Chaining Up

Yea snow covered roads at night suck big time lol

 

Here's a good video... and a lot of other video's by "YourBoyE" that you can watch... good information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrFy2qOSFE

 

Said it before, will say it again. Any driver who tells you to wait out a chain law, ask him how much he has in his pocket and how long he is prepared to wait. I've seen the chain law up on I-70 W. of Denver for 5 days straight... will your wallet and your paycheck let you sit that long? The only time I've waited out a chain law was when the road was closed, I can put 2 sets of singles on and be back under power within 15 minutes. Also, if you park in a chain up area in Colorado to wait out the chain law, be prepared to be turned around and sent back either to Denver or to Dotsero. If you spin out trying to turn around, you will be fined $1,000. Now, how deep is your pocket?

 

What he said!

Seriously, the guys who tell you to park if you need to chain up are a joke. They're either scared of the bad roads or too lazy to throw the iron. And they will find every excuse imaginable to avoid admitting to either! You may never need to chain up where you're running, but as suggested, learn how before you need to do it on the side of the road.

Actually, snow pack is easier to see at night, most times the bright light of the day washes out the contrast needed to see the variations in the all white surface.

There is a reason the OP asked the experienced to sound off.

 

Aahhh was wondering when the "almighty supertruckers" were going to chime in! Just like kids on a playground!

For you new guys that don't know about this breed of numbnuts, the ones that tell you to speed up or go faster down a mountain, or the ones that never pullover in a snowstorm etc. They are also the ones that tell you their trucks run 200mph and that they can drive for a month straight without sleeping!

In reality they are the ones you will see in the ditch as you drive by when the weather is bad or after they have cleared the roads and lifted the chain laws.

HAMMER DOWN SUPERTRUCKERS! HELL YA, LEFT LANE ONLY..... WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!




(actually a supertrucker by definition is just a pee-brain redneck that has his crap together just enough to be able to hold a steering wheel!)

 

Says the guy from Florida. Oh well I have to agree w/ him on certain points. Up North if you don't run Iron you won't move for a few months. You can never have too many chains on:ever.

 

You really think its cool to tell new guys to chain up and keep driving? If your wife and kids were driving down the same road would that be ok with you?

These guys have a hard enough time driving in the summer time!

Chaining up is fine if you are experienced and are used to doing it. For the new drivers there's no reason for them to risk to it.

 

How are you going to learn if you don't try? There is a time and place when common sense comes into play.

 

Anywhere, anywhere in there, did we say go no matter what? I don't think so. Some of us, Chompi; spend days driving on roads that would have you looking for momma's teat. And if that makes me a supertrucker, I guess it makes you a .
The one time I ended up in a ditch was because some idiot from down south who had been taught "to use the johnny bar to keep it pulled straight;" swung his trailer across oncoming traffic as he prepared to make a left turn. The snow in the ditch was much softer looking than the back of his trailer.

I said the exact same thing him in the past, for the same reason.

I'd rather have them chained up and slow than barefoot and fast!

It's much easier for some to not try and hide their fear with a false bravado! Which is usually dispensed at the truckstop counter.