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title: 'Ask from Don: When did you drive trucks in the snow?'
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- Truck driving began at age 23 in Northwest Territories
- Oil-field access required waiting for snow to freeze roads
- Delivered dynamite to seismic survey teams
- Slept and ate at crew camps when unable to return to base
- Encountered and assisted a lost tool salesman
summary: At about age 23 the speaker drove trucks in deep snow for oil-field work
  in Canada's Northwest Territories, delivering dynamite to seismic survey crews when
  roads were impassable. He stayed overnight in the crews' camps when needed and recalls
  their reliable meals. One clear memory is rescuing a lost tool salesman who had
  circled cut lines for a day.
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# Question from Don

When did you drive trucks in the snow?

## Your answer

driving trucks in the snow was probably when I was about 23 years old I was working in Canada and the only jobs you could get was to go up north in the oil fields and and the snow because in the summary you couldn't drive on the roads it was just impossible so you had to wait and froze on over to go in and work on their own eggs and stuff like that and that's what I did in the Northwest Territories yeah explosives related things with all a lot of dynamite to the survey teams that were looking for oil they put the dynamite down in a well if if I couldn't get back my home base I'd sleep in the camp that the seismic crew with that they they always had a bed for me in a meal top notch they if there's one thing they did is they fit them fed them people and worked up in the cold and they said I'm really well yep yep the only thing I can really remember I ran in it was it was in the middle of the afternoon I ran into a tool salesman and he was lost he had been going down one cut line after another going in circles and that he had been lost for a day was ever happy to see me