Heavy duty trucks come under scrutiny

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications conducted exercises on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway on Wednesday, where all heavy duty trucks were stopped and weighed to establish if they were in compliance with Chapter 51:02 of the Laws of Guyana.
It has been publicly announced that owners and operators of heavy vehicles are advised that breaching the limits will lead to cargo and vehicles being detained unnecessarily, in addition to legal action and fines for operating in contravention of Chapter 51:02 of the Laws of Guyana.
According to a senior technician on the site, there is a campaign to sensitise heavy duty truck drivers to the rules and regulations of the Laws of Guyana.
He said trucks that are overloaded are a danger to road users and the operator of the truck also, while the defaulters would be reported to their insurance companies and would be regarded as high risk patients.
He explained that the campaign is to enforce weight stipulations; to keep the roads from being destroyed and to ensure the safety of truck operators and road users.
Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn previously stated, that the Linden to Georgetown carriageway is suffering from signs of depression and as a result persons should discontinue from traversing the roadway with heavy duty vehicles.
According to sources within the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics, the regulations regarding the dimensions of vehicles allowed to use the public roads are in the process of being reviewed.
In addition, the Ministry has installed fixed vehicle platform scales at the Demerara Harbour Bridge, Berbice River Bridge, Wismar-Linden Bridge and the Takutu Bridge. Moreover, there are portable scales for campaigns along other road locations.

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You will probably never get the chance to race a Bugatti Veyron against a Eurofighter Typhoon, play "car darts" or fire an anti-tank gun at a flying Ford Scorpio - because unless your name is Clarkson, May or Hammond, you don't have the best damn job in the world. But if you fancy a taste of the incredible life the Top Gear crew enjoy, you might be interested to hear that Arctic Trucks, the Iceland-based company that took the lads to the North Pole in 2007's Polar Challenge, is now offering a range of two-day, five-day and longer expeditions across the same territory - in the same beefed-up Toyota 4WDs that raced against Hammond's dog sled team. Bring your own smug British humor.

Iceland offers a pretty comprehensive range of off-roading experiences - depending on which season you visit in, you can push a vehicle against mountains, fields, glaciers, snow, permafrost, rivers, lava fields and iced-over lakes. This smorgasbord of geography is an island in the north Atlantic, nestled between Greenland and the British Isles.

Of course, unless you live there you're probably not equipped with the ideal gear to go explore one of the world's most surreal and magnificent outdoor areas - and that's where Arctic Trucks comes in.

Based in Iceland's capital, Reykjavík, Arctic Trucks offers 4WD trips and tours, from daytrips to expeditions of several weeks' duration - complete with access to a fleet of heavily-modified trucks designed to survive and thrive in some very specialized driving conditions.

The trucks

The Arctic Trucks fleet is run almost constantly in extreme off-road conditions, including mud and river crossings during the summer and deep snow and ice in the wintertime - so clearly, they need to be a little tougher than the average urban tractor. The company also modifies trucks for customers as well.

Starting with a standard Toyota Hilux or Land Cruiser, the Arctic Trucks lads fit a bunch of survival goodies - air compressors, GPS satnav, VHF radios, tire repair gear, shovels, high lift jacks and kinetic rope. Some cars are fitted with winches, snow anchors and snatch-blocks - essential for dragging free stuck vehicles - and every expedition brings at least one of these cars along.

Then it's on to the main event - switching the standard tires (approximately 29" in diameter and designed for road and very light off-road use) for pure off-roading tires, from a minimum of 32" out to an enormous 44" for glacial and heavy snow work.

In order to fit these gargantuan hoops, the fender flares need to be modified or replaced with wider units, the suspension and body height have to be modified, too. For tires 38" and larger, bigger rims are fitted, the gearbox is modified for lower ratios and a lot of extra work is done on the undercarriage.

The key benefit of running huge tires like these, with an almost comically small rim at the center, is that you can let most of the air out of the tires and run them at between 2-5psi, virtually flat. But at these pressures, the contact patches spread right out to provide a broad distribution of the vehicle's weight - and this means you can drive these heavy vehicles successfully over the top of soft snow without bogging down.

The Arctic Trucks guys soon discovered that their extreme off-road mods were becoming a bit of a fashion around town, with people running huge tires despite rarely taking their trucks out to run them in the wilderness - so they now make sure that style, image and on-road drivability are part of every customer modification. And you have to admit, they look pretty neat.

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All tours and longer expeditions are seasonal and need to be planned ahead - most either require that you're an experienced driver in these kinds of vehicles, or else that you take a guide along with you. Some of the shorter tours start out with a bit of an introduction/practice session to get you familiar with some of the skills you'll need to manage these modified beasts.

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