Saturday 28 February 2009

Ice Roads series 3 ?

or a road leading from the wind farm in Kent County, New Brunswick? After driving this road at 3am the ice roads may be easier, lol. ;) We arrived at the bottom of the hill at lunchtime on Thursday, there were six other trucks already there, oh well looks like we're going to be here for the day. Rod went to speak to the other drivers and was told the crane which was going to lift the equipment on to the trailers had spun out on the hill, along with a truck which had been following. Over the next few hours we watched snow plows and a gritter or salt shaker as they are nick named here, head up the hill. At around 6pm we were told the hill was clear and to start making our way to the top, easier said then done, with our wheels spinning and there hardly being enough room for the width of a truck, we eventually made it. Hopefully it will be easier coming down! There were now eight trucks all waiting to get loaded and it was getting dark... at 3am we were loaded and ready to head back down, there was one truck left but the container he was taking had frozen into the ground even the crane couldn't budge it. It was going to be a long night for them. We delivered the container to Moncton NB and headed back to Halifax for our next job.

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