Highway Thru Hell - From TV ....

Do you guys look at the overhead signs before the laidlaw scale? they always say if chain ups in effect and where.....

 

whoaaa working on a weekend? you wouldnt catch us doing that lol. I wish i had the hotel everynight

 

no they do not.

i have left new west having just called drivebc
then while fuelling in chilliwack call again
get to the scales, say chains on 5, nothing for 1, so went canyon only to be caught in LOTS of snow and trucks spun all over and cvse only letting you thru with chains

twice ive gone west from kamloops after checking with drivebc and overhearing cb chatter that the coq was fine only to get to the tollbooths and have to chain up to go downhill, no signs en route with this info, eastbound warned us once we were already past merritt

in all fairness this is ~5% of the time....95% of the time the signage/drivebc is accurate.

i can accept them being accurate to within an hour or so, but there have been times when ive been in a road closure and 3hrs later drivebc says its open

 

among the things they got wrong or overstated was that the coq cut 2.5hrs off the old route, lol.

 

Just saw the show today. Did anyone else see the microphone holder flip over the median backwards? LOL!

 

These are people who have come to this country without a lick of experience running in the Canadian environment,


Just a quick question tank33 how can a person get that "lick of experience" without "coming to this country" lol

 

By running team with someone with experience.

 

True,but i understood that was normal for a short while and then to shadow an experienced driver for a while too,or have i been misinformed ? speaking as someone not in usa/canada i have always found the people used to teach new drivers are not always the better drivers in a company, generally they are the ones needing someone in the spare saddle to make sure their job gets done,,the saying goes "If you cant do it - teach it " myself i have always found listening to a number of old hands the most useful tool and never being too clever to ask anyone a question i feel matters even if asking makes me look numb and i have had the blank expression quite a few times !! lol
But thanks for clearing that up for me prairie boy ,it did raise a chuckle when i read it,

 

and dispatched super single not team

cant learn/teach anything on a team schedule