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as the dust settles from the recent electionand reality settles in, we’re left with a choice

on the single issue we solely have control of: ourown attitude. of all the businesses one could beinvolved in (government excluded) natural re-sources in general, and logging in particular,there’s the constant reinforcement that circum-stances change constantly, and those who surviveand thrive are those who can flex, change, andfind the opportunities because you are looking forsolutions.

the temptation for many is to believe the worstcase scenario, and allow that to permeate yourthinking, or worse, your leadership, buying intothe “end of the earth” predicted by some, andhunker down, or be caught grumbling about “howbad things are.” that may be fine for a few fleet-ing moments of solitary thought, then return tothe reality of the present and lead with what youhave and proceed your vision of the future to yourcompany, crew, and others.

the economic engine of our country has provenits resilience over the decades, including the pastfour years. We’re even hearing of longer term con-tracts for loggers in some markets, a trend wehope will continue in recognition of the future de-mand as markets continue an upward trend.

it all starts with your positive attitude, lookingahead, being diverse, progressive and finding op-portunities. one of the chief benefits from being apart of your state logging association comes inknowing and sharing that mindset with otherswho see and think in the same fashion. Positiveminds attract others of the same mind, whereyou’re sharing ideas, and encouraging each other,and exposed to future possibilities.

these are common themes we see amongst thebest contractors in our business, large or small, inany part of the world. Maintaining focus, retain-ing optimism, encouraging and training yourcrew, keeping an eye on efficiency, and doing yourbest, all are factors that are infectious, tangible,

in demand and underyour control.

how we react, adjustand think paves ourown future.

Some humor

marijuana was le-galized in several

states in the past elec-tion cycle, which per-haps explains some of

the incredulous results. regardless of how youfeel about the issue, we feel there may be a solu-tion available to those states who’ve legalizedcannabis, for whatever use, if we take it one stepfurther and not only supply these drugs free butencourage the use within the legislature amongstelected officials, staff and state offices! the bene-fit is two-fold: 1) at least it may provide some rea-soning behind the bizarre legislation we’ve seenfrom those legislatures over the past few decadesand 2) at best, perhaps our legislative memberscould be so anesthetized in their smoke inducedstupor that would do less harm!

Hump bump

while out with idaho logger Mike reynoldswe traveled to a project on idaho Depart-

ment of lands (iDl), which reynolds had earlierwarned me was some pretty rough roads, whichturned out to be no understatement. the site wascalled “hump Bump” whose origin was apparentas you approached the site, and the rolling ter-rain we were on for a good hour plus on the wayup (and of course on the return run). “they callthem rolling dips,” reynolds explained, noting itwas designed for run-off erosion control. “theysay it works, rather than culverts and ditches.”We had no opportunity to talk with anyone fromiDl, but we assume they have a record of successwith these, and thus so be it.

What we will assure you is that these “humpbump” style of erosion control represents theworst logging road i’ve ever been on, somethingwhich most of the loggers working the site agreedwith. While certainly not quite as bad as thebombed fields of Vietnam, the construction ofthese erosion barriers would be challengingenough every mile or two, but these were situatedevery few hundred feet as you climbed a few thou-sand feet up to the logging site. each of thesestructures started with a hump maybe 12-14inches, immediately followed by a rolling drop

over perhaps 15-20 feet, bottoming in a bit per-haps 20 inches down in the middle of that drop,then bring it back up on the other side with an-other hump. it may not have been quite that se-vere, however as reynolds had warned at first, itdid take an hour or more in each direction andseemed to be as much a deterrent to travel ingeneral as it was for erosion control. your “speed”on such a road would be 10-15 miles an hour max,though i’m sure there are some hearty souls thatmight take it at 20 (perhaps in someone else’struck?), they do so at their own peril.

taking this road with an empty, yet aloneloaded, log truck would be a most challengingventure.

this particular unit is a grizzly bear manage-ment unit they’re not even allowed into until July1st. the public should take some comfort at theseextraordinary efforts made to protect their landsand streams.

