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    • Avalanche and Weather Program
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    • Adopt a Highway
    • Transit
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Shift into Winter

An initiative to keep you safe and moving during the winter season, and the work we do to make sure you are.

Driving Pet Peeves

Earn Good Winter Driving Karma, Know Others’ Pet Peeves

September 27, 2021December 26, 2012 6 Comments

Wikipedia defines “pet peeve” as: a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to them, to a greater degree than others may find it. Wouldn’t it be great if we all understood what

Categories Shift into Winter

An Emergency Kit Show and Tell to Help Shift Into Winter

November 1, 2023December 18, 2012 12 Comments

We’re popping our trunk to share a few of the items we like to carry around when the temperature drops. These are essential to making sure you and your car are equipped in case of an emergency, to stay safe.

Categories Emergency Events, Shift into Winter
Shift into Winter for commercial vehicles

Shift into Winter: How to Put Tire Chains on Commercial Vehicles

December 14, 2020December 11, 2012 8 Comments

Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement (CVSE) shows a detailed demonstration of how to install winter tire chains on a commercial vehicle — on video and in print.

Categories Shift into Winter, Trucking

Highway Thru Hell: The TranBC Interviews

September 27, 2021December 5, 2012 8 Comments

If there’s one television program out there that illustrates the need for drivers to “shift into winter,” it’s Discovery Channel’s Highway Thru Hell. The show’s action and suspense make it difficult to ignore the challenges

Categories Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Ride Don’t Slide: What Winter Tires Mean to You

September 28, 2021December 4, 2012 Leave a comment

Have you ever debated about installing winter tires? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Learn the difference between “hockey puck” tires, and tires made for winter conditions that remains flexible at low temperatures,.

Categories Shift into Winter

Shift into Winter – A Cautionary Tale

February 1, 2023November 16, 2012 1 Comment

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” -Pablo Picasso I’m pretty sure Picasso didn’t have me in mind when he came up with that line, but the phrase

Categories Shift into Winter

5 Things to Learn from Watching Highway Thru Hell

September 27, 2021November 1, 2012 14 Comments

Whether you’re an avid connoisseur of reality television, or simply an average BC driver intrigued by life on the road, you’re likely familiar with Discovery Channel’s series: Highway Thru Hell (cue flaming asphalt). The frosty

Categories Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos, Trucking
Salute Salt Road Maintenance

A Salute to Salt – How Our Maintenance Contractors Make Roads Safer

November 5, 2020March 7, 2012 3 Comments

  Have you ever been behind one of our maintenance contractors in the winter and watched as they sprayed liquid on the road? It’s often mistaken for water, but it’s more than that. It’s actually

Categories Road Maintenance, Shift into Winter
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