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nwcountry · **^ Top** #21 09.17.2009

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Originally Posted by ssbowles

2 of the best pieces of advise you can get on winter driving...

I'll hold onto them

Thank you much, Denise

nwcountry · **^ Top** #22 09.17.2009

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Originally Posted by Spacer

Yeah, I guess I kinda jumped the gun on the chains issue. Only time I've ever used them is when they were *required* on various passes.
I would certainly agree with the "If in doubt, it's probably a good time to go ahead and get caught up on laundry or that novel that's been stuck behind the mattress" philosophy. A yellow streak can make for a longer trucking career, sure.

Sounds good to me

Thanks again Spacer

Denise

nwcountry · **^ Top** #23 09.17.2009

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Originally Posted by Working Class Patriot

I have been an O/O since I started my biz...
Never worked for a company dispatcher.....
I went from owning dumps to OTR, so I don't deal with them.

I have talked to a few drivers at rest stops or truck stops and have heard some horror stories about dispatchers threatening drivers if they don't "hammer down"......

You can always get another job...but you only have one life....

I've never had my own business so if I ever decide that being an O/O is what I want, man, will I ever have a lot to learn. At my age I just feel lucky to get to drive someone elses rig and have them figure all the details. But I can see where being an O/O would give you a lot more freedom. Time will tell I guess

Denise in Sams Valley OR

PS I need to make a "signature". I'm getting typers cramp, lol

Stump · **^ Top** #24 09.18.2009

Drive untill YOU feel its unsafe, Its your call, not dispatch. If you feel its unsafe, you already went to far.

jtrnr1951 · **^ Top** #25 09.18.2009

Or move down here and drive regional. I only use chains when I get stuck in the sand..............HA....

nwcountry · **^ Top** #26 09.18.2009

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Originally Posted by Stump

Drive untill YOU feel its unsafe, Its your call, not dispatch. If you feel its unsafe, you already went to far.

I will do that for sure. That is the main message I am getting from all of you so I figure it's the "right" message. Besides, I'm old enough to know that a job isn't worth dying for or worse, killing someone else

nwcountry · **^ Top** #27 09.18.2009

I am so stuck on my home-State(not the politics, but the beauty of the country up here). I would rather put up with some heavy weather than to move my home-base. Course you have hurricanes so, well, you have your "battles" as well

I did live in Alabama and North Carolina for a time and wow, I so loved NW Alabama on the Tennessee? I lived in a tiny area called Killin. Learned a lot in the South. Saw a tornado up-close-and-personal, within 1-mile of my living-room window. What a site!

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Originally Posted by jtrnr1951

Or move down here and drive regional. I only use chains when I get stuck in the sand..............HA....

Rollover the Original · **^ Top** #28 09.18.2009

30+ years of driving and I only threw iron once! took to long to throw and only drove like 7 miles before I HAD to take them off! Never again! They were to hard to put on, had soaked all summer in oil and were way to dirty to have to handle! If it takes chains then it's to dangerous to go! There's NOTHING behind the drivers seat worth dying for!

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #29 09.18.2009

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Originally Posted by Rollover the Original

30+ years of driving and I only threw iron once! took to long to throw and only drove like 7 miles before I HAD to take them off! Never again! They were to hard to put on, had soaked all summer in oil and were way to dirty to have to handle! If it takes chains then it's to dangerous to go! There's NOTHING behind the drivers seat worth dying for!

AK20 · **^ Top** #30 09.19.2009

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Originally Posted by Rollover the Original

30+ years of driving and I only threw iron once! took to long to throw and only drove like 7 miles before I HAD to take them off! If it takes chains then it's to dangerous to go! There's NOTHING behind the drivers seat worth dying for!

You guys crack me up when you start talking about chaining up...I threw iron TODAY, yes that's right September 18th and already getting after it! and I'm talking about triple railers too, not those little singles

I understand the mentality down in the lower 48 though, usually conditions will improve in a matter of hours and it will be safer to continue....understand up here if we waited for that nothing would move from October to April

On another note, I would rather throw a set on and not have needed them than to burn out on a hill and have to chain there...definetly safer doing it in a flat pullout than on a hill, presuming you don't slide down backwards first.

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