Forest fire scars

heading over the Santiam Pass to the associ-ated oregon loggers Statewide logging

Safety conference in Bend, oregon we againdrove by the remnants of the B&B complex fire of‘03 where some 94,000 acres were consumed mostof which remains rotting and has lost all value.not everyone would agree this site should havebeen salvaged while there was still value in thewood (which has no value presently). nor wouldeveryone have agreed it should be immediatelyreplanted and regenerated, and thus we have94,000 acres charred remnants as a monument tothe type of management you have with Mothernature. Some would celebrate this as a success.every time we drive by it, especially in light ofcurrent economics, it serves as a reminder of afailed policy and waste of time, money, years oflost growth of the forest, and a very ugly scar onthe landscape.

i’d like to see PBS (Public Broadcasting) makean hour long documentary on the history of thisfire, highlighting those who waged a successfulbattle to block its salvage, and “won” the battleover its current natural management scheme.nearly a decade after the wildfire smoldered toits end, sitting and largely out of public attention,shining the light on this “do nothing” ideologyand reminding the public that those charredblack and grays stick, which used to be a forest, is

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LukE ZaCHaRias, of Joseph,Oregon, hauling in a snowstormoff the top of Whiskey Creek out-side Wallowa. it’s that time of year,when Old Man Winter turns thewoods white with snow and theroads slick with ice. Throw a fewchains, grab a cup of hot cider andcheck out all the great snow truck-ing photos that our readers havesubmitted starting on page 15.

by sherrie bond

so, it’s all over but the shouting(the election, that is and the

swirling backwash that’s a result ofthe 2012 elections). Before i gomuch further, i feel the need to saythat i am grateful for people whothink long and hard about whatthey can do as voters, to make lifebetter for the rest of us. So stated,there are numerous issues thatmake it to the ballot after being in-troduced to the public through ini-tiatives. (you know the ones we areall urged to sign outside our localbig box stores by people who may (ormay not) have any idea what theyare promoting).

one initiative of interest to mewas i 502 - the legalization of mari-juana; a vote that was counted anddeclared a victory long before we fig-ured out who was elected governor!My interest wasn’t about where toshop, but what are the implicationsas far as our industry is concerned?We all know that l & i classifies allfacets of the timber industry as ahigh risk, so what may we be facingas far as premium rate increaseswhen we add a little tch to the

mix? While the initiative passedwith ease, the basis for governanceover the legal issues will require ex-act sculpting before the creases areall ironed out.

for example, marijuana posses-sion becomes “legal” in limitedamounts as of December 6, 2012,but won’t be available for purchasein stores before 2014. What doesthat mean? Well, for one thing, buy-ers will still be purchasing weedfrom Jerry Joint on the corner ofhowmuchuwant avenue and igot-tabong road until then. limitedquantities of marijuana will be de-fined by a “usable” ounce. now, thisis where it gets muddy as the ratiois a “usable ounce” per mix. “us-able” quantities are defined by themethod in which it is available; forexample if infused in a liquid, 72ounces is considered the maximum(i would suppose that to be some-thing like ‘dope in yer coke’), driedleaves alone will be held to oneounce and in marijuana-laced food(such as brownies) the limit is set atone pound … which i find to be to-tally unfair as i don’t know anyonewho can limit themselves to a poundof (unlaced) brownies without want-ing more!! kinda like those infa-

mous potato chips ~ you can’t eatjust one! oh and let’s not discountthe fact that the purchase and pos-session is still illegal under federallaw!

in all seriousness though, begin-ning December 6, 2012 there will benew provisions under the law forDui (drugged driving), so this is nolaughing matter. Duis and posses-sion charges take effect and arepunishable from that date forward.Just like drunk driving where thepoint of intoxication is set at a .08(.04 for commercial drivers) as a cut-off threshold, the guidelines for potare 5 nano grams of active tch permilliliter. law enforcement musthave probable cause that you areimpaired before requiring a bloodtest and as yet it is undeterminedhow the blood testing will occur.this new law also does not changethe state employment laws of drugtesting and firings.

the new law will go throughsome changes before it is set instone, but keep in mind the legisla-ture needs a two-thirds majority tochange or repeal an initiative understate law. it is my guess significantchanges won’t take place prior to2014, but guidelines will have to be

introduced to govern the situation athand before that date.

as i close off my column, for thisyear i want to thank those thathave emailed me with comments orwho get a chuckle out of my tonguein cheek observations. i have nodoubt we will face many challengesin the next few years but, want toleave you with this thought. fordecades the logging industry hasbeen pummeled with vicious slurs ofraping the forests, insensitivity forthe environment and neglect of wisestewardship with which we are en-trusted simply because the tree hug-gers and do-gooders don’t think theindustry should exist. however, letme brighten your day with this tid-bit --- marijuana growers and medi-cal pot distributors are now beingblamed for clear-cutting in nevadacounty, california in an effort tobring more sunlight to the pot-patches planted in forest habitat(and here i thought we had cut thelast tree standing)!

