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Going to Harrison NJ

 

You ever consider a log home manufacturer or something? They’d probably send you to nicer places than those concrete fellows seem to.

 

This is used for wall structures?

 

I speak from experience to say that those log home people send you to the craziest places as well. People think a semi is part Mountain goat, apparently.. I don't have the fondest of memories hauling log home kits to rich peoples land... they all want to build on top of the mountain and think I'm driving my truck up to where u can only get to in a 4x4 jeep with full mud chains on... and yes that actually happened...Can't make it up.

 

I’ve seen a few beauties. I used to haul for a manufactured home outfit in Lloydminster, Sk. Get anywhere from 2 to 5 on a load depending on size. For a couple of years my vacation was one of their loads to BC. They were a week or two of hanging out with the tug crew while the truck was bobbing around on a barge. Delivered cottages through the Gulf Islands or up coast. Didn’t mind that at all. Some people are out of their minds though. I delivered one in Northern Ontario. The guy was going in and out of the place on a 4 wheeler, but for whatever reason he thought I’d drive my truck right in a track through the woods he couldn’t get his pick up through. A guy come with an all terrain forklift to unload it, he put it along the edge of the road and sent me on my way. When I left the two of them were going to find someone to slash the brush back enough so he could carry the bundles in with the machine.

 

Hahaha! Tomorrow I’m going to Pennsylvania, does that count? I haven’t received any dispatch information yet but I think it’s somewhere in the Poconos…
I’m counting down the days, only about another week and a half of this “part time” work and I’m on vacation for a month

 

This was planking for a floor. Some kind of telecommunications building. The planks went inside up on some walls. What a procedure they had for unloading with a crane and then a forklift with a spreader to support them. Total of 6 and a half hours on site…argh!
Those oversize pieces I was hauling last week were wall panels, they get stood up vertically.

 

Yup on Nelson homes.
I did some of theirs too but mostly it was packaged lumber into the yard over on the west side yard then down to the main yard for a house package back to the Kootenays or the Okanogan.
I also delivered a load of 55ft floor joists (wooden I-beam style) and 58ft roof trusses out of Regina to a "off grid" home about 10 miles NE of Klamath Falls OR. We needed to walk each bundle into the site about a 1/4 mile with them slung from the boom of a zoomboom and we needed a man on each end to guide each bundle around the corners. 11 hours from meeting the owner to leaving the site gate.

 

They were awesome to deal with. They had absolutely no problem with paying for the trucks, or any downstream costs involved in getting the stuff off like there could be. They just wanted their customers stuff delivered. Couldn’t ask for better people to haul for. Okanagan eh? I lived in Falkland. I got that work from Larry Toebosch in Salmon Arm, he’d done it for years and when he sold out I ended up with some of his jammy stuff that wasn’t part of the sale. It was Larry got me into hauling the mine consumables too. Worked 2 of my trucks into Highland Valley and Granisle for a while. The old ####er liked me for some reason and he helped me a lot when I first landed in the interior. Lionel Watson too, he was the source of a lot of the forestry work I got into.

 

I was leased with Westrim Express from '94 to '97 and was doing general freight when heavy-haul was slow. Then a year leased to Rathwell transport (split between Calgary and Moose Jaw) then 12 years as a leased/op with Schneiders trucking out of Regina SK.
I knew a driver for Larry while running to the coast from '88 to '94.