Faure, Marin wrote:
> Years ago I read an article in the New Yorker about the truckers that hauled
>
> oil field equipment from manufacturers in Texas to the North Slope in
> Alaska.
> This operation went on year round and probably, to a degree, still does
> today.
> In the winter, the trucks were never shut off from the day they left their
> Texas
> starting points to the day they returned. In northern BC, the Yukon, and
> Alaska,
> where it gets a wee bit cold, the trucks were left idling outside the motels
> where
> the drivers slept. Every hour, someone had to get up and go outside to
> run the trucks back and forth in the parking lot to keep the lube oil in the
> gearboxes
> and differentials from becoming congealed by the cold.
Better than draining the oil and taking it to bed with you :-)
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