Now why would I want to do that? I'm running a business, NOT a charity!

Why would I drive 75 mph? I don't EVER drive faster than 62...60 most of the time. Our HOS are different than yours...I can drive 13 hours/day until I get to the 60th Parallel...look on a map if you don't know where that is...then I can drive 15 hours/day. I don't HAVE a moose catcher on my truck...I've been driving a truck for over 30 years & have yet to hit ANY animal...I KNOW where my brake pedal is!

Oh brother...you actually ASKED this? :rofl::rofl::rofl:

I LIVE in a small rural community just east of EDMONTON, ALBERTA, a CITY of just over a MILLION people, small by US standards, but a good sized city just the same, which is smack dab in the CENTRE of Alberta.

No I don't go into the US at all anymore...I used to years ago, but not now...you guys are too crazy for me!

We DO have high speed internet access here...just like everyone else! You need to get outside more man....

Again...LOOK at a map...the Yukon Territory is north of British Columbia...right beside Alaska?

Search some of my threads...I have hundreds of pictures posted of my travels.

 

Ok, I was having a little fun, but you gave Edmonton as basically a southern border, said you run way north and have your truck spec'd for the arctic- I thought you meant that literally. I guess it's safe to say you haven't off loaded to a dog sled train then? So, you run upper Alberta, something like that? I'll agree, that IS way north, I can't imagine the temperatures you deal with.

As for the internet, I bet northern Alberta doesn't have mobile broadband! That is, you have to get back to the city to use the internet, right? That's all I was saying there.

Whether you think of yourself as drawing a wage or making profit, or both, your personal savings come out of there- it isn't a business expense. The business isn't concerned with what you do with your earnings, only that you have some.

Now, 15k miles per month at 60-62 mph! Woman, you are working WAY too much! I'll have some time later, I'll take a look at some of those pictures. One last question, there's a woman in America named Caribou Barbie, do you know her?

 

What she meant by saying that she doesn't run south of Edmonton, means precisely that ; I'm curious to know how you could infer that to mean that Edmonton is the southern border of Alberta ( it's more like north-central AB...the southern border is about 6.5 hours away, and "way north" would mean about 8-10 hours of driving north of here till you reach the Alberta-Northwest Territories border). Also, she did mean "literally" that her truck is spec'd for the Arctic...that doesn't, however, imply in any way, shape or form that she runs it at 75mph. That's illegal, as our speed limit up here is 100kmh on 2-lane highways, & 110 on 4-lane highways.

As for your bet, I have news for you...you've lost.

 

Maybe I should have said 'boundary', the southern boundary of where Wildkat runs. Wildkat told me to look at a map and I did just that, but I always knew Edmonton was somewhere in the middle.

Ok, her truck is literally spec'd for the arctic, fine. Forgive me for thinking that when she said way north she meant the arctic. None of that was related to the speeds she runs. I was saying it takes a whole lot of time to do 15k miles a month at 60 mph- A LOT of time.

On the mobile broadband, I hope no one is offended because I happen to know that Canada has a population 1/10 of the United States and most people are clustered on the southern border. All that means northern Canada is sparsely populated. I'd be very surprised to learn you can stick in your PC card and connect to the internet all over northern Alberta- VERY surprised.

 

15,000 miles is 24,000 km. Like Kat posted earlier, south of the 60th parallel, we can drive 13 hours a day, which translates to about 1150 km ( 720 miles approx ) a day, or say 1100 km a day for argument's sake. That is very much doable...I say so, as I myself do it atleast 3 days a week, even though technically, I'm a city driver ( I'm home every night ). It would take only 21-22 days of driving in month, to hit 24,000 km, and you would still have 8 days of rest. A lot of the o/o's in the company that I work for, do even more ( we haul dry bulk, mostly in super b's ).

 

I didn't mean to suggest it can't be done, only it is A LOT of work.

15000 miles/22 days = 680 miles/55 mi/hr = 12.4 hrs driving time.

