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12-10-2008, 09:30 AM
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Ya'all can go ahead and keep the cold up north...say north of I-40. You have my blessings!
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Hey Stan! I hadn't heard about your castration! :rofl:
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12-10-2008, 11:54 AM
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Hello WildKat. Who do you drive the Northern Ice Roads for? Your regular company or someone else? Is it as lucrative in terms of earning potential as I've read on the internet? Is it a realistic goal on my part, that after a couple of years experience (regular driving), I could apply to drive up north? (Northwest Territories Ice Roads) Your honesty is very much appreicated.
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Nancy, I am a Lease Operator (I own my truck) for Byers Transport. The money IS very good, about 2 1/2 times normal rates, but it's only for 6-9 weeks/year. Most of the companies (the reputable ones) who run on the Ice Roads will not hire anyone without about 10 years experience to run those roads & the majority have their drivers return year after year so it's very hard to get into unless you are already working for the company to start with. The main company that hires for them is RTL Robinson, but again they have drivers that return each year & most of them are fuel haulers & as for the majority of them you need to be pretty mechanical as well & also you would have to be able to chain-up daily...not the pretty little singles but 90 lbs triples.
My advise would be to go out & get several years under your belt & then check into it again.
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12-15-2008, 10:44 AM
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Update time...just back from Yellowknife...and man was it COLD!
On the ferry....
Sunrise...10 AM
Frost on them short, short trees...
Near Enterprise, NWT
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12-15-2008, 01:34 PM
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-32C ? holy smokes,btw keep the pics coming. really enjoy them. more Mandy too!
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Hey Stan! I hadn't heard about your castration! :rofl:
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NOW Gary...You just STOP being so Cantankerous!!! I moved down here to the Gulf Coast to be WARM. If I wanted to get snowed on, I would have stayed in Seattle!!!
Now...for whatever reason...I missed this years WINTER here in Orange! I was on the road to LA and say a brief spit of snow in San Antonio, but that was it.
Keep the thermal weather up north please.
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We are supposed to have some of that white stuff this week. Or atleast, it's in the forecast. Today's high is supposed to be 31. I don't care who you are, that's cold right there! We are supposed to have freezing drizzle after Midnight, tonight. (whatever freezing drizzle means) That aint 30" of snow, but it's enough.
I'm sure we will be running our air conditioners by next week.
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We are supposed to have some of that white stuff this week. Or atleast, it's in the forecast. Today's high is supposed to be 31. I don't care who you are, that's cold right there! We are supposed to have freezing drizzle after Midnight, tonight. (whatever freezing drizzle means) That aint 30" of snow, but it's enough.
I'm sure we will be running our air conditioners by next week.
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31? OMG!!!!!!
(it was 45 degrees when I went to bed last night. It was 2 degrees when I woke up, with a -15 wind chill.)
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31? OMG!!!!!!
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Yeah, tell me about it! I thought the same thing when I first saw the weather forecast. I could not believe it!
(after I posted that, I thought, "someone will say something about that". )
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(it was 45 degrees when I went to bed last night. It was 2 degrees when I woke up, with a -15 wind chill.)
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That would be a rude awakening. :lol:
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I'm currently parked at a dock in Sheboygan, WI, and my truck is facing the wind. The coolant temp is reading 125 degrees. LOL.
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