Stopping for weather, especially winter road conditions

Standing out there on the highway isn't too smart unless traffic had slowed down already.

 

Yes Sir..
And no way in hell could I have stopped in time if I hit the brakes...

 

North East is pretty bad in the winter. There’s crazy accidents that don’t make it to mainstream news. I remember back in late 2015, I was in Maine. I just got loaded from that scumbag place, Poland springs. It snowed, it rained and there was Black Ice in the backroads. The person who created Vermont route 9 is from Hell, he ain’t from planet Earth. This is a mountain backroad, 30mph, no guard rails.

VTDOT: “You have chains?”
Me: “no”
VTDOT: “pray to god”

50min in, I got stuck going up hill. I couldn’t climb the #### hill, Black Ice and the Freightliner I was driving at the time decided it wanted to do a ******** regen lol. I was afraid that someone was going to crash into me but 14hrs later I found out that there was two major accidents that caused both directions to shutdown. Tow truck guys charged me $500 just to pull me up and throw salt under my tires. Yeah I lost money that day but phew, what an experience.


Most of the North East and Eastern European countries will shutdown their economy in the winter time. Mongolia, if you want to go to the supermarket in the middle of winter, your taxi is a horse. Im not surprised that we don’t do that here. Sheep have to keep on sheeping.

 

Most companies I worked for are like that, the most rigorous of them all (Schneider) had the habit to shut down Terminal's gates so drivers do not go in/out during bad snow and freezing rain but wait and stay safe.

 

Exactly.
Tulsa, Oklahoma us69 south with a glaze of ice on the bridges. On the right a car crashed with an officer behind it. I move to the left lane and a guy coming off the loop interchange spins across the highway, into the wall on the left. I had to lightly steer to the right and go between the two accidents.

Des monies, Iowa. Morning rush hour on i235 cruising along in the middle lane minding my own business. A car passing me in lane 1 hits a patch of ice and spins in front of me, across three lanes, the ramp lane with stoped traffic in it, through a gap in the cars and into the rail.

 

Something you have to call it a lesson no matter how much driving experience you have...

 

The company I'm leased to won't give you a hard time if you shut down for the weather. They will however flip out if you say you were driving while tired

 

I think common sense wins. You drive within your abilities/skill set/comfort level.

With your job or your life, you may only run out of talent one time. Of course you could also just have an opps, but if it’s that bad why find out?

 

when the truck lea es its parkin space,your the capt of that ship...Your call to stay put or roll..
No matter what dispatch or even company owner tells you to do,do whats best for you 1st then trk n load 2nd..