Running produce to Alaska

A lot have changed for sure. I miss the old coes. There is a guy in Canada that has a couple of K 100 KWs and I want to stop and see if I could talk him out of one. I started my driving career in Germany and that is all we had. I have wondered what it would be like to run one of the new European cabover trucks up North.

I run up Hwy 37 and than join the Alcan in Upper Liard at Junction 37. Some places are good and others are getting bad. The frost heaves are pretty bad in places right now. We had to run chains on the steers a couple times this winter since we had a lot of ice. I almost put the truck in the bushes on 37 this winter. It went from iffy to really bad real fast.

It takes me about three days from Tacoma to Anchorage. I don't think you could get much sleep in the bunk while bouncing down the roads. I have a friend that came up in the 50s with his dad with an old chain drive truck. He was the oiler.

 

I have considered having them rhino lined in silver, but I am not sure if it would stick to the aluminum. I guess they are sandblasted enough by now.

 

No truck stops in Anchorage. You can park behind Walmart at the Dimond Center Mall, I have done many resets at different Fred Meyers or Walmarts in town. On Muldoon behind Target and Lowes you can find parking at times and there are lots of stores and food places. There are more and more no overnight parking signs going up in town. If you head South there are some nice pullouts along Turnagain Arm. Essential One has a place down in Birdcreek with truck pumps and a place out back to park.

 

It's just like everywhere. People get tired cleaning up peoples trash and pee bottles and got fed up with having dropped trailers sitting in their parking lots. Also they have the barges and ships bringing most of the stuff up.