How Russians kill their trucks....

That's 3 minutes and 53 seconds of my time gone that I will never get back. What were they trying to accomplish in the video?

 

Jim.... it's just a video showing what Russian drivers do that Merican drivers would never do.

I had a feeling it was oil field work. That is some nasty terrain to go through. I do like the white 6x6 though.

 

Well it's not that we don't want to. If we drive like that, we face being fired, probably arrested, lawsuits, bad driving record entries, and we will never hear the end of it from the department of transportation and the environmental protection agency.

So many laws here!

 

Well that puts a little bumpy snow pack in western Montana into a whole different perspective! Impressive frame flex and twist on that one truck!

 

Those boys have much larger stones than I do...

 

Most definitely NOT somewhere to break down and call for a tow.

 

That's the same stuff we did in Desert Storm in '91. Instead of snow, it was mud bogs. March is the rainy season- so after a good rain comes a dry windstorm. The blowing dirt covers the waist deep mud. You're bouncing along on the desert.. when your front end starts getting lower and lower.. suddenly you're up to the fuel tanks in a mudbog. Downshift the air shifted 18 speed, flip the switch to lock the rears, back off the throttle for a second to lock 'em-keep the pedal on the floor and HANG ON !

I passed dozens of Uncle Sam's trucks stuck in the muck for ONE REASON. The Army taught soldiers that you must bring a tractor to a complete stop before engaging the differential lock. So- a soldier bogs down in mud and STOPS to engage the differential lock (It says "Do not engage with wheels spinning"). Then it won't move again. The Spec 4 that rode with me thought I was a "wild man" because I flipped the switch on the fly. He really thought something terrible was going to happen if he tried it. When it was his turn to blast through the mud he just downshifted without touching the diff lock so I called him "Spec 4 Chicken".

 

Spetznaz ice road truckers. lol