I-80 Wyoming

It has been a few decades ago , that my driver trainer related this tale to his trainees . So a few details have been forgotten , the trainer said he was on a run in Indiana at night , icy conditions , deep freeze conditions, fairly level stretch of highway, looked in mirror, ### end of trailer was trying to pass the tractor. eased down on accelerator , and was able to pull trailer back in line. We the trainees had been inquiring about driving on black ice , which is what brought the tale about driving at night in icy conditions up, after that I always was more than little chicken about driving at night in icy road conditions . Though your point about the warm tires sticking to solidly frozen ice makes sense.

 

Like Mack said, not good conditions but normal for this time of year.

High winds can happen at any time of year along that stretch, so you had better pay attention to weather reports and road signs, especially if you're running light. If the winds get over 50 and you're light or dead heading, time to pull over and wait it out. Temperatures frequently get to zero in the winter and combine that with blowing snow (even on a sunny day) and you have a lot of ice. When enough snow builds up on the sides of the highway, the high winds will blow it across the road, and trucks will compact it down and it starts to accumulate. This is even on sunny beautiful days, just windy and with snow on the ground. I've driven days through there for over 100 miles on nothing but a slick sheet of ice. That's when you have white knuckles, and try to keep long distances between yourself and other vehicles. This is the primary reason that I avoid going out there this time of year, and only go at any time if I have a heavy, well paying load to make it worth the trip

 

This video just popped up on Youtube of the pileup on 3/1/20, It was taken by a group of people sitting either on a frontage road, or on the other side of the freeway. You can see that some of the rigs were traveling way too fast for the conditions, which appears to be near white-out, with ice on the roads. The day cab towing other day cabs in particular appeared to be going at least 50 MPH perhaps faster, and simply couldn't stop. Three people died, two of them were truck drivers.

 

God #### the last 3 truckers were going FAR too fast. Like holy ####. Another truck managed to slow down and barely touch the trailer, yet those super trucker clowns plowed right though the trailer. They definitely killed someone or themselves.

I'll just never understand this. It gives all truckers a bad name.

 

Dont get me wrong you can still get in a bad spot on ice at night if you're not careful. And I have also experienced a trailer getting out of line a time or 2... Its not a pleasant feeling.

 

With the other video you could see the road shining and shimmering which demonstrated it was very very very slick.

The honest reality is all of these crashes were caused by driving "too fast for conditions" and/or following too close.

When It Comes To Driving, Most People Think Their Skills are Above Average

Safety is an attitude and humility is one of its main ingredients.

 

It’ll still have 50mph winds lol.

 

You are not wrong. Low-profile car. Lmfao