HEAVY HAULING OVER ATIGUN PASS 

It's quite the adventure

Molto bene

Very steep

What was causing that? At least the cab was warm i bet!

@@TaigaTurf just hauling heavy, loaded to maximum weight the truck could handle

@@Frank-bf6ez Serious trucking for sure

What always amazed me is the temperature swings on hills. It could be zero on top of beaver slide and -40 at the bottom. I worked out of PS5 for over 6 years and then up and down the line north of Fairbanks for over 9 years. I was in a four wheeler and was on the road a lot many times doing 300-400 miles a day. I have some experience driving tractor trailers in the early 80s on the slope before a CDL was needed up there. And from my experience of that you couldn’t pay me to drive a big truck on the road. I was never in to much of a hurry to not slow way down or stop to let a truck go by or have the hills. I was at PS4 a winter and would drive to Fairbanks at the end of shift. I’d leave in the early morning hours before someone told me the pass was closed so I could get home. I took a lot of pictures.

@@Chris_at_Home Pump Station 2 usually seems to be about 10 degrees colder, if not more than the coast.. But much calmer. Ditto on the hill top inversions

colder than 40 Below Zero

Definitely

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