Wyoming Slip and Slide - Lessons

@JC1971 had the correct answer. The pickup truck has a company DOT number displayed. That "RV" is either living quarters, office space, or tech support for an oil rig or fracking operation. A typical oil rig or frack site will have a dozen or more "RV's" of all sizes. Some might be command centers filled with more than a million dollars of computers and equipment. They all have to get there. Weather be ######. The fun begins when you get off the big nice freeway and start the twenty miles of dirt road with no snow plows.

 

Absolutely right.

However, in this scenario the best play is to stay in the right lane, MAYBE sneak over the fog line to use the "Cheater Chains" on the right (the Rumble Strip adds traction). Notice when the dashcam driver loses traction in the final, uphill segment he tried to back into the Cheater Chains to the left of the fog line?

All in all, I think it's best to stay in the right lane in a scenario like this. The more traveled lane will be cleaner. Notice how often there's considerable patches of consolidated snow and ice in the hammer lane? Sometimes you are penalized getting into that hammer lane to pass a much slower truck. You have to drive "what the road gives you". That hammer lane can be really squirrelly at times.

In this video the camera driver started to pass and then on the uphill got slowed by the truck in front of him. It sounds like he might have missed a gear on the downshift, then come to a stop.

The thing that I am wondering is that it also sounds like a low air warning came on when he came to a stop in the hammer lane. If that's true, then he isn't going anywhere soon.