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Jun 21, 2014

INFRASTRUCTURES * USA: The Dalton Highway

* Alaska - The Trucks of Dalton Highway 

 Fairbanks,Alaska,USA -Hooniverse, by Jim Yu -19, June 2014: -- A couple of weeks ago, I took a van trip up Alaska’s Dalton Highway to the Arctic Ocean. The Dalton, also known as the Haul Road, parallels the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and was made famous by the TV show Ice Road Truckers. I saw many pieces of unusual heavy machinery, like this Euclid B70 dump truck... My ride was a Ford Econoline E350 with the V10 Triton. It transports people, bicycles, and canoes up and down the Dalton. My round trip fare was $500. Coincidentally, this van burns $500 of fuel for the round trip between Fairbanks and Deadhorse (1,000 miles total). Since the road was mostly gravel (and mostly rough gravel), we rarely exceeded 40 miles per hour. The steepest grade was 12%, at the Atigun Pass...
The Haul Road has two primary purposes– to help service the pipeline and to provide supplies to the Prudhoe Bay oilfields. As such, the tractor-trailers have the right-of-way. Because the road is dusty and narrow and has sharp drop offs, our highly experienced driver always pulled over to give oncoming trucks as much room as possible.
The northern terminus of the Pan-American Highway is in Deadhorse, which is just south of Prudhoe Bay. Prudhoe Bay happens to be on British Petroleum property, so the public cannot drive all the way to the end of the road. More on that later... Every contractor that works the oilfields has their own camp in Deadhorse. I stayed at the camp belonging to CGGVeritas, a geosciences company. The company goes out on the frigid tundra, does what geoscientists do, and looks for oil deposits. That means their yard was chock full of awesome tracked vehicles!...

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