Few questions about winter driving

Salt is awful. Leaves your windshield white and streaky, does a toll on your wiper blades too. I started using wax on my windshield. When it would snow bad and I'd be running 60+ MPH my windshield would always get caked with snow and start to freeze, after I put 2 coats of wax on it everything just slides right off. You can tell the difference between snow and salt on the road by the trail of dust either behind you or coming off the car in front of you. Salt leaves dust, snow leaves mist.

 

Mostly just comes with experience. You learn how to read the road . Just keep a lookout for the road to get shiny . When a car passes you , look at their tires and if the road looks wet but no road spray then u know ur driving on ice . Same thing in ur mirrors. Just take it slow and easy. Load is better if its late than if it never shows up

 

Rain-X helps it come off easier.

 

don't be so cheap,,,use lots of window washer. Most trucks now have a 8L capacity,,far cry from the old 4L or smaller reservoirs. Don't be afraid to use diff lock. Biggest issue up north here people who don't use diff lock and spin out on Lake Superiors routes long grades screwing up traffic for everyone.

 

Park it if you don't feel confident. Nothing worse then a guy holding 2 lanes on a 2 lane road and a super trucker trying to blast past

 

Which brand of wax do you use on windshield? An how often do ya wax it?

 

Load heavy on the drives,

 

Just basic turtle wax, and usually every Monday only cause I wash the truck Monday morning

 

I p/u a 2 stop load on the mistake on the lake she told me I must load the 1st stop on the rear of trailer 1st because they stop loading at 1pm on fri. so after I got loaded and pulled out the door snow was deep on the road, on way to get next p/u it was hairy driving with 0 wt. on drives, after I got the heavy steel put on ft. of trailer it was south bound and down all the way to AL.