If you don’t mind me asking what are you averaging per day? Or like per week? I’m just getting into log trucking after 3 years of dry vans and reefers and excited to learn a new skill!!

@@Pennythebengaltrucker me personally I average $1200-$1300 a week but it all depends on whether you get paid by the hr or by the load/mile

​@viktormironchuk9805 This is a good question for me because I am thinking of shifting to logging but I really don't know much about it.

@@bikinibottom1252 I’m starting training tomorrow, and met my trainer who’s only been doing it for a year, and showed me year to date statement of $78,800 but working 12-14 hours a day… no weekends. Hope that helps… it seems like it’s $350-$450 per day. (Keep in mind I’m only getting this job because of a spotless record and only been driving manual trucks) seems like most loggers are manual trucks! I also live close to Portland OR and none of these liberals here want to work so truckers make great money here… few other places I looked at with my experience level around Porltand/Vancouver will pay 6 figures… but all depends on location since rent here is $1750 or more for a one bedroom

Most of the 49x’s on Vancouver Island are 18 speeds. All of them pretty much.

Breaks is when the driver stops, brakes is when the truck stops.

@@fishkeg Spacibo (thanks). I kind of thought you'd have to match engine torque to the transmission, but wasn't sure how you'd go about it.

so house builders go partying every day after the job?

You said it my friend a person realizes when you get old I missed my whole family growing up working in the patch

Gave me the same impression.

Hi fdr

@@That._countrykid hi

@@FDRLogging now we Know the one and only fdr logging replies lol

Daimler owns Feightliner, who manufactures the Western Star line of trucks. At one time White owned Western Star. The name has changed hands a few times over the years.

@@markwalton5138 Wow, I sell tractors and the same game of musical chairs is going on there.

You have no idea what logging in British Columbia is like. What a stupid , arrogant comment . We also run tri-drive ,quad axle trailers. 63,500 kg on highway and over 100,000kg off highway. Vancouver Island is a big rock and extremely steep haul roads.

@@bmdbigfeet1031 and hence why we are looking at drivers with that experience, so not an arrogant comment at all.

@@jamesgollan8602 Might want to reread your comment. "And really drive a logging truck" . Like we're soft over here and the hauling is a cake walk. Maybe you should come to British Columbia and really drive a logging truck. You'll get a taste of winter. Think of all the tire chain you gotta throw two, three times a day . Two sets and maybe a drag on the trailer. Come on over, we're desperate for drivers that can speak English and haul logs.

@@bmdbigfeet1031 On average we throw 9 chains per load, up to four times a day. Lucky we don't have to use tyre chains as units are fitted with CTI and although it can get icy, with snow thrown in we seem to get away without tyre chains. Before we bought a fleet of trucks I did consider driving in BC or similar but you guys sit on the wrong side of the truck

Agreed. It's challenging even on a good day. Best work I've ever done in 40 plus years of driving. We hauled the finished logs to home sites. The real tough job was getting that wood out of the bush by you guys. Mad respect for everyone involed!

You're not too bright. Logging actually helps the environment by reducing the dead fuel left behind when trees die, better irrigation, more natural water retention, and of course the logging industry MUST replant what they harvest. Typical dumbass liberal running your mouth yet know nothing of the true facts, and the way the real world works. Let me guess, you're vaccinated too right???

I am English and we have been pronouncing Daimler like one would say "aim" or how Americans say "dame", for over a hundred years since they started producing vehicles in UK. We also pronounce Volkswagen " Volkswagon" and Nissan as "Niss an", not like the North Americans "Neesarn". I can honestly say I have never heard them pronounced "Dimeler", even when I used to visit the Mercedes-Benz factory Germany in the 1980s, which they were known as Daimler-Benz, and they were pronouncing it "Deemler" with a bit of "Dimmler" mixed in. I'm not saying I'm right and I'm not saying he's wrong. It sounded funny to me and I do think it does sound cheaper than the way the British say it.

@Fishkeg. Please read again my reply to your question to me asking how do pronounce Daimler. I did say I wasn't right or the way the fellow said it on the video was wrong. I did say I thought it was funny, hence the tongue in cheek reply I gave in my first reply to the video.I didn't say it irritated me, nor does it. In fact I found it amusing. Another thing I and some traveling companions on one of our countless trips to Germany we came upon an American also traveling on motorbikes, like us he didn't speak the lingo but for some reason when he spoke to a German he would put on a German accent and sounded like Private Shultz, we thought he was having a joke , he wasn't and he had convinced himself that talking like a German speaking English he had a good command of the language and on our last day together he asked where we were going and my freind answered Munich, and he said "oh thats a pity I'm going to Munchen ,we could of spent the last day together ".We all had a laugh at his expence, him included.

Either log them or let them burn down

If they didn’t, they would go out of business.

Little known fact a forest that’s been cut to remove older trees is healthier than an untouched forest and less susceptible to forest fires