Disappointed. Title of vid is Lumby. The big rig you passed is from a company called Sutco not Chambers. It is not actually a truck. Legally it is a tractor with two semi trailers. A rig like that is known as a B Train. Because it has three axles under the back of the lead trailer it is called a SUPER B. Commonly called a chip truck it is used to haul chips, to a pulp mill. Chips are a specific size of wood used to make pulp. The pulp then goes to a mill where it is turned into paper. It also hauls Hog Fuel which is waste material; sawdust, bark, branches, leaves, etc, from a sawmill and is burned in pulp mills to heat steam boilers to create electricity. A small pulp mill can produce enough electricity to power a small town but BC Hydro refuses to buy it from them. They also haul sawdust which is used in kitchen stoves, furnaces to heat the home, or in a plant to make fibre board. DCT or Dan Chambers Transport is BC's largest chip truck carrier. Their head office is in Vernon, but they originated in Lumby. In the early 70's. Their office and shop was on the highway in the middle of town. They hauled chips from the sawmills in Lumby to the pulp mill in Kamloops. A driver got $20 per load. My fist job driving big trucks was hauling logs through Cherryville to the mills in Lumby. That also paid $20 per load. I got my training by riding with the drivers of Dan Chambers on their Kamloops runs. So I am disappointed that in a vid called Lumby, I didn't get to see Lumby. Arrow and Herseys were the two companies in Duncan. Those companies, before B trains were invented, used truck and trailer and shorter dumps at Harmac and they had to separate the truck from the trailer so they had to chain the trailer to the dump platform. With the longer rigs and longer dump platforms they no longer chain them. They don't dump onto the ground, they dump into huge hoppers which use conveyors or blowers to move the product to large storage piles.
Love Lumby my brother and his family lived there and my mom as well.
I love seeing these videos as I have never heard of these place. Makes me want to take a road trip with my friend
🤗❤great trip!
Disappointed. Title of vid is Lumby. The big rig you passed is from a company called Sutco not Chambers. It is not actually a truck. Legally it is a tractor with two semi trailers. A rig like that is known as a B Train. Because it has three axles under the back of the lead trailer it is called a SUPER B. Commonly called a chip truck it is used to haul chips, to a pulp mill. Chips are a specific size of wood used to make pulp. The pulp then goes to a mill where it is turned into paper. It also hauls Hog Fuel which is waste material; sawdust, bark, branches, leaves, etc, from a sawmill and is burned in pulp mills to heat steam boilers to create electricity. A small pulp mill can produce enough electricity to power a small town but BC Hydro refuses to buy it from them. They also haul sawdust which is used in kitchen stoves, furnaces to heat the home, or in a plant to make fibre board. DCT or Dan Chambers Transport is BC's largest chip truck carrier. Their head office is in Vernon, but they originated in Lumby. In the early 70's. Their office and shop was on the highway in the middle of town. They hauled chips from the sawmills in Lumby to the pulp mill in Kamloops. A driver got $20 per load. My fist job driving big trucks was hauling logs through Cherryville to the mills in Lumby. That also paid $20 per load. I got my training by riding with the drivers of Dan Chambers on their Kamloops runs. So I am disappointed that in a vid called Lumby, I didn't get to see Lumby. Arrow and Herseys were the two companies in Duncan. Those companies, before B trains were invented, used truck and trailer and shorter dumps at Harmac and they had to separate the truck from the trailer so they had to chain the trailer to the dump platform. With the longer rigs and longer dump platforms they no longer chain them. They don't dump onto the ground, they dump into huge hoppers which use conveyors or blowers to move the product to large storage piles.