(Sherrie Bond serves as Directorof the northwest log truckers’cooperative. She can be reachedvia email at [email protected])

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originally naming his companyMontero log & lumber transporta-tion, founder andy Montero, now 78,started trucking in 1952 in the Sanfrancisco Bay area.

With his one international Mon-tero began hauling freight, lumberoil and gas between northern andSouthern california. in 1954 hemoved to Bodega, in Sonoma coun-ty, bought a 1946 flat fender andwent to work hauling logs in thesummer and lumber in the winter.in 1956, he upgraded to a new Pe-terbilt and continued to switch backand forth between logs and lumberdepending on the weather condi-tions well into the 1960s. Monterohad a couple of trucks and was haul-ing log and short logs “for everybodyon the coast” between Bodega Bayand fort Bragg.

around 1960, Montero took histrucks to the little backcountry townof Julian in San Diego county. theyhauled big timber from the MountPalomar area to the ports in SanDiego. During that time, the envi-ronmental movement was kicking inand not having the temperament todeal with the “beatniks,” heswitched to hauling lumber, hay,fruit and even pre-fabricated homes.

in 1968, Montero headed northagain to haul logs on a burn in theice house recreational area nearlake tahoe. it was supposed to be acouple years worth of work, but atthe same time, his cousin talkedhim into hauling rock for a largebrokerage firm in auburn. Monterohad six trucks at this point; twowere converted two dump trucks

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Montero’s gig through much of the1970s. after a falling out with thecompany for whom he was hauling,Montero decided to go out on hisown developing his own gravel cus-tomers. he began to update to new-er Peterbilts. Monetero’s businessexpanded along with the boomingconstruction market during the1980s. a multi-million contract tohaul the rock and equipment for afreeway contract gave Montero evenmore of a boost. the job was usingas many as 60 trucks a day, most ofthem sub-haulers working underMontero. While the job may havenot added many trucks to Montero’spersonal fleet, it gave the company alot of strength to do different jobsbecause they had so many trucksmoving around. a contract deliver-ing wet batch concrete for anotherroad construction project followed;

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this time more of Montero’s owntrucks were on the job.

however, with the good comes thebad. Montero was embroiled in mi-nority regulation issues; the fault ofthose hauling for him, but becausehe was the one managing the con-tract, he was ultimately the one thattook the fall and was penalized hun-dreds of thousands of dollars. theend result was that Montero wasforced to sell all but a handful of hisown trucks in order to pay the fine.

By the mid-1990s, constructionhad slowed dramatically. one of therock companies for whom Monterohauled, decided to harvest the tim-ber on a 16,000-acre parcel nearDutch flat, mid-way between Sacra-mento and lake tahoe, near inter-state highway 80. Wah-lah, Mon-tero was back in the log haulingbusiness. they supplied the loggerwith a loader and put one of theirtrucks on the job hauling timber.

Montero’s son tony took over thebusiness – which had changed itsname to simply Montero trucking,in 1997. the company was back totheir roots of excavation and rockhauling. During this same time,Montero also got more involved withmoving equipment, not only fortheir own project, but also for out-side customers including loggers innorthern california and Southernoregon.

another interesting sideline washauling landscape rock betweennorthern california, nevada, idahoand Montana. “People sometimeshave more money than brains,”jokes tony. “they’d pay big moneyfor rock from Montana and idahoand northern california so that theycould have exposed aggregate fire-places and patios in an exotic color.it was pretty nice deal for us for awhile until california environmen-tal regulations interfered killed theexposed aggregate business.”

“the mentality they have in thestate government is that californiais its own little nation,” tony adds.“the regulations here are intenseand that’s one reason that so manypeople don’t want to run in thisstate.”

as the economy tanked, ratesdropped and fuel prices skyrocketed,tony made the realization that ifsomething didn’t change drastically,the business was going along thesame route. By the time 2010 rolledaround, the majority of Montero’saggregate customers had eitherslowed dramatically or gone out ofbusiness. Montero began to down-size their fleet and equipment hold-ings to stay on a level playing field.

other trucking companies mighthave just hung up their keys. tonyadmits that that idea has been dis-cussed a number of times in recentyears, but what he and his father

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have learned over the last 60 yearsis that keeping a business going isalways a challenge no matter thecircumstance.

