Pipe to Alaska

So what route did you end up going?

 

Big Red, Glad to read the trip went well. Safe trvels ack down to the lower 48 as they call it.
Nice pics also

 

I have done that trip twice and I turned another one to go up there down yesterday. I don't get to go when it is nice outside. Always the winter for me. The first picture is in Northern BC on my first trip and the second is in Northern Alaska on my second trip up there.

 

Liked your pics a lot!!!

I've been up there twice. Both times for the Navy to relocate someone. I pull a flatbed and took two PODS and a car both times. I got paid my good rate to go up there and the same to come back empty PLUS 500 more paid miles once I got back into the U.S. and to a place that paid better.

Stocked up my truck to the MAX so I didn't have to buy much for food and other stuff. I went up in early Spring and saw some dead moose in the break down lane. Well, I thought they were dead until I yanked my air horn and they lifted their head up. Someone told me they like the warm tar. The bears are pretty smart. They hear you coming and wait till you pass then they run across the road.

I pulled off the side one night. I have an overhead vent fan. Was cooking fried onions, mushrooms, peppers and steak and heard something outside after I was done. I can't tell the difference but there was 3 wolves or coyotes roaming around outside. I rolled down the window and they bolted but came right back. Then I got scared thinking about a bear coming around so I ate, rolled down the windows to air out the truck then picked another spot.

 

355km up highway 37 is where my work had a project since October. We were building part of the new hydro towers you prob saw up there. The drive really sucks in the winter!

Me a couple days ago at one of the brake checks. Glad you had a good trip!

 

Mr. NHater, never misses a chance to show off his rig lol

 

in canada there is rule about kingpin to first trailer axle.. i believe it is 41 feet

 

In Canada provinces regulate the trailer wheelbase (the distance between the kingpin centre and the trailer turn centre, or axle group centre). In Alberta the trailer wheelbase on a legal tractor semi-trailer combination can be no less than 6.5 m (21.33 ft) and no more than 12.5 m (41.01 ft). I'm not going to post the info for every province as they will all be close enough; for example, BC is 6.25 m/12.5 m, etc.

 

Just to make it more confusing when you have a wheelbase longer than 244" in BC you will need an over length permit for the truck and it will shorten the allowed wheelbase from your trailer.