Dirty Dan:
Hope you will have a good weekend!Danne
you too! Rasta Håby this weekend, just enjoyed a large schnitzel, later on will be going to the sauna 
if only every weekend was like this, or the weekend before last, that I spent in the watercenter in Sveg 
Icee he deffo should have known better, although the truck has the newest truck-spec garmin and internet on the iPad, this was just a case of blindly following the gps and not looking over the route that it gives you beforehand.
That sounds great mate! Håby is a great place,always stopped there when i had picked up a unacompanied trailer in Gothenburg on route norway
BTW i was in Sveg last friday around lunch time,i had picked up a cat 980h with bad transmisionbox up in Lossen in the middle of Hede and Funäsdalen along highway 84.
Now home in bed with worst cold ever high fiver…
Enjoy the sauna mate!
Sveg, in the middle of nowhere with somehow a 24h Statoil
Håby is nice, do they still have the night guards? Long time since last.
Yeah funny isnt,24/7 statoil eh but you shuld see were i was unloading 25km from The 84 and passed here stops public road sign and passed driving at your own risk sign. It was a really bad road and it took me 1,5 hour to get back on the 84 but in the end al good and fun
Danne
I don’t know if anyone is actively patrolling in Håby, but they have signs up saying to look out for thieves 
fortunately we don’t carry any valuable cargo and any fuel gone will set off an alarm
isn’t it always a bad road around Sveg the last time I was driving down from Östersund, I was met by a 2-axle fluckinger with chains on the E45, the time before that I was heading towards Østby, saw norwegian trucks coming the other way with chains on even before Särna and after climbing up sideways towards Särna with all axles up, saw a swedish truck with a romanian driver stuck on the hill heading out of Särna so went to fuel up and put the chains on in statoil before even trying.
anyways, it’s been fun but really tiring as well, now at home having some vino tinto and deciding on the name for my second son, who should be arriving in july
Yeah saw it’s been pretty bad lately around Särna, normally it should be winter there and not any problem at all, no problem keeping 90 if you so want but this year. Rain one day, snow the next and -20 to go over to rain again…
Still 2013 December since I last used the chains. Should maybe have put them on 2 weeks ago on Sunday when it started raining arriving on the e6 coming down from Junkerdal. Decided it was enough on Statoil in Rökland when the trailer used different tracks compared to the truck on the flat 90km/h road 
doing just 40, probably would needed 4 chains to continue, drive, steer and trailer and thats just not worth it. Continued instead in the morning, still not perfect but it was drivable and after the first hill it was just tarmac…
Hope I’m not hijacking it to much with pics.
This is how it should look like, Saltfjellet this Monday, just perfect
A new kid and being away that much, you must be working hard while home 
Icee:
Hope I’m not hijacking it to much with pics.
definitely not, I’ve been too lazy to take any and besides, I don’t go too far north anyway to see the real winter. maybe next winter
so spent the afternoon doing some cooking - after 6 miles of walking back and forth to the nearest grocery store.
being an awful cook, it looks better than it tastes!
unloading an 8t digger in Ergli, Latvia this week
yes, Sveg is quite a popular stop for us, as we use the Östby border quite a lot. a very nice and quiet water center but not such a quiet place to sleep thanks to the local youth and their cars with loud exhausts
Icee:
Have you got the pleasure of taking the rv53 after the ferry yet up to Filefjell. The pass after Övre Årdal up to the top is quite something
finally went that way just before juhannus because filefjell was closed for construction, doesn’t seem too summer-y
and here’s the older lad after talking me into letting him drive 
on the road again
taking a break somewhere between gällivare and kiruna, on my way to the beautiful lofoten. a nice -14 degrees
milodon gr8 pics and writing looks just like winter here in canada it be starting proper here anyweek now got some gd pics will try and work out how to get them on here
I love the winters up here [and when i lived in Canada],makes everything look so clean and fresh.We’ve had about 30cms snow in the last 2 Days and -15c so it’s really nice.
PS,i live about 100kms from where those photos were taken.
ye agree on that hutpik where did u live in canada
Hi Steve.It’s partly due to the fact that here is so similar to Canada that i moved here[and that it’s a looong way from Europé]
I lived in St Foy,Ville de Quebec,my wife was Quebecois.We also lived and worked for 1 winter in Tuktoyaktuk in the NWT and later worked out of Montreal.After my wife died i went back to live in Holland [on and off for 30 yrs]but when i was running up here for Pilkington the ‘‘quality of life’’ made me decide to move up here for my ‘‘declining years’’.Not regretted it for a moment.Mike
hutpik ye nice one im in prince edward island run canada /usa but not a fan of winter more a texas/arizona/ fan stay lucky m8
Hi Steve.Always liked PEI and the maritmes in general.Take care over the next few months.
