Over the road truck drivers are paid by the miles they run. They have 10 hours and they can use them for getting as many miles as they can. But with Ice road trucking you are not focused on the miles you run, you are focused on the:
- Speed limitations
- What is going on around you
- Cracking sound
- Braking
- The truck behavior…
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Ice Road truckers don’t get a lot of miles running through the frozen lakes in the Northwest Territories of Canada and Alaska. Being paid per load or per week will take the time and mileage pressure of your shoulders.
Here’s an example:
Run to the farthest diamond mine long 255 miles will take 2 and a half days for round ride. And run to the closest mine from Yellowknife will take 2 days for passing only 220 miles. When the trucks are loaded they have speed limitation of 10 or maybe 19 miles per hour and when they are empty in some areas they may go to 25 miles per hour.
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Being paid per load or per week will get you a good ice road truckers salary but remember you need to be maximally focused every second during the ride to safely transport that load to the required location.
