Running produce to Alaska

When the big fish runs come later in the season you can see a lot more money than right now. I had two different fish loads on the way back and each weight about 10,000lbs. They paid for the fuel for the trip. In the summer you can see a lot more money for a load back, but a lot of brokers will pay you for a round trip. When it gets crazy in the summer they will take anybody with a pulse to run loads, but remember if you only show up at the height of the fish season you will get the cheap loads. The high paying stuff will go to the trucks that run all winter.

 

Made it back to Alaska and done for today. The weather is beautiful here in Anchorage and I just got done looking over the truck and checking it over. It turned from blue to brown again and one would not know that I just washed it before this trip. Got some more dings in the windshield, but no cracks so far. I pulled a guy out of the snow bank in front of the terminal last night. It is such a pain to get around all those darn snow piles here. He had a chain on and all lockers in and still could not get out. I had added a chain to the truck a while back and it came in handy. I just idled forward after hooking him to the trailer bumper. He was so frustrated for putting himself in the spot, but sometimes we just need a little help.

I took some more pictures and will add them here shortly. The first couple will show the weather and conditions within an hour between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson in British Columbia.



This hairy Canadian made me stop since he or she was standing in the middle of the road and took his or her sweet time to move over. I figured I might as well have a Kodak moment.

 

Here are some pictures along Muncho Lake in BC. The road is really twisty and you got the rock face on one side and the lake on the other. I am not sure how well the pictures show it, but there are places with barely a shoulder and the lake is right there. Either way a driving mishap will leave a mark in your drawers.

 

I finally hit that stretch of road during daylight hours one time and I could take some pictures of it. The road is clinging the mountain and has a 8% grade. The good thing is you can usually look ahead to make sure you wont meet another truck in the tight corners.




Usually there is one track through there since everybody runs the middle of the road and cuts the corners to use the banking of the roadway as an advantage. This part of the trip always reminds me of Space Mountain when I come through there at night. It feels like a roller coaster and you can't see much ahead of you since the lights keep shining over the edge most of the times.

 

I will agree with you with the winter time. The last trip I started seeing RVs already. I think it is mostly snow birds coming back or people that cannot take the snow anymore heading South. It does suck to use an outhouse when it is freezing, but at least you don't have the bugs draining a paint of blood out of your back side.

I have not run the Cassiar with the truck since most of our contracts do not allow us to run the Cassiar. It is a beautiful area, but if you have a break down you are in trouble.

Do you run back and forth from Washington to Alaska?