Running produce to Alaska

All produce runs by truck. It would not get here in time by barge. We haul for all the big companies. The only thing they ship by container is the dry goods and other non perishable items. You don't get much time to get produce to Alaska. Friday morning deliveries load Monday evening and Tuesday morning deliveries load Friday evening. You have to run about 700mls a day to get here on time and road and weather conditions are not always on your side. In the last two month I have seen quite a few trucks off the road and on their side.

 

There is not a lot of traffic this time of year. The most traffic that I encounter is around towns or cities or in places were the oil and gas companies are going at it. Sometimes it seems hours before seeing another car or truck and other times you will see a couple in a row. I usually hate coming back to Washington and deal with the I-5 corridor.

 

Well, I made it back last time and managed to keep the shiny side up and stay between the ditches. Frazier Canyon claimed several trucks the night before and I came by three different clean up efforts from truck wrecks. I hope everybody was able to survive, but two of the wrecks did not look very promising. When they bring out excavators to pick loads and chunks of trucks out of ditches and gullies makes me fear the worst.

Here are two pictures from my way back. I had everything from dry roads and sunshine to blinding snow.

 

Lately I have been bouncing back empty since there is more freight going North than South. We do haul cars and other stuff back on occasion as well besides fish and other customers' freight.