Logging Truck Winter Loads -- Vernon, B.C.

This compilation of photographs show mainly three logging trucks hauling logs down the mountains of the Interior of British Columbia (The sunny Okanagan Valley) to a processing sawmill in Coldstream Valley, B.C., fourteen kilometers east of Vernon, B.C.

The majority of these photos are winter shots from 2006 and 2007. The photos show loads of logs varying in sizes and species.

Timber Industry is a major Okanagan Valley employer. Trees are a renewable resource. Great measures are taken to replenish trees to keep British Columbia viable and beautiful.

(If you're bored and care to spend 6 minutes looking at 80-plus photos of a red Kenworth logging truck hauling through the seasons, this photo album is for you. *Smiling*)

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Okanagan
• Valley
• Vernon
• B.C.
• Logging
• Truck
• Kenworth

[Austinbolton7]

What company are you hauling for

[CR250R40]

@Austinbolton7 The company was R. Hay & Son Trucking, which closed its doors in 2009.  R. Hay & Son Trucking started in 1969. Two to four loads a day -- that's a lot of loads. Thanks for watching the video.

[raginroadrunner]

Probably not...was forced into an early retirement..didn't want to go but no one will hire a guy in his sixties with 40 years work experience..they all want a man 24, with 30 years experience that will work 24/7 for minimum wages.....and when living in Southern Arizona you have to compete with half the population of Mexico for a minimum wage job....not a good place to be...

[CR250R40]

@raginroadrunner Sorry to read times are tough down there. If you were up here you'd land a driving job. As for the Mexico/USA boarder, I've seen the problem on television. Compete is an understatement. Best of luck. 

[raginroadrunner]

what are these guys grossing??? in the US we could not go over 85000lbs..could not make it pay and as a result most of us went broke..you guys are lucky to work where the tree huggers are shot on sight.

[CR250R40]

@raginroadrunner Hi Raginroadrunner, The maximum allowable gross weight on a tridem axle unit, as you see in the video, is 41000 kg [90900 lbs]. Sorry to read most of you went broke trying to make a living in forestry. Hope there are better years ahead.

[raginroadrunner]

@CR250R40 ..Southern Arizona, especially {Phoenix, Maricopa County) is the largest combat zone in the free world. It is unsafe to go anywhere at any time. I carry a concealed weapon no matter where I go. You have to watch young children every second of every minute. Killings, shootings, rape, child molestation, kidnapping and in the last 1 and 1/2 years three Police Officers gunned down by illegal Mexicans. It is hell on earth. Be glad you are Canadian. We protect the criminals.

[CR250R40]

@Fireheart528 4-season weather. June usually starts the summer halls. June is mostly dry, few rain showers, 26 C or 82 F. July/ August run a touch higher,.31 C or 87 F. Little rain.

Fall is 20 C or 68 F. Rain. Winter is very snowy.. 3' or greater, depending. It's cold... temps average -15 C or 5 F. This cold weather runs until late February.  March usually is the month thawing starts. Spring break-up runs from Late March until June -- hence no hauling... or very "little" hauling.

[CR250R40]

@timbertrans Hi. Sorry for the delay. Net is 39,000 kg or 86,000 lbs. Thanks for asking.

[timbertrans]

what can you net [weight] with this configuation