Ice Road Trucking Part 2

Turns out I was pretty close on the miles and time I needed under the weather conditions.  Here's a picture I took around 6:39 AM still in my 10 hour of off duty time.  It was around 330 miles and I got there around 9:30 PM over 5 hours early.    Saw about 6 big trucks like mine above off road in woods and upside down.  I'm not posting these but first video show why it took so many hours to go just few miles.  Video 1  Road Conditions Video

Video 2 is me getting unloaded at dock while front end loader removes snow.   Delivery Site

Video 3 is the next day.  Next Day

After a couple of hours of sleep I discovered my Cabin Heater was not working.  I also noticed my power supply was not working so the computer was out too!!  Oh No it's going to be below O and no computer!!  How will I see new pictures of my grandson Mason?  Got a back up power supply going and Video 4 shows preparations made for the night.  Try not to sweat Trucker

Ice Road Trucking

Things are looking a little dicey out here so I thought I record a video for my grandson [Mason}and post it just in case.

Guess feeling nervous about things is part of trucking.  Weather is not a thing that upsets me though.  Take a AP news report last week I heard traveling across the south.  The reporter was excited and reported that the Gov was requiring big trucks (80,000 lbs) to get 10% better fuel economy by a future date.  To me the reporter seemed happy great leader has made this happen.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvF2_KvOmj0
Anyway I get upset thinking about the reporter thinking it's happened.  If Cummins, Caterpillar, Detriot, Mercedes, Volvo and International Harvester just to name a few could build a engine that could do that it would make more than a third of my new truck payment!!!

They're trying to add 17 cents to the fuel tax on top of the 20 cents increased in cost this week in fuel.  Just the tax alone is a 75.00 dollar a week increase tax to me so looks like that 95 % gets tax cut  ... well guess I finally made the 5% group!!!!!