“even in the best of times, it’s achallenge of trying to balance stressand work and customers anddrivers. My father is as stubborn asa mule and he doesn’t know how toquit – that’s something that is inboth of our natures,” tony says. “Wejust knuckle down and deal with thehard times and wait for better timesto come.”

“trucking is just what we do. it’sa disease,” tony adds with a laugh.“for the most part, we just don’tknow anything else. We do haveequipment, and we do know how todo other things in relation to thetrucking business, but realistically,it’s way to late for us to change.”

Presently, Montero trucking ishauling logs, aggregate and bulk ce-ment. they have a fleet of seventrucks, but the majority of the timethere are four on the road. tonydrives a 2001 Peterbilt that is a“whatever it has to do truck” fromlogs to lowboy to pulling end dump.andy still drives and he’s behind thewheel of a 1998 Petebilt pulling anend dump. Driver Brian Monesseoperates a 1995 Peterbilt logging

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TOny MOnTERO baCk in 1994 with his 1974Peterbilt hauling a three-log load. a side noteabout the truck is that it had no power steering.“none of our trucks had power steering until1997. My father had a philosophical belief thatpower steering was just about anti-religious. Hedidn’t like the way it drove or felt,” Tony says.“He still doesn’t believe in air-conditioning. Hetakes spartin life to a whole new level.”

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in THE Mid 1950s, Montero Log & Lumber Transportation hauledlogs and lumber with a 1946 low mount flat fender Peterbilt. flat fend-ers, available on factory-built log trucks, were more rugged thanthose on standard highway trucks. in those days, recalls Montero, themills were often as difficult to get into as the landings in the woods.

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MOnTERO TRuCking has made much of their success fromrock hauling. Here they are transporting large landscape boul-ders from the quarry floor at Chevro aggregate in Chula Vista. inorder to protect the lightweight materials handling box on the1977 Peterbilt, they first put in a bed of sand.

truck hauling from chester to Quin-cy, california. Doug May operates atransfer carrying ready-mix. Most ofthe logs that they hauled the lastfew seasons have been for robinsonenterprises.

“We’re kind of spread out doing alot of different things. Most of thereason that we survived over thelast five years has been because of

diversification,” tony says, addingthat for the last year, they’ve beenhauling mostly logs and are consid-ering putting another truck on fornext year.

“hauling logs is certainly some-thing that my dad and i have al-ways enjoyed doing. the guys thatwe work with are really nice peopleand the environment is very pleas-ant. there’s a higher level of ethics,professionalism and integrity in thetimber industry than just aboutanything else in which i’ve been in-volved. the people are harder work-

ing, more devoted, less whining, andmost of the guys that we’ve hadhauling logs for us would do whatev-er needed to be done,” tony says.

he adds, however, that log haul-ing is not something that they’restuck on. “if it turns out that there’snot enough money in it, we’re notgoing to do it,” he states.

“our primary interest in thetrucking business isn’t so much a ro-mantic sense; it’s trucking to makea living. if we can make more moneyhauling turnips from one side oftown to the other, then that’s what

we’ll haul.”“We’re successful in that we’ve

survived a wide variety of storms.We’ve done really well when timesare good and we’ve managed to dookay when times were really bad.the ironic part (about downsizing)is that it seems that we keep aboutthe same amount of money at theend of the year whether we run fouror 15 trucks. We’re content withwho we are and what you do andwe’re content with our operation, soi’d say we’re successful.”

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Tony Montero didn’t know quite what he was getting into when a customerasked him to go and pick up some skidders he’d bought. Tony figured it wouldjust be down the road a ways, but it turned out the skidders were in south Car-olina! always up for the challenge, he stacked and lowbed trailer and a truckon top of his own lowbed and hauled them east to pick up the loads.

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Dawn slama: i would like all ofmy friends and customers to have afun, safe, and prosperous holidayseason! oh, and i want my hubbyand i to have a romantic get-awaysomewhere!

forrest waldron: a bumper andnew Pederson bunk gear. and apaint job and new frame rails, newsuspension too. and a cB that canwalk the dog. other than all that,i'm content with what i’ve got.

todd stoffel: Someone to buy allmy extra crap so i can get my truck.

Jeff henke: i’d be happy with

anything for my harley!

brandon Davis: i would like toobe with my son truckin trees; that'sall i want . . not too much to ask fora lil’ father son time.

