* Texas - Alaska (USA) trip is 'highlight' of driver's career
-- Richard Robertson, 57, who has been driving for Ennis Trucking for 17 years. Traverse City's Midwest Air Products, Co., asked Ennis if he had someone who could haul a truck load of make-up air units to Valdez, Alaska, and Ennis posed the question to Robertson... Robertson left Traverse City on Feb. 3 and didn't return for a full month. It was the longest he'd ever been on the road; most trips take 10 days at most. The drive from Michigan to Seattle — his first destination — was about what he was used to, but conditions grew more unfamiliar as he headed north through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. "Being out there and seeing it, it's real pretty, but it's deadly at the same time," he said. "You're a long ways from nowhere" ... Robertson drove from sunup to sundown — driving at night would be too risky — and often was the lone truck pulled off at rest stops. "Other than being awed by the sights all around me, it was just the loneliness," he said. "I have never felt so isolated" ... He stayed the night in the Alaskan town and set out in the morning to retrace his path back to Seattle. From Seattle he hauled a load to New Orleans, then a load from New Orleans to Texas and a final load from Texas back to Traverse City. He arrived home March 3 with 12,418 miles logged... Robertson wouldn't take the trip again in the winter, but said he'd "take my chance with the tourists" in the summer. The vast Alaskan landscape left an impression... "It was the highlight of my career," he said. "Where else can you go, the moon?" ...
(Photo by Thessa Lighty: R. Robertson sits in his truck cab) -- Traverse City, TXS, USA - Traverse City Record Eagle, by SARAH ELMS - Apr 3, 2016
* Northwest Territories / Canada - Submerged NWT ice truck finally removed
-- A fuel tanker that plunged through an ice road on March 5 in the , near Deline, has finally been removed after spending nearly a month in a shallow, icy state of hibernation... CBC News reports that about 30,000 litres of fuel had to be removed from the truck, which is owned by Bassett Petroleum... The weight limit of the road had recently been tripled to 40,000 kg, according to the territory’s Department of Transportation... Nobody was injured in the incident...
(Photo: The territory's Department of Environment and Natural Resources posted a photo to its Facebook page showing the truck partially submerged through a hole in the ice) -- Deline, NWT, CAN - Today's Trucking - 4 April 2016Labels: ice road truckers, trucker stories
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