What is either the driver or truck lacking here?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by TomCougar, Nov 6, 2019.

  1. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    That's pretty much all of BC these days. They're not making any money. Wondering why Jim Pattison bought up Canfor's Canadian assets for $980 million though?
     
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  3. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    We usually show a little profit every year but some years it's darn little.
    The bean counters at the timber companies are absolute genius at paying just enough that we keep coming back every year but not enough to ever really get far enough ahead to feel independent.
    They like to keep us on a short leash.
    I'll quit whining. Nobody held a gun to my head and made me get into this business.
     
  4. TomCougar

    TomCougar Light Load Member

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    It looks like gravel roads need to be constructed for logging.
     
  5. TomCougar

    TomCougar Light Load Member

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    Yes, they do. I got my virtual Kenworth stuck in American Truck Simulator sometimes when making flatbed deliveries of iron pipe to construction sights. Uneven muddy ground. Pressing V to engage the diff lock helps a lot. Only the intermediate axle was driven on the game truck, which started out as an el-cheapo model, until I spent some money for an upgrade. Recently, I spent my game money to upgrade the chassis, $22,500, so I now have two rear drive axles on the classic KW day cab. I got into hauling heavy equipment from logging camps on dirt roads and my improved tractor with dual drives never slipped once.
     
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  6. Truemac

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    You ever hear of the game SpinTires? They made a driving simulator where the entire premise is you getting the truck stuck in the mud, pulling it out, only to get stuck again a quarter-mile down the way.

    Don't make sense on paper but I somehow put several hours into a session every time I fire it up.
     
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  7. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    I have no idea what country the video is from. But here in America the cost of building gravel roads into logging sites, and then removing all the gravel once they’re done, would make logging cost prohibitive.
     
  8. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Dont give any ideas to @TomCougar , he will then be telling us all how to get unstuck from a mudhole based on how he did it in the video game. Hes already reached supertrucker status and dont even have a cdl .
     
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  9. TomCougar

    TomCougar Light Load Member

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    Then I guess having Caterpillar tractors and logging chains on standby is the way to fly when rigs get mired. Logging trucks should also have power to the steer tires.
     
  10. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    Log the right of way, level the ground with a Cat, go logging. When finished logging, dig a trench across the road entrance and on to the next cut block.
     
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  11. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    Paid by the ton/hour. Extra, unneccessary weight that cuts down on payload and increases maintenance costs. A good tridrive with 6 way lockers gets you through most of it. Most places you have a main road that's high grade, hard pack dirt. From there you have spur roads that are usually pretty good. Its only really the short road from the landing out of the block that's a low grade road. Only really an issue if it rains a lot or at spring breakup.
     
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