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Stranded truckers resume slow trek south on winter roads

By: Nick Martin

Posted: 03/20/2010 4:43 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

A truck stuck earlier this week in the mire of a melting winter road in northern Manitoba.

WINNIPEG - A convoy of about 30 heavy trucks is slowly making its way south from Bloodvein First Nation to Pine Falls along newly refrozen but badly-rutted winter roads.

Everyone who had been stranded on thawing winter roads has been accounted for, RCMP Sgt. Line Karpish said this afternoon.

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Two trucks remain stuck about 35 kilometres north of Bloodvein, but the drivers are doing fine and there is a caterpillar on the way to clear ruts for them, Karpish said.

Karpish said two convoys of trucks — including a group stuck earlier at Thunder lodge — pulled into Bloodvein at 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. today. They were checked out medically, then set out in one convoy going south.

"They’re not moving fast," said Karpish, who could not estimate when the convoy will reach Pine Falls. They’re travelling at seven kilometres per hour at best, she said.

"They’re going to hit solid ground (at Pine Falls) — they’ll scatter," she said.

RCMP have also accounted for 10 residents of Garden Hill and Island Lakes first nations who were stuck when the winter roads melted. They’re all at Bloodvein.

No one had to be medevaced, said Karpish, who was not aware of any medical problems suffered on the winter roads.

"Our policing issue is resolved," said Karpish.

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