D/C on the big boats

[YZFNick]

Are there ever fuel trucks on the Mainland-Vancouver Island routes? All the little runs that need it have dangerous cargo runs, but I've never heard anything about the large ships. Or is all the fuel for Vancouver Island barged over?

[Koastal Karl]

I know on the Powell River route they have AG (Air Gas) sailings. Dosent effect passengers but effects other dangerous goods sailings. That is the only mainland route I know of. They dont have DC on the southern mainland routes.

[Low Light Mike]

karl said:

I know on the Powell River route they have AG (Air Gas) sailings. Dosent effect passengers but effects other dangerous goods sailings. .

So does that mean that the Powell River route will accept both:
- Acceptable Cargo
- Dangerous Cargo

Thereby making it an AC/DC route?

If so, I would be thunderstruck. For those of you who are about to rock, I say "let there be rock", because the southwest winds on Route-17 will shake you all night long, on a the 20:45 sailing. Perhaps it would be dangerous cargo only, if there was a transport of some TNT, which is dynamite. Perhaps some increased ridership of Route-17 would allow it to get back in black.....financially speaking. But until that happens, the losses will continue and management will be forced to keep a stiff upper lip. You can't just change losses into profit, with the flick of a switch.

Hey, did you know that from Little River on Route-17, you can drive Highway-19 up to Port Hardy.....which Coastal-Insanity thinks is a highway to hell?

Anyhoo, getting back to the problems of Route-17, and it's inability to fully leverage it's AC/DC status: The current management seem to want to reduce service in order to cut costs.....sort of like dirty deeds that are done dirt-cheap, don't you think? That type of scenario makes me really miss a leader like Bon Scott.

[YZFNick]

ok, that's enough outta you.

[Neil]

I think that most of the cross-strait 'dirty deeds' are transported on Seaspan, but not 'dirt cheap'.

And, 'hells bells', I think Flugel Horn has a bad influence on us all.

[Low Light Mike]

I'm just happy to be understood, if only by a few.....

(no, that's not a song)

[Barnacle]

I feel like such an amateur after hvaing to crib my cultural response off a t-shirt... ;D