Darren risseeuw: all i want forchristmas is my two front teeth anda new visor for the ol' timber toter.

Julie Zacher: i just wanna behere to celebrate it.

troy kaelber: Better rates foreveryone.

Johnny magee: number one on

my list would probably be for mywhole family to be in good health;2nd would probably be a brand newlong hood Pete with an iSx 600cummins.

mike hays: a second truck, lotsof work and to truck with my sonand forrest - that would be fun!!

John hayes: Just a c-18 cam formy e model.

randy hobgood: i want a cheapset of straight pipes.

Jeff roberts: a new presidentand a new economy so i can buy abuncher and work for myself.

lacey rice: i want a truck driv-er with a big bank account.

ryan luft: to get back into thewoods. i miss it.

austin hatley: a nice old B-model kenworth with 260” wheel-base and 46,000lb rear ends withdual lockers!

Dan williams: Some nice shortlog gear . . . old or new, just as longas it’s nice!

Jesse Jernigan: a safe trip formy son and my expecting wife tooregon to spend christmas with myside of the family.

bob holman: i’ve met a lot ofgreat people here and My christmaswish is for all of them to be blessedwith a easy winter, and lots ofstraight timber and good loads tohaul in the new year, plus a ratethat will help them get a leg up onall life has to offer.

kenny keeler: for this economyto improve and a better year for ev-eryone!! and eight more 20" fivehand hole alcoa's for the mistress!!

larell herbert: i want an astar350Bii helicopter.

lupe hobgood: i'm asking San-ta for a welding jacket!

John Parks: to be able to keepon supporting my family and enjoywhat i do everyday.

David Noble: i just want every-one be to safe and have a greatchristmas with thier families!

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We know all of you log haulers have beenespecially good this year. Since you’re all

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MikE aMMOns, of sedro-Woolley, Washington sent in this phototaken near Lake Cavanuagh, east of Mount Vernon. it was takenin february of 2001. “The truck was hauling for nielsen bros. iwas the last truck in the string that day,” ammons writes. “by thetime i left the landing, it was pretty well iced up. i knew i couldn'tget the truck slowed down before the next switch back so ijumped out and this is where the truck ended up.”

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fORREsT WaLdROn TOOk adVanTagE of one of the few snowdays he’s seen this season to snap this photo of his international loghauler on the site of this past summer’s barry Point fire near Lake-view, Oregon.

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by Darin burt

had you asked ryan tatham afew years back if he saw himself

ever driving a logging truck, the an-swer would have been no way.

“i always swore up and down thati’d never (drive a truck) because ev-erybody always said that once youget in it you’ll never get out,” hesays. “i thought it might be a cool jobto be in the woods everyday, but ijust felt that i needed to go and dosomething else where i’d make bigmoney.”

yet here he is pulling a hayrackand lowboy for Jerry Debriae log-ging company from cathlamet,Washington. and you know . . . he’spretty happy doing what he’s doing.

ryan is a guy that’s done a num-ber of different jobs over the years,but they’ve all had a connection toheavy equipment and trucking.right out of high school, he went towork for cowlitz clean Sweep inlongview, operating vacuum andsweeper trucks. he followed thatwith summer and winter work forthe state highway department keep-ing roads clear of snow, blacktoppingand various road cleanup jobs. look-ing for steadier work, he found a jobpulling a logging truck outfitted witha turkey rack for Dave Moore, a thin-ning and cut-to -length logger work-ing with Weyerhaeuser.

log hauling wasn’t particularly ajob tatham was aiming for, butrather something he just stumbledacross that was a good fit for hisbackground and abilities.

“i’d grown up riding in trucks withmy grandfather and my uncles; mywhole family has been involved withthe timber industry. My dad workedat Packwood lumber and my uncle is

a lowboy driver with Mccallum rockDrilling,” tatham says.

tatham drove for Moore until hewent out of business a few years lat-er. his next driving job was pulling along logger for Don fudge contractcutting. fudge eventually sold histrucks to tight line industries – thetrucks and the drivers went as apackage. the situation didn’t workout for tatham, so he found work asan excavator and acting as foremanon a fibre optics project. it was aunion job, and tatham was makingthat big money he’d been seeking. itwas a great job for a single guy, butafter about six years, the work fadedaway. he turned his excavator oper-ating skills to a few pipeline jobs.again, when the work slowed,tatham went back to the woods,driving a long logger, mule train andlowboy and operating processor forhis old boss Don fudge. once again,when that job fell off after a fewyears, tatham left the wood to workfor a demolition outfit knockingdown buildings with an excavator.he liked the work, but when thecompany asked him to relocate tocolorado, it wasn’t hard for him tosay no thanks so that he could stayhome and be closer to his family.

