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TRUCKS NOT AMPHIBIOUS * Canada - Flood detours cost truckers time, money
Things could get worse for travelers and homeowners in S. Manitoba this weekend
Winnipeg,Manitoba,CAN -Today's Trucking -17 April 2009: -- With more showers on the way and water levels expected to rise this weekend, there’s a good chance that Flood ’09 could be one of the largest in Manitoba’s history... "There’s roughly a 100 km detour to get to the border," said Bob Dolyniuk, GM of Manitoba Trucking Association, in an interview with todaystrucking.com... And that detour, added up, is costing trucking companies, collectively, “somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars a day,” Dolyniuk estimates. “When you consider the border is an hour’s drive from Winnipeg, and you got a 100-km detour, you’re virtually doubling your distance and cost.”... On top of all this is the fact that Manitoba’s winters have a habit of pummeling roads, so it remains to be seen how much the flood will exasperate winter road damage... (Photo from, cbc.ca: Photogallery aerial flood)
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