Maine Owner-Operator Pulls Some Long Days on Forwarder
NEW CANADA, Maine – It’s a long day for Braydon Paradis on the logging job he is on right now. He wakes up at his home in northern Maine at 3:30. The job is almost 100 miles south, a two-hour drive. He works 10 hours, operating his new Eco Log 594F forwarder from...
Minnesota Logger Follows Road to Improvement to Cut-to-Length
FINLAND, Minnesota – Greg Tibbetts is always looking for ways to make his logging and trucking business more productive, more efficient, more profitable. “I’m always trying to improve,” said Greg, 57, whose business is based in Finland in northeast Minnesota, just a...
Log Truck Collides with Train When Driver Distracted
Background On a spring morning in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was starting to transport his second load of the day. The weather was not a contributing factor to the accident as conditions were clear and dry. Personal Characteristics The driver had only...