Blk prince
Senior Member
Some thefts boggle the mind.Timberwest took delivery of 2 Mack log trucks.One parked in Ladysmith,driver John Carmichael, starts from here,does walk around and all 8 drive tires are gone,at least it was left on blocks.
Vigilant No its old growth red cedar. We don't get involved with the pis#-pot trucks and the second growth. Every now and then we will get sent into a second growth loader and haul a load of camp run but for the most part there is a uneasy tolerance between highway trucks and the REAL TRUCKS!!! They cant function without calling at every Christmas tree on the road both empty and loaded whereas we drive like there is a loaded truck around every corner. The loaded truck calls and has the right of way and the empty truck listens and gets out of the way-- Very simple Not rocket science no need for a bunch of radio pollution. Black Prince Sometimes depending on where you end up you have to leave the truck where ever with the load on. At Franklin we use to stand the load up on its legs over nite or on a weekend but with things the way they are today you just park. It gets bad sometimes when you have to leave your truck in the bush or along the mainline like maybe old Camp"B" on a weekend because you can be sure that at least the fuel tank will take a hit and anything you have in the truck will be gone, Cripes even the cinch lines and cinch bars will disappear off the load. One of the timber sale contract trucks a few years ago was parked on Northfork Main and they came out on Monday morning and a couple trailer tires and wheel wedges even the spacer was gone. These were 1400:X25 tires. NOT SAFE IN THE FOREST ANYMORE!!!
Yes-- funny as it sounds I lock the doors every nite LOL old habits. No to all the trucks working There is usually 16 big ones working every day and a few spares standing by. A couple are waiting to go down to the Chemainus rebuild shop and get some attention before going back into action. As for the dispatcher YES we have one of our old drivers Gary Cathers was hired by WFP to be the dispatcher. He dispatch's the highway trucks as well as the off-highway trucks. I don't know how many highway trucks there are but there is LOTS!!! Somebody asked what IPL was like to work for!!! Well I have worked for them for 6 years and it has been some of the best years in my career. All they ask is for you to do your job Do it safely and look after your equipment. SIMPLE!!! In todays logging industry there is very few companies that have an owner that has a hands on approach to its daily operation. I enjoy working for them!!!
no..I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that there is at least one decent outfit left up your way, but I am also puzzled. Isn't IPL owned by Weyco? The atmosphere you described is not true to form for Weyco itself in this day and age.
Thanks Steve for the pictures! if you or anyone else has any pics when she was painted the Red and White or better yet Appache yellow IJamie Bracht with H-194 and lowbed getting ready to go to Ritchie Bros. auction.
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OH BOY I think our owner just had the big one!!! Weyco is long gone from the logging up this way Vigilant. Too bad they did what they did up here in the forest industry. No- IPL is a single owner with long standing ties to the Forest Industry. He is what I guess you would call "OLD SCHOOL". When a couple of us decided to put on the Hayes Truck 90th Anniversary Truck Show here in Port Alberni back in 2012 he rolled up his sleeves and pulled out the stops to help us. He and his oldest son single handedly restored one of the early Hayes HDX's with a fire tanker on it. His highway low-bed with Chad Hopps (the driver ) went back and forth with trucks and equipment all week. It was people like them that made the show as good as it was.