Running produce to Alaska

The first time you use the bumper it pays for itself and on the other hand if I spent about $3500.00 on a moose bumper and will never have to use it that would be perfectly fine too. A friend of mine has a Herd bumper and it saved his hood when a guy backed into the bumper at a truck stop. The second time the bumper saved his bacon big times when he tried to make a turn in Fairbanks and his truck went straight on the ice. The lower bar caught the curb and made his truck turn instead of jumping the traffic island and hitting on of those monstrous traffic signal poles that covers three travel lanes plus turn lanes into each direction.

The lower bars on the Herd's are nice since they prevent the animal from going under the truck, but those are pretty low to the ground and I used to scrap curbs when you had to get around traffic islands. One of the Alaska trucks caught a frost heave with his and pretty much ripped the bumper of the frame.

 

After all this talk of hitting stuff a friend of mine just hit a moose on the Tok cutoff. The kicker is that he just bought a brand new Western Star and he was heading back on his first trip North. The moose actually ran into the side of the truck and banged up the little side door in the sleeper and wiped out the quarter fender. The trailer corner finished off the moose. It smashed the reefer status panel and left about a 15' long moose poop pin stripe down the side of the trailer.

I just finished my reset and should have a load of fish going back here this evening or tomorrow morning.

 

These days one has to hurry that the fresh fish is not smoked by the time it gets delivered. I stopped in the Canyon South of Lytton and it felt like a blast oven. My outside temperature gauge was showing between 92 and 97 degrees at ten o'clock at night. I was driving into a head wind that was blowing at 20 to 30 mph or more. I needed to be hooked up to an iron lung after I got back to Washington.

 

Seeing high 80's up there makes you wonder and specially when you come into Houston. Maybe I did take a wrong turn and got the whole North South thing screwed up.