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Heavy Haul A Big Load Takes Two More Trucks To Get It Thtough The Mountains Of Alaska

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎10-09-2023 12:33 PM

I watch a show called Ice Road Truckers.

A couple episodes back, they introduced heavy hauls using push trucks. There is the truck with the main cargo that weighs over a hundred tons and two trucks with huge concrete weights that are pushing bumper to bumper from behind.  The trucks get in front going down steep hills so the truck with the load doesn't lose control.

These truckers distribute all things necessary travelling on incredibly steep and icy mountainess roads throughout Alaska from Fairbanks up as far as Prudhoe Bay,

Sometimes they are driving on ice over a river or the ocean so, seasons aren’t very long,  A trucker might make only 14-19 loads per season. The conditions are tricky. Blinding snow carried by strong gusts making visibility near zero are not uncommon and it’s most often -30 degrees out.

Pusher Trucks.jpg

Kinda sounded like a quit to me. 😃

A metaphor for what this site is/does.

WE ARE YOUR PUSH TRUCKS

We line up behind you and help push you up the hills

our experience helps us get in front of you and slow you down.

Lead on!

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.