Winter Mountain Driving Advice Needed

With the boats , make sure not to run the boat checkpoints in mt if they are open , they will chase u down and give u like a $400 ticket.. i used to see tmc hauling boats like that going westbound and about once a week id see them pulled over just passed the checkpoint around anaconda... Kinda dumb they would get harrassed like that especially since im sure they just get waved thru the checkpoint lol

 

Consider a set of cables. They work well in most conditions. Don’t take up much space, so easy to store compared to chains. Also pretty easy to put on.

 

If you pull same trailer or only trailers with a specific tire size I'd use cables instead of chains. The main thing it to put them on for practice the first time in a convenient and comfortable dry location so you aren't figuring it out for the first time when you really need them.

 

I can verify they will chase you down. Scale was closed on 94 coming from NoDak, and I had seen the signs before, but totally forgot.

Nice lady with the flashy lights caught up to me like 50 miles later. Gave me a clean inspection on the brand new boat and my first level 1.

Lucky for me, no tickets, but I think she liked my good attitude.

 

Because drivers like you are not smart enough to understand. Turning off the engine brake on slippery roads is some of the most basic parts of driving a truck. Where did you learn this was a good idea to use engine brake ? Who is the genius that taught you this ? Or did you learn this yourself ?

 

Did you and @expedite_it have the same have the same highly esteemed trainer?

 

This is extremely amusing coming from someone who absolutely refuses to even acknowledge valid points made against your argument. All you do is repeat the same argument without ever refuting a single point. It's just like talking to you about downhill braking, there is no grasp of the idea that you can use up braking capacity without overheating the brakes. As I pointed out earlier, you're arguing very basic principles that are taught to protect newbies from their lack of experience without realizing there is much more nuance behind those simplified concepts. Simplified for the least common denominator in new drivers. Concepts that everyone except for those LCD's soon realize are dumbed down to protect those idiots from themselves, and that aren't as black and white as initially taught.

The best example outside of trucking I can think of is in math. Students are taught almost as soon as they are introduced to square roots that negative numbers don't have square roots. It's only later, when you're introduced to i=✓-1, that you realize that's one handy piece of knowledge in advanced math.

This has become the guy who can barely jump start his car telling the electrical engineer that everyone knows power flows FROM the positive terminal of the battery while never grasping the implications that result from understanding that power flows TO the positive.

 

That's just an ignorant post, and your whole argument is ridiculous.

You're ridiculing others that have knowledge, on something you have zero knowledge about.

Nobody "taught" me. I had no trainer to tell me what I could and what I couldn't do. Who taught you that using the jake would end in certain disaster? Cause you're both spewing bad information IMO.

 

Look at some of the things expedite_it would post. Supposedly an 8 year driver and recently figuring out the most basic things. What his trainer said was gospel and it was never questioned. Poor drivers become poor trainers who create poor drivers. It’s a never ending circle.

There are people out there with tons more mountain experience than I have, but for 10 years most of my weeks involved multiple trips over Lolo and Lost Trail. I get a kick out of someone who hasn’t done it telling me I did it wrong. Sort of like a safety guy who shows up on a job site. “I don’t know how to do your job but my book says you’re doing it wrong.”

Should I bring up that most of the time I’d stop on top of the pass and pull my chains off because you don’t really need them to get down a hill?