at that same time, tatham had anoffer to buy his own logging truck.he called up Debriae and asked if hehad a truck that he could drive in theinterim. Debriae asked if he wantedto drive the company lowboy as thedriver was about to retire, buttatham was upfront that he wasn’tsure how long he’d be around. Whilehe hauled logs, Debriae kept at himabout the lowboy job, and eventually

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RYAN TATHAM • CASTLE ROCK, WASHINGTON

TaTHaM CREdiTs his grandfatherWilmer Lyon, who he rode with as akid, with instilling in him a solid workethic. “i learned a lot from him aboutthe patience required to drive a truckdown the road.”

JEsHua TaTHaM and his proudpoppa Ryan. “He’s crazy aboutthe trucks, Ryan says. “i’d hopethat he might go into another jobsomeday, but i’ve got a feelinghe’s going to end up being a logtrucker just like me.”

he said okay. Part of it was loyalty,and having a “do whatever it takes”mentality, and part of it was justthat the lure of being an owner-oper-ator was starting to wain.

“i’d crunched the numbers and icould come up with a figure thatmade sense to have my own truck. itdidn’t seem like i was going to makeany more money than i would byworking for somebody else. i’d stilllove to have my own truck, but therewould have to be a drastic change inthe economy. for a guy just to go andbuy and start out, just doesn’t workout anymore,” tatham says.

“Jerry said he’d pay me an hourlywage to operator the lowboy . . .andhere i am.”

for a guy who thrives on varietyand challenges, switching betweenhayrack and hauling equipment hasproved to be the perfect combination.

“i could never go to work in a millbecause i couldn’t go to work in thesame place every day. even with justhauling logs, you’re going to thesame place every day. With lowboy-ing and us having six or seven sidesgoing, i’m always on the move andit’s always something different,”tatham says.

“you never get comfortable withlowboying because you can haul thesame machine 500 times and there’ssomething different about it everytime,” tatham adds. “the challengeskeep my mind going. once you get in

a hurry with lowboying, somethingbad is going to happen . . . you haveto stay focused.”

hayracking, as well says tatham,is a little bit more of a challenge thanyour conventional long logger. “thehayrack doesn’t bend in the middlelike with a long logger. Because youput on two short loads, and it’sstacked to the height limit to get upto weight, they can be little tippy,”he points out. “there’s a lot more of achallenge to backing up, especiallyaround corners, with a hayrack. it’snot like you can just back under theshovel and he can pick up your trail-er and set it behind you. you’re back-ing 65 feet of truck and traileraround corners and down hills. it’salso a challenge because there’s noweight on your drivers – on a hill,you either get a run or you’re crawl-ing. there are just some landingsyou can’t get to with a hayrack.”

“i hear a lot of guys saying, “Whatelse could i do?” i’ve worked for a lotof different outfits, but i’ve gainedexperience in every job that i’ve hadand i’ve always pushed myself to thechallenges,” tatham says.

“you never know everything. ilearn something new every day. themore skill you have, the more you’regoing to work and the more valuableyou’re going to be to your company.”

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TaTHaM dOEs dOubLE -duTypulling both lowbed and hayrack forJerry debriae Logging. “i like thechallenge and variety,” he says.

Washington State chainlaw in effect

on Nov. 1, washington statelaw requires commercial vehiclesand combinations of vehicles heav-ier than 10,000 pounds gVWr tocarry sufficient tire chains.

State Patrol troopers will strictlyenforce the nov. 1 deadline. theWSP will have a special chain-em-phasis patrol in early november toensure drivers are carrying the ap-propriate number of chains, includ-ing spares.

failing to carry chains will costdrivers $124. When highway advi-sories call for chains, drivers whodon't chain up will face a $500penalty.

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approved chains need at leasttwo side chains, to which are at-tached sufficient cross chains ofhardened metal so that at least onecross chain is in contact with theroad surface at all times. Plasticchains are not allowed.

the Washington State Patrolmay approve other devices as chainsif the devices are equivalent to regu-lar chains in performance (cablechains allowable).

