Tag: Carlile Transportation

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Roadside Attractions
New life for old classics, Love’s connect app, the Aurora Borealis and more industry news and oddities are featured.
April 1, 2012
This 1974 Evel Knievel haul rig is only one of the classic truck restoration projects taken on by BPW Transport owner Brad Wike.
Channel 19
Channel 19 week in pictures: Northern lights, NASCAR
Lights, camera …Carlile Transportation driver Dave Johnston photographed his rig and the Aurora Borealis “just north of Coldfoot,” he says, on Alaska’s Dalton Highway, where he runs three times weekly from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. With sunspot activity at a peak this winter, the northern lights have been particularly strong. Johnston shared this photo (and […]
March 1, 2012
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Business
Pulling Tanks
Operators find good pay, a less taxing workload and a professional attitude in this steady niche.
November 1, 2011
Tank haulers must watch their speed on curves to avoid situations such as this one, where a slight road grade makes a turn even more precarious.
Business
‘Ice Road Truckers’ returns June 5
History Channel’s show introduces a new female driver on the ice roads of Canada’s Manitoba
May 20, 2011
Maya Sieber joins 'Ice Road Truckers.'
Channel 19
Haul Road to the Himalayas: Interviewing Lisa Kelly
The current “IRT: Deadliest Roads” season of the “Ice Road Truckers” reality-TV series franchise on the History Channel aired its second episode last night, after a launch the previous Sunday that garnered 3.4 million viewers. It pits North American drivers from past seasons, as well as a new face, against the incomparably rugged terrain and […]
October 11, 2010
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Channel 19
A dose of trucking humor, oddities and coverage in the media.
August 1, 2010
Alaskans
Channel 19
Close encounters on the Alaskan ‘Haul Road’
Carlile Transportation driver Jim “J.D.” Dobbs sees “a lot of wildlife” on somewhat regular runs on the Dalton Highway in Alaska to and from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. “Moose, caribou, things of that nature,” he says. “Some are close calls – when you come over a hill on the way to Prudhoe Bay and a large herd […]
June 14, 2010
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Wild game cooking classes spawned by ice-roads coincidence
As Todd L. Disher quipped last week in the lead of his piece for Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper about Carlile Transportation driving instructor Phil Kromm, “it’s only natural an episode of ‘Ice Road Truckers’ would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game.” Kromm, see, is an avid propane griller of wild […]
February 5, 2010
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