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  • Commercial Vehicles
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  • Engineering
    • BC Projects
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    • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
    • BC Highway History
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    • Wildlife
    • Avalanche and Weather Program
    • Active Transportation
    • Adopt a Highway
    • Transit
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BC Travellers

Information of interest to commuters, tourists and recreational drivers in rural and urban BC.

BC Road Trip Time Machine: See Vancouver as it was in 1966

October 2, 2018November 1, 2017 19 Comments

Hey Vancouver! Get ready for a ride down memory lane because our BC Road Trip Time Machine is heading your way. Our archival photolog footage rolls its way from Horseshoe Bay, through West Vancouver, over

Categories BC Highway History
Be truck aware

Top 3 Ways to Be Truck Aware

December 9, 2020October 24, 2017 38 Comments

If you compare the size and weight of a loaded commercial vehicle to that of a passenger vehicle, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn the occupants of the passenger vehicle are four times more likely

Categories Tips and How Tos, Trucking

15 Seconds to Safety: How to Identify a Winter Tire

November 2, 2022October 17, 2017 25 Comments

We get questions about winter tires all the time. Well, not all the time – mostly in October when winter tire regulations go into effect on most BC highways until the end of March. Drivers

Categories Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Tool Shines a Light on Line Paint Brightness

August 19, 2022September 27, 2017 23 Comments

Able to record 400 measurements per second into an internal computer and function wirelessly, a state of the art retroreflectometer is our newest tool for testing line paint performance.

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance, Trucking

Snapshots in Time: Who is the “Highways Department”?

October 7, 2020September 19, 2017 29 Comments

If you’ve visited us here before, you probably know that sometimes, we like to kick it old school. We throw it back here, on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with pictures, video and stories about how

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

Gone to the Dogs – it’s CVSE to the Rescue!

September 13, 2017 4 Comments

Sometimes, it can be a dog eat dog world out there, and that seemed to be the case for five pups caught in the chaos of this summer’s BC wildfire in the Cariboo area. When

Categories BC Travellers, Trucking

BC on Fire: How We Help Battle the Blaze

August 29, 2023September 5, 2017 Leave a comment

In our province, we’ve seen how wildfires can be extremely impactful. For example in 2017, the wildfires that ravaged the interior of BC were the worst our province has ever seen.More than 1,200,000 hectares of

Categories BC Travellers, Emergency Events

North to Alaska! Celebrating 75 Years of Ingenuity and Travel                

November 17, 2020August 14, 2017 2 Comments

Celebrate two birthdays on the Alaska Highway this year, as the route turns 75 years old and Canada marks its 150th year. There are special celebratory events to recognize the route’s storied past and loads of natural wonders along the way.

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
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