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Tips and How Tos

Some suggestions and best practices when travelling BC highways to get you to your destination safely.

Drinking Driving CounterAttack: What Will it Take to Stop Impaired Driving?

May 27, 2022December 20, 2012 2 Comments

1977 was an important year. It was the year Han Solo said, “May the Force be with you.” It was also the year Elvis passed away. Maybe even more importantly, 1977 was the beginning of

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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
driving at night

Be a Bright Light when Night Driving

October 16, 2023November 8, 2012 18 Comments

Not everyone thinks about it, but driving at night is more challenging and hazardous, than by day. Here are some tips and techniques to improve your safety.

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

Slow Down & Move Over for ALL Roadside Workers

October 6, 2020November 6, 2012 8 Comments

As of Jan. 1, 2015, motorists are required to Slow Down and Move Over, for ALL vehicles stopped alongside the road, which have flashing red, blue or yellow lights. The Motor Vehicle Act regulation was

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

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

7 Secrets to Taming Driver Stress

May 2, 2023October 10, 2012 11 Comments

Behind every steering wheel lurks driver stress. It creeps up when motorists are stuck in start-stop traffic, or being tailgated, or having to brake hard to avoid a crash, or seeing motorists who don’t follow

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

Hey, You Got a Problem? 10 Ways to Let Us (and Others) Know

December 11, 2020September 18, 2012 7 Comments

A concern, a problem, a beef, an issue… There are lots of words to express that something is unsatisfactory or unsettling to you. And at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, there are several ways

Categories BC Travellers, Emergency Events, Road Maintenance, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

Driving Tips to Help Enjoy BC Day, Eh?

November 30, 2020August 6, 2012 Leave a comment

Did you know that the Province of BC has been celebrating its wonderful self since 1974? It was felt, (by the Honourable Ernie Hall – then Provincial Secretary under then Premier Dave Bennett), that “British

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