Toughest logging routes in Canada

I've never driven a logging truck, but I've driven a number of logging roads in northern B.C. Perhaps roads off the Alaska Highway between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson... around Pink Mountain, Sikanni Chief, Wonowon, et al. Also, west and north of Prince George.

I assume you're there and not here, so if you need someone to go do on-the-ground research I'm your man.

 

I know out here in BC there are some crazy logging roads, especially on northern Vancouver Island. Several areas where your truck gets pushed, pulled or both by d9 Cats to get up and down the steep hills. I driven many of them, but pretty much all the loads hauled out of the bush are around only couple of hour trips at the most. The more loads pulled out of the bush the more they get paid for the smaller trucks that can run on public roads that is, for the most part the big fatboy drivers get paid by the hour unless they are owner ops contracted to the big companies. For the most part there aren't really long trips along these roads just a few hours each way at most.

 

log hauler - "Bulldozer operator with his brains kicked out"
so I hear
not sure what that would make a ice road driver?

 

Freezing caused them to became Brain Dead.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPuxlODhiFM&feature=related


http://www.hankstruckpictures.ca/hayes4.htm

 

HI Andy. You might like to contact some of the logging companies that are logging on the remote BC coast. Crews are flown in etc. Some of the logging roads that need to be built are really hairy. We have spar trees, A-frame logging-all sorts of stuff for the steep mountain sides. One road that was wildly hair that was built several decades ago now was on the island north of Cracroft Island. Looking at it from the mountain top behind Port Harvey on Cracroft Island, I was amazed that any truck got up it, much less a trucker getting it down, alive. We visited the family that had the logging show there several times from the logging company a couple of channels over, that we were at. That island would be just west of Minstrel Island. Used to take about two hours by boat to get around the islands, inlets, and channels to get a beer at Minstrel Island, if you ran out at the logging camp. A lot of the remote coast logging roads have to be blown out of the rock-hubby used to wander around with dynamite sticks in his back pocket when he was blowing road. Oddly enough, there are times when I would quite cheerfully kiss civilization good-bye and head back up to the Knights Inlet area. Mind you, Johnson Straits is a ##### if you get caught in a storm coming out of camp by boat. There is even a resort at Port Harvey on Cracroft Island now, so I have been told. You want steep, deep dangerous logging roads, check out the remote coast.

 

come on to ontario!

 

Those are not LOGGING roads in Ontario , I think they call them PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS.

 

Are you trying to make the next series of ice road truckers or whatever?