Beware Of Black Ice

Black ice ?? Wipers going in winter ought to be the first hint to pay attention to road surfaces..

 

i was flying through Wyoming pulling a set of empty doubles 2 weeks ago cruise set at 78ish. I looked down at my phone I felt my feet stop vibrating I was like what?? I look up my tractor is sliding sideways. So I bring it right. Then I was drifting to the right ditch lol. It was like 32 degrees outside clear skies and clean roads. Little bit of blowing snow. I guess that one spot froze up. Couldn’t even see it. it was sketchy but I usually don’t get scared in situation like that anymore. For most part they’re pretty controllable. I forsure though at first one of my pups was getting blown over lol. So I slowed down to 75 without cruise for a while.
good times

 

Couldnt stop. Well... tsk. Would be a herd of semis needing to stop. Be a mess.

I have found myself on black ice before usually when the forward drives refuse the power application and spin. The way I drive a engine on ice or suspected ice is somewhat not the way that might be approved. (I tend to underdrive the RPM's so that there is not too much force on the turning of the tire.) If its bad enough I'll find a spot in no time.

As the old saying goes, you know when to hold em or when to fold em. And if the ice is too slippery to run on there is no point. Park it and wait until the sun.

We had a incident in the winter of 2000-2001 in OKC on 40 east where it was about 90 degrees in the middle of december one morning and broke what we considered a proper summer storm with all that pertains to it and much rain.

By the time we got through the middle of OKC temps fell from 90 to about 24ish. All of it became ice. Pure undrivable slippry fall down ice. That old rig got to dancing and I needed the entire interstate to keep it straight. It as crazy. We holed up in a hilltop motel lot west of there for until sunrise. Once everything started dripping and the CB was calming down on drivers who have run off the interstate and good and stuck calling for those with cells to call into dispatch to get a tow arrange. (It would have been us asking for one ourselves... but not just yet)

That trailer was not happy on that ice that morning and you would think with her at 30 degrees to the tractor trying to jackknife being dragged on that ice with maybe 4 pounds of trolley on her hoping she will get something of traction to get back in line. It was crazy. If you did anything with the tractor other than straight off you go into the ditch.

I don;t think FFE would be too pleased to see that we dragged a trailer a few miles like that until it finally fell into line loaded.

The only saving grace was that part of 40 was essentially flat. If it was any kind of hill, mountain or whatever off into the ditch we go. On that kind of ice.

I think God amuses himself when he made the world and invented winter to go along with the summer. To see us on ice now and then.

 

1st of all, ice is ice, get such a kick out of "black ice", like that's somehow worse. Very disturbing video. 1st, this yutz is going way too fast for conditions, I'd be sweating bullets on a stretch like this, loaded or empty, and 2nd, that dump truck, clearly empty and also going too fast, that was probably hauling salt to a county shack, took a pretty bad spill, think maybe the driver was ok? Just drives on, what a shmuck.

 

I thought it was more interesting the truck driver maintained speed across the same area with out issue. While the dump truck (possibly with sand or salt) spun out.

 

I really hope you are pulling our leg,And this is NOT what happened.

If So, Shame on you, Doing 78 with an empty set at 32 degrees with blowing crystal snow over road surface......

You'll be in #5 "big one" If you keep it up...

And Let us all know what color your Truck is and who you drive for so we can steer clear of you.

 

Cruise on 78 with blowing snow and on the phone while driving

 

That was not black ice at all. That was people driving way to fast for the current conditions. They claim they was driving 65-70 because the roads were just wet . okay that is way to fast for roads that are just wet in the first place. But it is obvious the temperature was cold enough to turn the wet roads into ice . why do people feel the ned to drive balls to the wall all the time . i dont get it.

 

I think some people forget that the speed limit is set for perfect road conditions. If it is raining , foggy, snowing, ice, snow etc then ur speed should be lower than the speed limit.