In my 35+ years of driving semi in Manitoba, I totalled off 3 trucks, all on moose.I ran over several deer in those years and the usual amount of birds. But the funnyist (to me at the time was) I was travelling about 10 miles east of Neepawa on Hwy #16 at night time and back before they rebuilt the bridges, at that time there was about 3 bridges within 20 miles or so. Each bridge was down in a bit of a dip and as I was approaching the first bridge I could see about 10 sets of eye's ahead. I was pulling a set of super B's loaded with 8' pulp logs and was going about 100 klm's and I see a whole wack of racoon's on the center of the bridge, mostly in my lane. Well, I went thru them coon's and all I heard from under the cab was thump, thump, thump. When I returned about 10 or 11 the next morning, there were dead coon's all over the bridge, 5 or 6 for sure.
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