What is either the driver or truck lacking here?

This right here.

excellent post @Long FLD .




For those who have never worked in the woods you shouldn't be too quick to deride and ridicule.
It's obvious the nuances of the job have escaped you. ( Mostly directed at cougar ).

 

American logging trucks get stuck all the time. Usually they get help to get out via a tracked vehicle like a Cat if there is one around.

 

what a truly ignorant thing to say about people who don't have the resources that we in America have. I'll bet these hard working people could work you to death. They have to out work and out think people like you to survive. They should have your respect,not your ridicule and arrogance.


P.S. Said with out malice, only concern.

 

The old man owned logging trucks in central BC, Canada for years. Most guys on this forum wouldn't last a week doing that kind of driving.

I rode with my dad all the time when I didn't want to go to school on a Friday. Throw 2 sets of triples on twice a day in the mud or snow. Get dragged up a 10% grade by a skidder to get to the landing because an empty tridem pole trailer loaded on the truck doesn't give you enough weight on the drives, even with all 12 drive tires locked in and 2 sets of triples on. Crawl down the hill with a butt 'n top loader holding your trailer from sliding off a 150 foot drop. Road collapse under the trailer, dragging the truck over into the ditch. Having to repair your trailer air lines on the side of a mountain, in the dark at 2 am because they got snagged while pulling the trailer off the truck.

If Swift ran logging trucks in those conditions, every driver would have a "preventable" a week.

 

Looked like the driver in the video was doing pretty good with what he had. It was not his first time up that hill for sure.

Ground looked stupid soft

 

I've hauled a lot of logs in every kind of terrain. The guy on the Mack was doing fine with what he had to work with,

North or south of the border has no bearing here and most real truck drivers understand that.

 

Wondering when you'd chime in lol.

How's logging going down there? Its dead in BC now. Lot of guys are headed east with their iron to go logging.

 

You hit the nail on the head @AModelCat with that first paragraph. THANKS.

As for the rest of your post, 90% of these "truck drivers" here couldn't even comprehend the challenges that your family 's occupation faced........ And would quit in the first two hours.

Shame on these urban people for thinking us back woods folks got short-changed in the I.Q. department.

 

They don't get stuck on the video game.

 

We're still going. We try to go all year round when we can but Mother Nature always has the final say.
LOL...we usually quit when its starting to cost more to get the logs to the mill than they're worth.