Where is everyone #5

I like gettin off the beaten path for sure. But 40 miles into the strip? C'mon man

 

What's with drivers flashing their ####ing high beams in your mirrors while passing lately? I'm not blind, I can clearly see you in my left mirror lol.

 

I don't know but the flashing of high beams from any pass drives me absolutely nuts.

 

I'm not saying it's foreigners, but it's foreigners.

Those MF'ers around here ride up someones ### and start flashing their lights and blowing the horn like it's some 3rd world country.

 

Exactly what one guy did. Morons.

 

Common occurrence at a wind farm or a rig move. Or 5X that distance in northern Canada. There are job sites in northern Saskatchewan where you enter map coordinates on your GPS because you are 200 miles away from the last place with a name.

For the guys that have never run northern Canada and the Territories: The major problem I ran into was there’s not many truck stops. Our fuel cards worked at FlyingJ, Husky and Shell gas stations. The majority of fuel stops are those Petro card lock things. I used my own debit cards for emergencies (fuel is always an emergency in these areas). 4500 trucks, running all of North America and they can’t figure out where to set up fuel accounts.

On the good side, there were some sites that were so remote that they would top your fuel tanks off as soon as you empty because they knew you wouldn’t make it back.

EDIT: I should have said Petro Can card lock to differentiate between the TA/Petro in the States.

 

I've delivered to places here in Wyoming that were pretty far off the edge of the map. One location was a solid eight hours from the time your steer tires left pavement til you got in and unloaded and got back to pavement. Only directions provided was GPS coordinates for the turnoff and the actual destination.

I've never been north of the 49th but I can only imagine how remote it is.

 

You don't even have to go very far north either. Just regular gas stations can be 2 or 3 hours apart in the BC interior.

 

Merry Christmas guys….

 

Merry Christmas Gentlemen.