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From the Editor’s desk... VOLUME 16, ISSUE 7 PUBLISHER/EDITOR John White john.protrucker@shaw.ca PRODUCTION/CIRCULATION Tori Proudley tori.protrucker@shaw.ca ADMIN/SPECIAL EVENTS Donna White donna.protrucker@shaw.ca ADVERTISING/MARKETING John White john.protrucker@shaw.ca Tori Proudley tori.protrucker@shaw.ca CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dave Madill • Mel McConaghy Ben Proudley • Scott Casey Frank Cox • Ed Murdoch Colin Black • Dennis Ruttan PHOTOGRAPHY Hank Suderman • David Benjatschek HEAD OFFICE Ph: 604-580-2092 Fax: 604-580-2046 Toll Free: 1-800-331-8127 Published eleven times a year by Pro-Trucker Magazine Inc.,
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On July 1, 2008 the BC provincial government put a carbon tax in place to, as their website states, “…encourage individuals, businesses, industry and others to use less fossil fuel and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.” It goes on to say, “The initial tax rate was relatively low and has increased gradually to allow families and businesses time to reduce their emissions.” The BC provincial web site reports that the 2013/14 carbon tax revenue was $1,212 million. To avoid confusion we will John White translate that number into un-political (I just invented a word) language and call it what it really is, and that is one billion two hundred and twelve million dollars. ($1,212,000,000.00) The province proudly proclaims that B.C. continues to be a leader in climate action by having a carbon tax. Fast forward to July of 2014 – when the BC Government increased speed limits on highways. “There’s certainly skepticism,” B.C. transportation minister Todd Stone admitted Thursday, a day after increasing limits on 1,300 kilometres of rural highway. “But the facts are the facts. When you have motorists all generally moving at the same rate of speed — as opposed to people moving much faster or much slower than the natural flow of speed — you’re going to have a safer corridor.” “Certainly, I understand the concerns relating to speed,” Mr. Stone said. ‘‘But I think what we’re seeing around the world and North America as well is a growing recognition of the fact that it’s not so much speed, in and of itself, that causes collisions, but variations in speed.’’ I and many drivers are having great difficulty deciphering the mixed messages that the BC Provincial Government is sending. As everyone knows, cars are seldom issued speeding tickets for going 10 kph over the speed limit on BC’s highways. Considering that some BC highways now have speed limits of 120kph - we will now see many vehicles going 130 kph. An increase of speed for a truck from 100 kph to 120 kph can increase fuel consumption up to 39%. Since fuel is the largest single overhead that a truck owner faces, very few will want to increase it by an additional 39%. Many company trucks are now governed to a top speed of 100kph. Trucks are big Mr. Stone. If you have concerns that a differential in speed can be a problem then you should look at the fact that faster trucks will pass slower trucks. This means that you will find trucks taking up 2 lanes while some race-carwanna-be 4 wheeler is coming up on them at 130kph. In case you haven’t really thought this out I can assure you that the 4 wheeler will not win this battle and people will die. Taking this to the next level; considering the provincial governments complete reversal on reducing the use of fossil fuel, when can we expect to see a repeal of the carbon tax?
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Morning John, I was Rig of the Month in October 1999. Thought I would let you know I’m enjoying my retirement, spending my winters in Yuma Arizona. I also drive for the Handi-bus in our small town of Strathmore Alberta, which gets me out of the house. I want to thank you for sending me copies of Pro-Trucker Magazine, it keeps me up to date on what is happening in the industry. Hoping to get to Alberta Big Rig weekend in Red Deer and maybe have a visit with you. Regards, John Sowers Editor’s note: Good to hear from you John. What a flash from the past - October 1999 was the 5th issue of ProTrucker Magazine. It seems like a lifetime away… Glad to hear you are doing well and I hope you can make it to Red Deer. I look forward to seeing you again. Dear John, On July 5th and 6th I attended the Pro-Trucker Big Rig
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For assistance contact us at www.safetydriven.ca. Garry Crawford of Langley, BC Tel: 604.888.2242 or Toll Free: 1.877.414.8001 BC big rig weekend by Teagan Tutt I had lots of fun at the truck show! I Polishd LOTS with daddy and my brothr Tanner. I told Teagan and daddy if he missed Tanner Tutt a spot. I got a poster from Jaimie Davis!!!! Andy has a nice truck too. My daddy won 3 trofies! And I loved when the trucks werr all turning on and driving out of the bilding, they looked realllly cool! My brother and I had so much fun!!!! Oh!! And the LIGHT SHOW was COOL! Thank you for the trofies! From Teagan Tutt 6 years old
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Editor’s note: Thank you for your letter Teagan. Your Saturday passes was 119.78 mph, just short of my 2007 Dad must have missed a spot because I’m sure I saw you Canadian/U.S. (still current) speed record of 120.7 mph. with a signed poster from Jaimie Davis. I hope you come Our next NHRDA diesel drag race date is Aug 09/14 back next year to help your Dad win more trofies. at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton. The Super Diesel 11.90 second class, competing against diesel pickups, is the Hello John, only heads-up diesel class that we fit in any more. And We attended the Armor sponsored diesel meet on the only NHRDA diesel Canadian race is in Edmonton, Saturday July 05/14 at the NHRA Medicine Hat AB with all other races now in the US. Drag Strip. My other KW driver Patrick Croteau, Wendy Seems like a long time has passed since Big Rig & I drove the Red Baron COE down with Smokin’Gun Diesel Drag Races were also in Mission, BC, & Calgary, in tow. Alberta! Exhibitions like Thunder in the Valley in The drag strip was slippery with sparse VHT, how- Drayton Valley, AB, and Airshows are still an enjoyable ever the strong tail wind compensated, and we ran a outing for Smokin’Gun and Crew. We will stay around as new record Canadian Big Rig 1/4 mile ET @ 11.57 sec., long as everyone also enjoys diesel power! backed up by 11.66 seconds! Max speed on all three Smokin’Gord & Crew, Calgary, Alberta
