Did you know "Bubbles" and his partner "The Arctic Mexican"
I drove a Foremost Delta 3 in the 70's-looks a lot like that one-hauled freight and fuel from Deadhorse to remote crews
When you tell the truth everything is really easy to remember!
"Safety Meetings!" I remember them well-never heard more whining in my life! The Haul Road was like a super highway to most of us old...
Hot shift PTO
I worked a few winters in the Arctic as a field mechanic (to support my trucking habit!). We lived on cat trains and since we moved 3 to 5 miles...
Yep-pretty much toast! Not one of my better investments!
I bought a parts truck a while back that had the power divider switch blocked off-didn't think anything of it at first, but when I pulled the...
I was raised in rural Alaska in the years before statehood-not many people and not much for roads, so heavy traffic in cities made me very nervous...
Good thread Hammer-Been trucking in Alaska, The Yukon, and Northern BC since the late 60's-seems like I never stop learning.
I think if I had done more oil changes in the field it would have been a good deal, as it turned out just about the only time I did one was if I...
I built a lube skid that I could crane off and on my service truck-air operated diaphragm pump-waste oil compartment etc. It turned out really...
To the OP: I would have done the same. I look at it this way-if this is the way he shows up for the job, what is he going to pull once I start...
Western South Dakota by any chance?
Trucker lingo! There must be an app for that! LOL!
I guess I am thankful that I've had the experiences that brought me to where I am now and there certainly have been a lot of improvements in the...
It's pretty good work-I pretty much stick with winch/lowboy and scissor neck anymore, but still jump in a bed truck when we are short-haven't done...
YES-One of Cummins' best ideas-I think they kept that feature on PT pumps until they went electronic, or at least up to the BC4. Got my 220 about...
Good point, NorthernMechanic, what a truck is used for is VERY important- kind of a far out example-When I drove a bed truck sometimes after a...
You got that right! Rule #1: Thumbs on the OUTSIDE! My hat size was a bit larger though, mainly because I was pretty much full of myself in...
