Black Ice: What It Is and How to Handle It
Keep your eyes out for black ice. Picture this. You’re driving your car on a northern highway in British Columbia. It’s just before 8 am on a frosty February morning. While the road appears bare,
Tips and How Tos
Some suggestions and best practices when travelling BC highways to get you to your destination safely.
15 Seconds to Safety: Are Your Tail Lights On?
One of the most common mistakes drivers are making these dark, wintry days is failing to activate their tail lights. If you’re ever trailing one of these phantom cars, either during a cloudy day or
A Winter Reminder: Don’t Pass Snow Plows with Flashing Lights
It’s early in the winter driving season, and we’re all getting used to the white stuff again, but we’ve had a couple incidents lately where travellers have tried to pass snow plows on the right
Who Ya Gonna Call? Your BC Transportation FAQs
Planning parades, towing boats and RVs, licensing limos or developing rural subdivisions? We hear all kinds of questions about all kinds of topics… It’s natural that many of these questions come to our offices across
How to Pack Your Vehicle Emergency Kit in 15 Seconds
We all wish we had ultra-handy skills like MacGyver, right? Right. But let’s face it – we don’t. We cannot fashion a flashlight out of a pop bottle. Nor can we craft winter gloves out
Crashes and Highway Closures: Why the Delay?
When any BC highway is closed due to a crash, some of the questions and comments we get are: “Why is it taking so long to open the road?” “Don’t you just take some pictures
How to Measure Tire Tread Depth in 15 Seconds
We want to show you how to measure your tires’ tread depth. It’s painless, quick and easy – heck, we were even able to fit it all in this 15-second video. Winter tires are important,
Be Prepared BC – Slow Down, Pull Over and Stay Inside.
When it comes to preparing for an emergency, our friends at PreparedBC know the drill. That’s why we jumped at the opportunity to have them share their valuable insight on what to do if you