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Editor’s note: Thanks for the update Gord. It has been 14 years since our first Big Rig Weekend in Mission when you brought out the Smokin’ Gun. At that time it was a beautiful project truck that no one would mistake for a race truck. As I remember you met George and Hazel Nielsen owners of the “Class of 65” and Joe Fraser with his “Cornfield Corvette” and watched in awe as they took their big rig race trucks down the strip. I remember you saying to me when you left that year that you would be back next year with more power under the hood. “Go big or go home” were your exact words. Well you did just that and after working with George and Joe, and then Wayne and Pop Talkington, in just 7 years you set the top speed record in both Canada and the U.S and you’re still breaking records today. Congratulations Gord – you’re a man of your word. Pro Trucker Magazine- Good morning! Question Why is it you only feature a particular race in your magazine? I enjoyed the one with the two sisters. As I look at everyone you feature for Rig of the Month they were all fair skinned. You must have been unable to interview a black skin person? I am just puzzled to see race seem like it’s still an issue if I am wrong I apologize but if not then shame
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Mel is a retired veteran driver who has spent 40 years on the road. Around noon one late spring day I found myself trucking into Chini mine, which was way back in the mountains. I had left the highway at the Windy Point turn off on highway 97, which is about a hundred miles north of Prince George. I timed it so that I left the highway late the previous afternoon. That way I would miss the loaded off highway logging trucks on the Finnlay Forest Access road which gave me a less stressful journey for the first hundred miles. It was never a pleasure meeting eleven foot wide loaded trucks, driven by drivers who had been up since four in the morning and just heading home with their last loads. I went past Ominica camp and pulled in and slept at the Messalinka camp. I left there around nine in the morning and 25 kilometers later started the climb up into the mountains. From this point on I knew I would have the road all to myself, so I only called my mileage when I knew I was coming to a bad spot on the road. I climbed up and around the base of Johanson Mountain, through Johanson Pass and then past, yes you guessed it, Johanson Lake. I stopped there to make myself some lunch. At this point I was long past meeting or seeing any signs of civilization this far back in the mountains and I knew I
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I couldn’t single up off the trailer or my drivers because they had Dayton wheels and I was running aluminum Bud wheels on the steering axle. I knew that the next truck would not be coming in for a couple days so the only thing I could do at that point was try to fix the tire myself. First I dug out my jack and took the tire off. At this point I really had no idea what I was going to do, so I started rummaging through my jockey box and came up with a foot and a half long tire iron and a ten pound short handled sledge hammer. The bead had been broken so I went work with the tire iron and a big screw driver and after about an hour and a half, I finally got the tire off the rim. At this point I sat down and drank the last cup of coffee from my thermos which really didn’t matter because all the odds pointed to the fact that I might be here for quite a long time. I checked out the inside of the tire and it looked okay, so I started on the rim. I laid it on the rock that I had hit and beat on it with the big hammer. It was not good enough so I beat on it some more, and some more, and then some more. It finally was looking pretty good so I finished off by fine tuning it with a ball peen hammer. This took me less than an hour, but the tough part was yet to come - putting the tire back on the wheel. I finally got it on after sweet-talking it with most of the encouraging words that I learned during my stint in the Navy. Unfortunately the old truck didn’t have enough wind in it’s compressor to inflate it and set the bead. Not to worry,
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I thought, I have can of starter fluid in the truck. The old time truckers and loggers will know what I’m talking about here. This system was used a lot on skidder and loader tires when you were out in the bush and only had a small compressor that did not get up enough pressure to set the bead in the rim. I had seen it done before but I had never needed to do it myself. The way it works is you shoot some starter fluid into the tire and then light it. The resulting explosion inside blows the tire out and sets the bead. The problem is you never know exactly how much starter fluid is in the tire. Now I know what you must be thinking, and you can be sure that I wasn’t too happy having to use this method either, but it was my only option at this point. I shot some starter fluid in the tire and then I had to find some matches because, contrary to popular belief, I’m not a complete fool and there was no way I was going to sit on the tire and light it with my lighter. I found some matches and then started out by lighting a match and throwing it at the tire from what I hoped was a safe distance but the matches kept blowing out, so I moved in a little closer. This went on until I was almost sitting on the tire, and almost out of matches. Suddenly it caught and there was this big whump! Which made me jump about three feet in the air, but it worked like a charm and the bead set. I then proceeded to fill the tire with air and although I had to change my underwear, I did get to the mine that night and I had a great tale to tell. r
