Alaskan truck

Seen in Juneau, SE Alaska in 1982. At the time, there were no roads that connected

land-locked Juneau, the state capital, with the outside world, eg. the Pan-American

Highway, and the only way in or out was by boat, like the ferry that shuttles between

Seattle and Juneau, or by air. Consequently, Alaskans are more likely to own and to travel

by a float plane than by car. So trucks like this one would have been short-haul affairs on

the limited roads in and around the capital and to Douglas Island, across the Gastineau

Channel. Before the days of strict health and safety rules (largely ignored anyway in the

far north, where more serious rules apply), this would have been an operational truck - a

small hole in the windscreen would not have bothered anyone, even at 30 below.

Seen in Juneau, SE Alaska in 1982. At the time, there were no roads that connected

land-locked Juneau, the state capital, with the outside world, eg. the Pan-American Highway,

and the only way in or out was by boat, like the ferry that shuttles between Seattle and

Juneau, or by air. Consequently, Alaskans are more likely to own and to travel by a float plane

than by car. So trucks like this one would have been short-haul affairs on the limited roads in

and around the capital and to Douglas Island, across the Gastineau Channel. Before the days

of strict health and safety rules (largely ignored anyway in the far north, where more serious

rules apply), this would have been an operational truck - a small hole in the windscreen would

not have bothered anyone, even at 30 below.