SHREK1
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Just thought I should post this. Been travelling up and down roads for many years relatively trouble free. Well that came to an end Thursday.
Was headed up to the Grizzly Lodge on Thursday and road was the busiest I’ve seen, chained up at the highway, tuned in the radio and did a radio check and up we started. Meet 6 loaded coming down, a few pickups and trailers and was all good, had good communication with everyone, had a little delay at the 12 km hill getting getting the 3 in our group to the 14 km pull out but all went well again great communication with everyone, met 2 loaded loggers coming down and we passed there. Called out we were leaving 14 km and off we went, got to km 15 and called again and heard nothing coming down, got to 15 1/4 and just come up to the corner and here comes a lifted pick up with a deck and 2 sleds on it, I stopped and he hit his brakes and came at me sideways, damaged started at my truck mirror and destroyed the side of my truck from there back, the sled deck eventually slammed into my trailer and sheared the deck right off his truck, his sled with it. His truck finally stopped completely passed my trailer.
We get out and the first thing he does is say we did not call out, we did a radio check and you could hear me in his radio so he had a radio that could hear out of but we could not hear him, he said he was only doing 40 - 60km. He came onto the 670 at 18km and this happened at 15 1/4 so not a lot of time to get a feel for what is going on
The reason for this post is to bring awareness to responsible use of them, first always have a radio, make sure you can transmit and receive calls, then drive like the guy you meet does not have a radio. All this could of been avoided if both sides operated like this.
This has ended my sledding season, sure to cost me a pretty penny, and sure to deter me to a point on where my trips will be to.
The good is my 2 boys and a buddy was with me and no one got hurt.
thanks and please be safe
Was headed up to the Grizzly Lodge on Thursday and road was the busiest I’ve seen, chained up at the highway, tuned in the radio and did a radio check and up we started. Meet 6 loaded coming down, a few pickups and trailers and was all good, had good communication with everyone, had a little delay at the 12 km hill getting getting the 3 in our group to the 14 km pull out but all went well again great communication with everyone, met 2 loaded loggers coming down and we passed there. Called out we were leaving 14 km and off we went, got to km 15 and called again and heard nothing coming down, got to 15 1/4 and just come up to the corner and here comes a lifted pick up with a deck and 2 sleds on it, I stopped and he hit his brakes and came at me sideways, damaged started at my truck mirror and destroyed the side of my truck from there back, the sled deck eventually slammed into my trailer and sheared the deck right off his truck, his sled with it. His truck finally stopped completely passed my trailer.
We get out and the first thing he does is say we did not call out, we did a radio check and you could hear me in his radio so he had a radio that could hear out of but we could not hear him, he said he was only doing 40 - 60km. He came onto the 670 at 18km and this happened at 15 1/4 so not a lot of time to get a feel for what is going on
The reason for this post is to bring awareness to responsible use of them, first always have a radio, make sure you can transmit and receive calls, then drive like the guy you meet does not have a radio. All this could of been avoided if both sides operated like this.
This has ended my sledding season, sure to cost me a pretty penny, and sure to deter me to a point on where my trips will be to.
The good is my 2 boys and a buddy was with me and no one got hurt.
thanks and please be safe
