drivers coming from "down south" to help take care of the rest of the loads. He dogged them, they were there to get the loads finished, he couldn't do it all, they had to hire it out. Why not gripe to the people that hired them, not the truck drivers! Not everyone is an Ice Road Trucker, that just showed how stupid he is. They were there to make money and get the loads out.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Freeman Sr on
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I run back and forth to the lower 48, Ive only made about 20 or so trips to Prudhoe, but I have worked on sections of the road for a month or 2 at a time pulling a belly or side dump on construction projects up there.
Shordy said:Ok are you an ice road trucker? I did read your post, ok, I'm blonde, but I did read it. Hughe's a big baby compared to Alex. Get a load of his necklace LOL!
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