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Driving Through my Memories
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Ed has held a commercial drivers license for 60 years and has spent the better part of 50 years on the road. You can get Ed’s new book at www.drivingthroughmymemories.ca If the words Argo, Sangamo, Kienzle or VDO make your stomach churn then you are probably an OTR veteran going back 30, 40 or 50 years and maybe more. Other terms equally detestable might be tach cards, clocks, tachographs and if you drove a B61 Mack or an early W900 with a butterfly hood you can probably remember opening the door of someone’s cab and seeing a square red box and often round time cards lying on the floor under the seat. Other widgets and gewgaws not seen anymore, and perhaps unfamiliar to the youngsters in the biz today, are the compression release cable for early Cummins engines, the throttle cable on the dash one pulled out to set the idle speed (it was the cruise control back then), the wig-wag drop down low air indicator, the box heater under the dash on the passenger side with little doors to let the heat out, the hole in the wall in conventional tractors which one had to crawl through to get into the non-integrated sleeper with its rubber boot, Mercury sleepers, the emergency exit door on the side of the sleeper and the manually activated emergency brake (that seldom worked) before the tractor protection valve (the yellow button on the dash) became standard for parking, two-stick trannies and outboard oil bath air
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in order to ascertain speed and distance covered which could, and often did, result in the issuance of a summons for speeding. These cards were also confiscated and used as evidence in the event of a highway accident or incident. As time progressed so did the sophistication of these unpopular devices and a 7 day card became available and only had to be replaced once a week. These instruments were not tamperproof and many drivers bent the stylus which scratched a fine line in the wax-coated paper discs that recorded the activity of the vehicle. Others would simply either “forget” to install a card or “forget” to replace a card and the stylus would keep on tracking speed and rpms until the card was unreadable even by the most expert of technicians. Little scratches, bits of grit made reading very difficult at times and a lot of drivers were intentionally careless when writing the date, unit number and their names in the appropriate spaces in the centre of the card. Digital tachographs then were brought into play to minimize the tampering and utilized cards like a credit card with a microchip that was pretty much tamperproof. These were not used widely in the North American commercial environment but are still used in some jurisdictions in Europe. Instead the authorities on this side of the Atlantic Ocean are forging ahead with their own legal requirements for keeping track of modern-day asphalt engineers. The US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued its mandate for the EOBR (electronic on-board recorder), or the simpler term ELD (electronic logging device), which will likely become mandatory sometime in 2016. Naturally this
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Reflections Thru My Windshield By Dave Madill Dave was Pro-Trucker Magazine’s Rig of the Month in June of 2001 Creative Thinking I go through this magazine and others and it strikes me as how creative truck drivers are as a group then I stop and realize why. We spend so much time alone that our brains need something to work on to keep it occupied over all the long hours. Stop for a moment and look at the normal long haul driver and count up the hours they spend alone. They leave home and drive or are driven to the terminal then after a short time they back under a trailer and head out on that 3 day run. Once leaving the terminal they will drive up to 13 hours with nothing but the CB and the stereo to keep them company except for a couple coffee breaks and a lunch break. They pull into some lonely truck stop, fuel up and take a shower and then sit for maybe an hour with people they mostly don’t know then head back out to that old truck. Eight hours in the sleeper and its up and grab a coffee and head out for another 13 hour day. This goes on for three days then they deliver their load, (usually at a
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Then comes a Truck show and the real nature of our drivers comes out as they mix and mingle with others who also know the feeling of the open road and the far horizon. Sure there may be the occasional bad word but for the most part these gatherings are fun for all even if you figure the wrong guy/gal got the trophy you wanted. We have our party and guess what --- we turn around and go back out on that long and lonesome road while our families wait and pray at home. Keep up the good work drivers and make sure you thank that partner of yours that waits at home to give you the freedom of the open road and allows those creative thoughts and writings we all enjoy.
