Alaska. I did a round up and back.

Nice pictures , I dids that run twice a few years back.

As for spreads there is lots of them in Canada , lot of produce hauling O/Os run them as well as companies.

Place in Ontario builds / sells the ROO bars ( Moose ) for a lot less than the $ they want in Alaska but again everything up there is big $.

 

http://www.aliarc.com

This is the most common one I see used around here for cow catchers

 

Looks like the ones an O/O with ARNOLD BROTHERS had on his PETE when I was talking with him at Northbay

 

they put that Tok coop up pretty fast. I was up there in April,headed to Anchorage and they had just started pouring and framing one area. Nothing was really open,everything was still frozen.. great time driving experience though.

 

Sure looks like it was a great trip...
Now you have cool stories to tell the grandkids eh'

 

WM, great pictures. I'll see if I can round up mine and put them on here. My wife and I were stationed in Anchorage from May 07 until May this year. We did the drive up there and back. We had my F-350 and a 38' 5th wheel for both trips and there were parts of the ALCAN that got a little hairy. I can only imagine what it was like for you... Some of those Mountain passes are steep as hell and coming down them with that 5er behind me sucked sometimes. I'm glad you got a chance to do the trip and recommend it to anyone. Hopefully I will get to do the trip again once I am driving the big rigs.

 

In 1973 we were running team loads out of the midwest hauling frozen meat and veggies destined for the pipeline construction crews in Alaska.

We'd meet another truck at the old Evergreen Truck Stop in Federal Way, WA and transfer our load onto their trailer for the ride to Fairbanks. back then the road had 1100 miles of gravel with the rest paved.

I had a chance to get a job as second driver for an O/O leased to Lyndon... found out from his current driver that the owner didn't like to drive and you did 90% of the driving... no thanks.

He DID have about the neatest rig I'd seen up to that point...'73 W900L... Detroit "dirty dozen", 5X4, two 36" sleepers bolted together... 300" WB, etc... cool rig.

 

Winchester, it was a pleasure to meet you,and very nice to be able to sit down and have a chat, An once again thank you for lunch

 

Great pictures. Several years ago I was a part of thirty something shipments from Manitowoc Crane in Wisconsin to the port of Anchorage. The scale in Tok was just a shack. You had to stop there then phone some woman in town who ran the DMV out of her house. She would come out to the scale, register your truck in Alaska and give you a set of plates. She would do this because it was cheaper to register your truck in Alaska for the year than a single trip permit cost.

I did the trip in the middle of winter. I stopped at that resteraunt/ hotel in Tok in desperate need of a hot shower. After 10 seconds all the hot water was gone, ended up with a ice cold shower in the middle of Alaska in the winter.

Had to run empty to Slave Lake, AB from Anchorage. Found out later that the company loaded all the company trucks with pipe out of Alaska and all the o/os ran empty to Alberta.