Fold in fuel, loading and unloading, maintenance stops, paperwork- you're probably at, at least 14 hours a day of actual work. Now, let's say you want to do things like eat, take a shower, wee wee- there's nothing else left but sleep. Certainly, it can be done. It's just a lot of work, that's all. I's a lazy trucker. I likes to mosey along, cool out, make my delivery, make another one after that...no offense, more power to you. Why, if I tried to do 15,000 mi/month, when would I ever find time to squabble on the internet!? :smokin:

 

No I run alot further north than Northern Alberta...what do you think the Yukon & Northwest Territories are? They ARE in the Arctic! But up there they have DIAMOND mines. OIL REFINING, NATURAL GAS & many other industries...just NOT alot of roads! Like I said...you REALLY need to look at another map besides those American Road Atlases...they are pretty decieving about the far north...I've been as far north as Inuvik, NWT...that right on the ARCTIC OCEAN...find that in your atlas!

And I suppose you think they all live in igloos & drives dog sleds too right?

Alberta has some of the best cellular & internet service on the planet...almost NO dead spots here...I'll be I had broadband internet BEFORE you did! LOL

Well if I drove 75 miles/hour on those roads lowrange I wouldn't have a truck anymore...there are NO 4 lane highways up there...it's all narrow winding 2 laners...some places the speed limit is 50 mph...on a good day you MIGHT want to do 55! This time of year...the roads are so damned rough if you did more than 55 you'd break stuff...ever seen a frost heave launch a semi air born? I have...thankfully it was the idiot if FRONT of me...I had time to slow down!

Never heard of her...is that some American Fantasy?

 

Isn't that the same thing you told me when I asked if you were all the way up there in the Yukon!? Another reply you might have considered would have been 'yes, lowrange, yes' :nana:

Anyway, as much as I love squabbling, this is pretty interesting, so right now I'd rather not. Dang, I had no idea what's up there. Who knew you could drive to the Arctic Ocean!? How are the beaches!?

Excuse me for doubting your mobile broadband access. The Northwest Territories is over one and a half times the size of Texas and has one third the population of Waco. Of course, if you ever lost signal with your aircard, you could probably stop at one of the many Huskies or Flying J's and use their hotspot on the heavily traveled highway to Inuvik, right?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but some Inuit still live in igloos, right? Or maybe that's just Alaska. Anyway I looked and I see now that many/most Inuit have been Westernized. So, who else is left in the NW Territories? Must be almost excusively oil workers and miners and their families, right?

Fascinating stuff. You must be in survival mode a lot- like -20 (f), 300 miles from a truckstop, that kind of thing? How far down does the snow melt? How warm does northern Alberta get in the summer?

Well, let's just say not for eating crackers, I wouldn't.

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress...lin_debate.jpg

I hear she's WAY hotter in person. Hey, say 'hi' to Hugh and TJ and everybody next time you're at the Monkey Tree, ok?

 

One note about wildcats figures they are in Canadian dollars, check the exchange rates.
1.50 CA is about 1.21 US

 

lowrange...I'm always happy to answer "intelligent" questions about where I travel...it's nothing like south of the border...but I consider questions "stupid" when it's comes to igloos & dogsleds...no wrong word...not stupid...irritating would be better!

No idea...last time I saw them it was all frozen! LOL And the last time I was there in summer...it was all pretty rugged...mostly rocks.



THAT"S FUNNY! I was talking about Alberta... There's NO cell service in either the Yukon or NWT unless you're a mile or two from a town...I've said that before...many times. And as far as truck stops go...what the heck is a truck stop? I haven't seen one of those since the last time I was south of the border!

Maybe so...when they're out hunting...any I've seen live in houses...just like you & me...



There's NO snow in summer! We have grass, flowers & trees just like you!.. That is unless you go north of the tree line...then there's just shrubs, trees & flowers.

Summers are hot...we have way more daylight than you in summer...even in the Arctic...24 hours of daylight...90F is not uncommon. At home we have 20 hours of daylight in summer...we get hot here too...not the 100+ that you get in they deep south, but high nineties are not uncommon. Winters are longer & colder tho...

Those idiot? Sure!