Since our last trip to the Rockies, we were offered two other jobs, but Mick turned them down because they could not be done, so we were stuck in Calgary for Nearly 3 days without any work.
When we eventually got a load, we ran it to Lethbridge and parked up for the night .
After a none eventful first day, we planned on setting off early and running to within a hundred miles from the drop.
The first few hours of the journey went well, then we ran into some really bad weather, high winds and snow drifting across the highway. we had a few trucks overtake us blinding us with their snow clouds, but as one truck passed us, he hit a snowbank in the second lane, and completely blinded us causing Mick to swerve as we too hit the snow bank, the next thing we were heading towards the central reservation(median).
Mick managed to keep the rig upright, and, as there was nobody on the opposite highway he went straight onto there and got across to the hard shoulder where he pulled up.
He tried to drive slowly to the next on ramp so he could get off the highway, but decided to stop because the visibility was getting too bad.
If there had of been something coming towards us on the westbound side when he swerved he said he would have had to just bury it in the snow in the centre, like we had seen two other trucks further back.
We had to wait for the Police to arrive to escort us to a crossover point, back to the correct side of the road.
After Micks documents had been checked by the Police officer, we went up to the next exit where Mick checked for damage and cleared snow out of the engine compartment, then we carried on driving for another two hours.
At this time a traffic advisory had been issued, and with two foot snowdrifts in places across the road, we pulled off to a truck stop, where we were lucky to get a spot as an hour later the place was packed with sensible drivers.
Whilst I was quite shook up by the whole incident Mick was fine, so he sent a message back to the company giving them the information about the incident. Today we left the truck stop at 3am, to try and get the load delivered as soon as possible, as we knew it would be late because of what happened yesterday.
As we got on to the highway, we were soon passing other cars and trucks which had ditched in the bad weather, including one semi on it's side, so we were indeed very lucky.
Thanks to my husband Mick for, no truck damage and delivering the load (even though it was late), and for the way you handled this incident.
We sit in the truck stop waiting for another job now because we were asked to do two different pick ups, which we could not possibly do because we started at 3 in the morning, and finished at
2.30 in the afternoon, and they wanted them doing in the evening.
As I type he has been offered a run to be picked up 300 miles from where we are on Monday morning which he has just accepted.
To all you Truckers, be careful out there.
The owner, Lorraine, showed us around the house, which was really spooky considering that Micks Grandmother and grandfather had walked through the same rooms many years before.
