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ICE ROAD TRUCKERS * Canada - Feeling the economic freeze
Yellowknife,NT,Canada -Today's Trucking -17 Feb 2009: -- The winter road in Canada’s north -hit show Ice Road Truckers- is seeing a little less action these days... According to the Northern News Service, one closed mine and a general slowdown in production have led to a drop in shipments for trucking companies working the famous route... The winter road opened Feb. 2 and is operating on schedule, completing 10 percent of this season’s shipments. The number of those on-time shipments, however, has gone down... While the drop in tonnage will mean the trucks that are hired will do between eight to 10 loads, rather than 20 to 25 loads, Blair Weatherby, president of the NWT Motor Transport Association says, the news isn’t all bad... "If you go back five or 10 years, we're still (shipping) more than we were then," he notes...(Picture by getmemedia: Ice road truckers)
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