Gold Rush Super Duty
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I like the show. It's filmed in my home province and the head offices and truck yards are about 10 miles away.
I've been on an ice road, but only a few miles or so. During the winter...absolutely fiercely cold temps out here, are such that you don't want to be broken down or out of fuel on a lonely road (ice or regular) in the bush.
The show I'm sure, like all shows is enhanced through editing...but I still have a lot of respect for commercial drivers taking loads north on ice roads.
It was interesting to see that F 350 help the semi out of the snow.
I recall once (about 40 years ago) ending up in heavily snowed in ditch in a back country road up here. I was driving a fully loaded E 300 (forerunner of the E 350) commercial van and I was stuck real good.
Fortunately I was able to get a farmer to help me out. He had an F 800 , tandem axle grain truck. He hitched up and gave me a yank. Nothing. He then backed up....and hammered the throttle of the F 800...he reached the end of the tow chain....the F 800 slowed slightly...but weight, motivation, traction and a hard foot on the pedal jerked out the E 300. Fortunately there was no damage.
I was delivering frozen pizza to supermarkets and a case of large pepperoni deluxe suited him just fine for payment. :)
I've been on an ice road, but only a few miles or so. During the winter...absolutely fiercely cold temps out here, are such that you don't want to be broken down or out of fuel on a lonely road (ice or regular) in the bush.
The show I'm sure, like all shows is enhanced through editing...but I still have a lot of respect for commercial drivers taking loads north on ice roads.
It was interesting to see that F 350 help the semi out of the snow.
I recall once (about 40 years ago) ending up in heavily snowed in ditch in a back country road up here. I was driving a fully loaded E 300 (forerunner of the E 350) commercial van and I was stuck real good.
Fortunately I was able to get a farmer to help me out. He had an F 800 , tandem axle grain truck. He hitched up and gave me a yank. Nothing. He then backed up....and hammered the throttle of the F 800...he reached the end of the tow chain....the F 800 slowed slightly...but weight, motivation, traction and a hard foot on the pedal jerked out the E 300. Fortunately there was no damage.
I was delivering frozen pizza to supermarkets and a case of large pepperoni deluxe suited him just fine for payment. :)