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Chase and Baking Soda Hi guys, We are settling in with most everything brand new on our old girl the “Grey Goose.” Some of the other drivers ask us when we will replace the old truck but my reply is always, “Why replace the greatest truck in the fleet.” Yeah, it may be an 87 International, with a manual 3406 B model Cat but it gets the same number of loads as the flashy new ones. The best part is we don’t have a truck payment, only repairs that we can conveniently schedule during the better months. Our regular readers will know about some of the blunders that Dennis has made over the years so they won’t be surprised by the Baking Soda story. It started out one Friday night when Dennis decided that he was going to
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save Yvonne the trouble and clean his stainless steel thermos himself. He knew how she did it but, as usual, in his infinite wisdom, he thought he could do it better. First he whipped up a batch of water and baking soda and put it in his thermos to clean out the gunk that had accumulated over the winter. After a few hours I suggest it was time to rinse the concoction out of the thermos but he gave me that smug, almost human look of his, and said, “I think we should let it age overnight.” In the morning I again did the Poodle Shuffle by the counter and pointed at the thermos. Dennis remarked that a few more hours would get the thermos. “spic and span.” He then headed out to the shop - which is really a shop in name only. We greased the truck and Marpole’s trailer, checked all fluid levels, and tightened a few loose things. We then headed to the house for breakfast and the first coffee of the day. I again wore myself out trying to get Dennis to dump his thermos and give it a rinse. Same reply as before, just let it soak a little longer – there’s no accounting for this stubborn human. We headed back out to give the “Goose” a bath and just like her namesake the Goose loves a good soaking. This reminded me of the Thermos but just as quickly I forgot about it. When Monday morning rolled around and I tried once more to get Dennis to flush the thermos but all he did was
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We managed to make it through the day after a pit stop at the Chemainus CO-Op for donuts, water, and a big bottle of Gaviscon. When we got home, Yvonne said that she would leave the driving to him if he would leave the cleaning to her.
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Old dogs n shiny puppies Silently towering on a slab of polished concrete, in the corner of the Big Rig shown n shine, stood a decades old gun metal grey Hayes. It’s years of hard labour belied by a highly polished exterior. With a quick visual of the VIN plate and some rusty math I marveled at the fifty year old behemoth. This Hayes’ sheer magnitude and rough lines made me think of it more as the warrior of ancient Greece, Achilles, only of the off road variety. Over the course of the two days I attended the show, my attention was drawn to the old dog, with my visits becoming an hourly thing. Across the way, low to the ground like a stretched out new puppy, laid a pearl white Pete. Just like anything in it’s
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infancy it had a fresh skin, and unlike Achilles across the way, had not yet experienced the rigors of battle to mar its pristine outer shell. Do not be misled by what may appear to be a condescending tone in my writing. This newborn pup was a thing of beauty, the builders and polishers alike, had paid close attention to every detail. The clean lines and white paint made it look as smooth as a freshly poured bowl of milk. It’s interior and engine compartment were touched with state of the art carbon fibre and vinyl dipped accents, making it an eye catching masterpiece. For a spell I watched as crowds thronged around the Pete, enamoured by the bling and gloss. With his muscled arms folded across his chest Achilles, the Hayes stood on his own, like an old warrior often does, uncaring for pomp and pageantry. I think it will be quite interesting to see where both of these amazing beasts will be in another fifty years. My monies on the warrior. ***** I just received my tax return for 2013 back from Revenue Canada and it puzzles me!!! They are questioning how many dependents I claimed. Under the line: “List all dependents” I wrote: 1 million crack heads; 7.3 million unemployed people, 100,000 people in prisons; 105 Senators and 308 Members of Parliament. Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer. I keep asking myself, who did I miss?
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Perspective To him it is another trip, one more load to haul To her it’s several lonely nights, waiting for his call. To him it is a thing of steel that keeps him safe and warm To her it is a rival that holds him in her arms. To him it is a place to work, that keeps his family fed To her it is a mistress that lures him to her bed. You look at life so differently because of where you stand, But the future lies before you, and you must face it hand-in-hand. Both must learn a different look; see through each other’s eyes, Communication is the bridge that reaches side to side. For love, it is a river, that gets stronger as it rides; But we must have the bridges to get from side to side.
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