Stick or Round Wood Haulers-East or West

There's lots of logs moving in BC right now. I'll stick to fuel, much safer than logs for a little less money.

 

A friend of mine used to haul logs in northern Alberta, made good money when things were good, made nothing when things weren't good. Never got flown in or out.

 

we finished all our work, just trying to help out elsewhere

 

Any job driving in the bush is dangerous. I saw a log truck on its roof a few weeks ago. Paved roads don't have 20% grades. Paved roads aren't single lane with blind corners and no guard rail. Highway trucks don't usually need to be dragged up hills with skidders. I had an uncle who died when his pickup slid off a single lane wooden bridge with no guard rail. My grandfather was brain damaged from being hit on the head working in the bush. It doesn't have anything to do with flash points. Any job in the bush is more dangerous than being on the highway.

 

Plus most lease roads are built to take a rig going in and out and are built to a good general standard.
Logging roads are generally slashed into the hills willy nilly across the path of the yarder and are just crap, bulldozed out of dirt with no gravel or attention to grades.

I concur, oil in general is less stressful and dangerous.