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automatic vehicle location, lanedeparture notification, onboardevent recording, remote vehicleshutdown, speed monitoring, andvehicle management are some keyPeoplenet applications availablewith its onboard computer. theseand other Peoplenet technologytools and services can be utilized byfleets to promote efficient and cost-effective transportation.

the kenworth option includes anadaptor for J1939 to communicate toJ1708 for use by the system. thepre-wire is compatible with all ver-sions of the display units. the newoption also includes the harness, an-tenna and roof bracket. the connec-tor locations are located on the left-hand sleeper tool box on kenworthaeroDyne(r) sleepers and behindthe right-hand side of the driverseat on day cabs, extended day cabsand modular sleepers.

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the average displacement forclass 8 truck engines in the u.S. isgoing to shrink anywhere from 2%to 3% by 2018 as oeMs and fleetsseek ways to improve fuel economy

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“What we’re finding is that crite-ria such as total cost of operation[tco] are becoming more importantto fleets in the face of rising fuelprices,” kar told fleet owner Maga-zine. “the upfront purchase priceand total lifecycle costs of smallerengines are lower, while fuel econo-my is better.”

the key, however, is that powerisn’t necessarily lost in the transi-tion to smaller engines anymore, heexplained, meaning fleets don’t nec-essarily have to sacrifice perfor-mance to gain a better tco posi-tion. and it’s the ability to retainpower density that’s getting morefleets to consider downsizing theirtruck engines, kar said.

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TNEWS ANDNEWS ANDINFORMATIONINFORMATION

Based on its research, frost &Sullivan projects that average class8 truck engine displacement will fallto between 13.4 and 13.7 liters by2018, down from an average rangeof 13.7 to 14.1 liters back in 2011.conversely, average horsepower willclimb to between 425 and 540 by2018, compared to a range of 400 to520 back in 2011. torque will alsojump as well, increasing to between1,300 and 1,750 ft.-lbs. on averagecompared to between 1,250 and1,650 ft.-lbs. averaged in 2011.

a variety of technologies such asimproved fuel injection systems andturbocharger designs for startersare helping engines shrink in sizewhile pumping out more power,with more such improvements onthe way, according to kar, in theform of waste heat recovery systemsamong others.

the influence of natural gas andhybridization will also be factors inthis engine displacement shift aswell, as oeMs seeks ways to complywith stringent greenhouse gas rulesset to go into effect between 2014and 2018, while fleets continue ef-forts to reduce impact of high dieselprices on their bottom lines.

as a result of all those many fac-tors, by 2018, frost & Sullivan pre-dicts the makeup of the class 8 en-gine market be very different com-pared to last year.

in 2011, the firm said 14 to 16liter engines comprised 56% of theclass 8 market, with 12 to 14 literengines making up 35% and 11 to 12liter models at 3% market share.

By 2018, however, frost & Sulli-van expects 14 to 16 liter marketshare to shrink down to 42%, while12 to 14 liter models jump to 40%market share, followed by a steeprise market share for 12 to 14 literengines to 15%.

the trend towards engine down-sizing will also result in a shift awayfrom third party engine makers tomodels provided by vertically inte-grated oeMs, frost & Sullivan pro-jects.

the real game here for truckoeMs is the trend toward globalplatforms and outside the u.S.,smaller engine displacement sizesdominate, kar said. “those smallerengines offer better fuel economyand payload for fleets, but also bet-ter margins for the oeMs. that hasto be considered in this shift aswell.”

yet he stressed, however, that thelong haul class 8 segment will con-tinue to remain dominated by 14 to16 liter engines as those models of-fer the best power rating and opti-mized performance metrics. "also,sales of those larger-dispalcementengines will be aided by a strongused truck market, where 15 literengines in particular are attractinghigher valuations," kar noted.

that being said, though, he point-

ed out that length of hauls will con-tinue to shrink in future; and thatwill aid in the proliferation of down-sized engines in class 8 segment.

Link discovered betweenobesity and crash risk

a study has confirmed whatmany in trucking already believed -that there's a direct connection be-tween a truck driver's crash riskand his or her body mass index.obese truckers, during their firsttwo years on the road, are 43% to55% more likely to be involved in acrash when compared against thosetruckers with a normal BMi.

