A recruitment film for Big State Logistics in Fairbanks, Alaska. We drove all the way from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and filmed trucks the entire way. Directed by: Micah Fairchild Booking: www.fairchild.media
O-H-I-O Porter greetings.🇺🇸 I come from a trucking family that started in the 1930s. My dad got into trucking, helped his brothers out by getting them into trucking & all of us boys have trucked at some point in our lives. I enjoy the open road, being a team player & really enjoy trucking. It’s a rare breed anymore. You showed some beautiful territory & show some incredible aspects of trucking. Double tankers…what a chill that runs through me when I saw them in this video. Lots of responsibility comes with doubles. Good stuff! 🥰🤩✌️
Awesome productions man! I myself don’t drive big rigs but it’s in the family. Between my dad and family members there is a lot of intersecting stories to be shared. As a fellow cinematographer I admire your work and hope to one day get some of these stories out on the RU-vid scene for others to enjoy. - Jp
@@TT.4_ a number of things to be honest with you. I would say my biggest hurdle is the fact that I have previously suffered from epilepsy other then that I am not a Canadian American or a Alaskan national or citizen.
I currently drive flatbed. My goal and dream is to be able to drive through Alaska one day. Trying to get into heavy haul so I can do this. Wondering if being a tanker would be a better idea though after watching this video lol
It’s true when he saying this place will take your breath away . Walahi it’s soo gorgeous and amazing …… you’ll realize how GOD make this beautiful land just people know how easy for him to create what and how he want it ….
This job really does separate the men from the boys. I never drove trucks up there. The closest I came was driving narrow two lane snow covered roads in Vermont a few times and that could be scary enough. In Alaska you learn to take nothing for granted because if you break down then you're on your own.
The easiest trucking I have ever done was up here. Is it challenging? Yes! Is it dangerous, sure, but the stress that's not up here and what I left down south.....ill never truck in the 48 again! 1.5 million miles down there and I'll take alaska driving any day.
@@dano8613 Yes down here in the 48 its the city driving or just passing thru them that's a challenge. You don't have much of that. I hate city driving and now days I'm retired and I stay away from them.
@muffs55mercury61 I remember when that snow storm went thru Atlanta a few years back, I was stuck on the bypass 1 exit from I 75 lol. The thing is, there isn't any hard turning. Must Alaskan drivers can't back up very well. The only challenge up here is the remoteness, so to speak. Sure, going north is rough, and the snow/ cold can be deadly, but most haul road drivers prefer the winter over the other seasons because it's a smoother, better ride, lol. The thing I'm learning is that you better be able to fix your own truck in a bind because you don't roadside, lol. The company I work for had our own wrecker because it's faster and cheaper if a driver can't get himself fixed. They also provide tools (hand tools) to change a tire or chain an axle if need be. Also, most drivers up here, regardless of the company, had that mentality where if one has a problem, then we all do. On my 1st trip north, I had the dunnage topple, and the front of my pipe was bouncing. I stopped at the Dalton hwy sign to fix it, 3 different trucks stopped to help because they didn't know if i had real issues. Fyi, if anyone reading this wants a change, many companies up here are hiring drivers. Just Google companies in the fairbanks area and start calling. Off the top of my head would recommend Alaska West & Black Gold, i work for AWE and the benefits are amazing and black gold is in a hiring frenzy for their TOK to ft Knox (fairbanks) run.
My dad has been a trucker since '93 and talked me out of following his footsteps. It might look like fun if you're watching it, but the truth is, the driver is sacrificing a lot for very little reward. It ain't worth it. If they figure out just how important the trucking industry is and how to properly compensate drivers for their time, effort, and sacrifice, then maybe give it a shot. But you have to be fully committed, if you want to make a career out of it.
I've driven it myself many times as well. There's a big difference between driving it in a personal vehicle once or twice a year and driving it twice a week year round with 50 feet of heavy trailer in the back.
