BC brake check stations

I don’t recall any where you actually had to stop. Although been over 20 years last time our. They were widening highway at Golden BC that trip. Bout friggin time!

 

The mandatory brake checks are marked as such and use a regulatory sign (white sign with black and/or red markings). Green signs give directions and distance. Yellow signs are advisory; their instructions are not mandatory, but if something happens as a result of not following the sign the driver is more likely to be charged.

http://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/Documents/drivers3.pdf

If you have not stopped at the Ten Mile Hill brake check (east of Golden; 51°16'23.3"N 116°45'31.4"W), you were in violation. There is at least one regulatory sign (the top one in the picture below) followed by several direction signs for the brake check.

 

I believe the westbound brake check east of Field is not mandatory as well.

 

There is another mandatory one westbound at Illecillewaet (east of Revelstoke; 51°10'45.4"N 117°45'51.3"W).

 

i always heard the green signed ones were green because they were in the national park.

no idea on truth of that.

company wanted us to stop at those, so i did.

from memory westbound, field, golden, albert canyon, the one top of merritt, zopkios

eastbound, the one before kamloops, the kamloops scale

thats all i remember

 

theres a slope westbound somewhere near rogers that has a heckuva ride, found it strange there was no brake check there, it had a womans name

 

You are on the money, company policy for me, has always been to stop at all of them. I had a level 1 in Golden this summer, and they told me regardless of the sign, they're all mandatory. Fellow driver skipped Albert Canyon, got Level 1 in Hope and was fined $1500.00. CVSE are usually camped out in Merrit & Zopkios. They have camera's on the Inks Lake one (before Kamloops) and nail guys at the Scale all the time for not stopping (They're pretty sensitive in Kamloops about Brake Checks).

Regardless of all that, I would stop and do a proper brake check. Had some weird #### happen, tires go flat between Inks Lake and Kamloops, had a brake pod split and lock up a wheel coming into Zopkios; BC mountains are hard on ####.