Arrow Transportation in British Columbia info

To my knowledge Arrow Trucking out of Tulsa, OK is not in Canada. They run Canada but no terminals there. You must be talking about another company named Arrow. I may be wrong but I dont think so.

 

It is another company. They run a lot of chip trucks out of Kamloops and mine trucks out of Logan Lake. Drivers on these runs are home every night or two but not for long. I was leased on to them in 62 in the Yukon. They were a good company, still not bad but like everyone else gone downhill.

 

My information is a bit outdated. CF used to run an interchange out of Cache Creek and there was a couple of other LTL carriers. Is Vankam still in business? They used to make daily runs out of Vancouver to the interior. Chambers runs chip trucks from all over the interior but I hear they are slowing down. Have you tried over by Williams Lake? They were looking for drivers for bug kill harvest west of Williams Lake last year.

Where does your family log at? I spent many years logging, Ft. Nelson, Watson Lake, Terrace, Prince George, !00 Mile House, Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, and every inlet on the coast from Washington to Alaska. I got out of it years ago. So many of the valley bottoms had been creamed and the season was getting shorter every year from being chased out by snow.

When I was 16 I was setting chokers when a log came down and broke my leg. I was working in camp. They didn't want me to go on compensation and told me if I stated in camp they would put me on light duty at full pay. They looked around and decided a good light duty job was riding in the log trucks. Three weeks later when my leg was better a drivers job came open. We were running twin wooden spar trees with a hot and cold deck in the middle. I didn't know much about driving after three weeks being a passenger but I knew everything I wanted to know about climbing a mile up those sidehills every morning and night. The rest as they say is history.

Don't be a stranger and let us know what you find. Best of luck.

 

Sorry to hear about your Grandpa. Don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting any of your family. Logging is like trying to make a dead horse fort. Timber companies are in control and use that control to bludgeon the contractors. We used to get paid when we delivered, now the mills are paying when they use the logs which could be 6 months or longer. Hauling rates are lower with 8 axles then we used to get for 5 axles. Everything is rush-rush-rush. Look at the fatalities in the industry, especially in the Prince George-Vanderhoof-Ft. St. James area. There will ge a fair amount of work the next 5-10 years on bug kill but it will be bad after that. I still own land at Lone Butte and would move back there if the outlook was better. I still miss logging. It gets in your blood.

 

Get an education or trade and stick with it. I'm glad my career is ending and not beginning. I feel for young people today. They have so many problems I never had to worry about. I was blessed to get in on some mega projets, MacKenzie, Hudsons Hope, the opening up of Francois Lake. A lot of people made huge amounts of money on these jobs and ended up corrupted by the money. They figured they should make that kind of money the rest of their lives and wouldn't put on their boots for under $30/hr. Used to run into them all the time in the North, sitting in bars mooching drinks and collecting welfare.