Stephen Burks of the universityof Minnesota-Morris, a former truckdriver and behavioral economist,has been working with Schneidernational for more than a decade tostudy truck driver health and safe-ty.

according to an article by Sciencenow, it was two years ago thatBurks and his team decided to studydrivers' BMi numbers and see howthat related to crash rates.

they asked 744 rookie driverswith Schneider national for theirheight and weight, and from that in-formation calculated the eachdriver's individual BMi. those witha BMi higher than 25 are consid-

ered overweight, while those with aBMi greater than 30 were consid-ered obese.

the study followed the drivers fortwo years.

“that's when the data stood upand shouted at us," Jon anderson, abiostatistician at the university ofMinnesota-Morris told Science now."We found really clear evidence thatthe highest-BMi drivers are at high-er risk of having an accident.”

During their first two years onthe road, drivers with a BMi higherthan 35 ("severely obese") were 43%to 55% more likely to crash thanwere drivers with a normal BMi,the team reports in the novemberissue of accident analysis &Prevent ion (http://www.sciencedi-rect.com/science/article/pii/S000145751200084x).

Drivers who are overweight orobese, but not severely, did not ap-pear to be at higher risk. the studydoes not indicate why. "the relation-ship held even when the researcherscorrected for number of miles on theroad, geographic location, age, andother crash risk factors," stated thearticle by Science now.

Some ideas behind the increasedrisk may include sleep apnea, limit-ed agility, or fatigue associated withobesity, according to the article.

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Safety Conference

the 13th annual aol loggingSafety conference drew a cou-

ple hundred loggers from all overthe state and was set again thisyear at the Bend convention cen-ter. the programs were excellentand presentations on time through-out.

the ultimate theme in any safe-ty article, meeting, or conference, isto work safely so you and your crewcan return home every night tofriends and family. through thecourse of the conference there weretwo projector screens for presenta-tions, and between those presenta-tions was the picture of a oregonlogging Safety ranger’s troyStoud’s new two month-old grand-

son, he uses as the screen saver forhis laptop computer that was usedfor the conference for those presen-tations. We found it a particularlyappropriate reminder of what weall are striving for in a safe work-place: returning home safely.

The Holidays

by the time you receive thismonth’s issue we’ll be into

thanksgiving with christmas rightaround the corner. We’re constantlyreminded that we live in challeng-ing and stressful times, eventhough the times we live in arevery bumpy right now, we havebeen through worse historically andstill landed on our feet.

We have much to be thankfulfor: family, children, grandkids,friends, colleagues, and our goodhealth. While this is assumed, takea moment to recognize and confirmthat.

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scheller diesel service ................19

skip’s Truck Repair LLC...............22

st. Johns Truck & Equipment........8

Tim Morgan insurance..................21

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Washington Truck Rebuilders .....18

Washington Truck Wreckers........10

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2006 KW T800, C15 Cat, RTLO 18918B,AG400 with locker.................PARTING OUT

1984 PETE 359, BCIII Cummins,RTO14613, Air Trac............PARTING OUT

2006 KW T800, C-15 ACERT, RTLO18918B, 46K rears with lockers, Neway ................................................PARTING OUT

1988 KW W900 Logger, W/Bentl trailer,Cummins BCIV 400, RTO14613, DT/402’s4.33 ......................WILL BE PARTING OUT

2001 Pete 379, C-15 Cat 6NZ, RTLO18918B, Air Ride ...........PARTING OUT

1996 KW T800, 60 Series Detroit,RTO15715, Air Ride ............PARTING OUT

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2013 Western Star 4900EX Logger ChassisEngine: Cummins ISX Rated 600HP w/1850 lb/ft; Transmission: 18 Speed Front Axle: 14,700 lb; Rear Axles: 46,000 lb w/Double Lockers; Primaxx 46,000 Air Suspension; Lift Axle: 13,300 lb; 262” Wheelbase; 125 Gal Fuel Tank; 23 Gal DEF Tank

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2007 KW W900L, 2007 Gener-al trailer, 565isx, PDI diesel EGR delete,18-sp, 410 double locker 46,000 rears,all new brakes, new Toyo drives, 252Kmiles, truck is very clean, interior is inperfect cond., too many extras to list, no

disappointments..........$109,000

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1x3 Zweber

503-440-0917

2005 900L (Truck only-Log GearNot Included), 565 ISX, 18 Speed, Rock-well 40's with dual lockers, AG460 Sus-pension, 265" wheelbase, double taperstinger, Watson Chalin Lift, AluminumWheels in & out, 600K miles, one owner

$60,000 Available 12/17/12.

FOR SALE

1x3 McNamara

360-942-7035

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