Are they ALL mandatory? I don't go this way often, but I remember there being about half a dozen between Calgary and Vancouver. Only one says trucks MUST stop and check brakes. The others are on green signs and do not use the word must.
I will admit I often just blast by all except for the one east of Hope. Never been inspected or questioned where I did my brake checks.
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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!
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I've heard they like to hand out $500 tickets if you don't show you stopped on your log. And with the excessive amount of brake check spots... some of them are a half hour from the last one.
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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.
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I think that means there are only 2, before golden and before hope. That sounds much more reasonable. -
I believe the westbound brake check east of Field is not mandatory as well.
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There is another mandatory one westbound at Illecillewaet (east of Revelstoke; 51°10'45.4"N 117°45'51.3"W).
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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
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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
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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 ####.Zeviander, Nothereoften, MartinFromBC and 1 other person Thank this.
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