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I've been looking at these loads to Newfoundland, Canada on the Landstar board and the rates are always pretty amazing. Okay, there's the ferry which costs around 600 bucks one way and then you have to drive on the island through all that fog to your destination... But how bad can it be if the trip pays over $3/mile? So, I drove 500 miles empty to IL, picked up some metal parts (no tarp is required), and am now heading back to my home in Ontario and then north-east via Quebec, New Brunswick and ... the trip stops at North Sydney, Nova Scotia where I'm catching the ferry to Port aux Basques, NL. The crossing time is around 6-8 hours and then it's 500 miles or 10 hour drive from the port of arrival to my destination near St. John's, NL. If someone drove there before, please share your horror stories :) I checked the weatherchannel.com and surprisingly the temperatures on the island are ABOVE freezing. I guess that's where all that famous fog comes from.. Will post some pictures after the trip.

I hear the winds on that road can be very bad,many trucks have been blown over, but you might want to make sure you chain you truck and load down real good on the ferry! Check out how your boat ride might be. No freight would pay enough to get me on that boat.LOL
Have fun and enjoy the ride.

YouTube - Ferry in bad weather

Dated a girl from there once...great seafood! Closest I ever made it with a load was PEI before the bridge; not quite the same.

Sounds like fun to me :)

so, is there much freight coming back? or how far will you have to dead-head?

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Originally Posted by Bigmon (Post 491036)

Or ferry head:)

... they got allot of ferry's up there?? http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nd10/shrug.gif

A friend of mine took a load up there about a month ago. I could not believe the cost of the ferry. He enjoyed his trip. It payed very well. He told me that the other drivers were friendly and were very helpful. He runs Canada quite a bit. Rates are usually very good. Other than the potential bad weather it should be an interesting trip.

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Originally Posted by bulldozerbert (Post 491028)

so, is there much freight coming back? or how far will you have to dead-head?

There is no freight from NL. I'd have to drive back empty 500 miles to get to the ferry. Then it's 8 hours to cross the ocean to Nova Scotia .... From there - realistically - I'd have to get to Quebec, ON to get something decent. Which is not exactly round the corner ... It's going to be lots of fun ;)