we need drivers in northern bc

Watch the Alaska Highway being built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ThlIabKgnM

 

ive been driving auto only for the last 2yrs off road mountains...they work perfectly.

 

Which transmission rzl? I have heard some are okay and some terrible. Curios which you have.

 

Prairie Boy-WOW! That old KW brings back memories-my first truck was a 51 of Al Ghezzi's-220 Cummins, 4&3, 3013's-no sleeper, of course, but I got pretty good and curling up around the sticks-hammock under the trailer or sleeping bag on the ground when it got warmer. Sleeping on the floorboards of an Emeryville was like living in a condo after that! Good video of the Alaska Highway! A lot of changes-seems like the only thing that hasn't changed is the frost heaves between Burwash and 1202. I was with Lynden before the Alaska West days-aren't they the non-Teamster side of Lynden? Here's some interesting reading-Google "Gene Rogge-Alaska" and" Letourneau VC-22 snow freighter". Reads like the rogue's gallery of early northern trucking! So much to talk about-guess it will have to be 2 cups!

 

6 spd allison in 90% of the trucks
18 spd ultrashift in the rest

ride the brakes alot in the 6 speeds(its all mountain switchbacks), but have never lost control cuz of auto transmission

 

Don't the Allisons come with a retarder?? The loggers have the Retarder and Engine brake on theirs.

 

He drove forward on them and shot them out the backside.

 

no such luck here.

just the engine brake that doesnt hold the 80000kg

 

So he spun out and slid down backwards into a jack knife position and drove FORWARD onto a set...

You're full of #####

 

I wish I had that much traction to drive forward when I couldnt get going again on an icey hill. I backed onto both sets, still wouldn't budge. Ended up getting a winch tractor to winch me up,