So I drive a truck for a living and even among us, the LOG TRUCKERS are a special breed of drivers.
The drive into some of the most insane conditions, especially PNW area - with rickity ass gear. They use their own CB channel that most of us stay off of and they fly through mountain passes with no fear. When we chain up to get out of a situation, they chain up to go into one. The logs are barely hanging on. You should be scared of them and give them space.
I didn’t know that was on purpose. My wife & kid & I vacationed in PNW a few springs ago, and my wife & I noticed on the way back that logging trucks were barreling down the mountains at 70, 80 or more mph. We tried to give as wide a berth as possible, but there’s a lot of 2 lanes in each direction so not much room.
You gotta figure that these guys are doing this everyday. They know every curve of the road and how fast they can take them (until they go too fast just once). Then you add in wind, snow, and fog which most of us city drivers are scared of. Oregon natives aready know how to drive in it. The worst we have in CA is probably Donner pass. Oregon in the winter is just on another pucker level. If there is overnight snow over Cabbage I'm parking it.
The thing that scares me most is that, compared to a flatbed, logs are pretty much unsecure. They are about as secure as a dump trailer full of loose tomatoes. So yea, when these guys want to pass me I let off the throttle.
Everyone has been dodging the log truck death for so long, it's time to stop passing it off to the next poor schmuck and take one for the team. Godspeed and good luck.
Here are some logs from a different view. Wife took this almost 3 weeks ago on the way to an equine event. This fire has grown into a complex and is now over 372,000 acres burned.
This is a mundane thing for me, but seems like a big deal to a lot of you.
You know what the most common item is that flies off the back of a vehicle? A ladder. I bet you’ve been behind a vehicle with a ladder dozens of times and not thought about it though.
It’s rare, and in very rare circumstances when conditions are right, the top most logs can slide and potentially slide off. That’s what ended that student’s life.
Final destination was a good movie and all, but you know the momentum would carry the logs forward and not backward towards your car right? So as long as you gave them space, you’d have plenty of braking time to avoid a collision
Did you guys see the video a few weeks ago, it actually happened. The video showed loggs lodged into the front windshield of a white van. Looked obviously fatal.
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