Confidence on slick roads for someone new to trucking.
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Flyingdriver, Feb 22, 2021.
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Smooth ice, at 32F, where you get significant water films? Absolutely!
But drier, cold ice, especially if it has any texture, can have much better traction. Even cold black ice is far better, as there's less melt from tire heat as more of the tire's heat is used to warm the ice to freezing, resulting in less water film. That's not to say cold black ice isn't hazardous, it is, but compared to black ice near freezing, it's a night and day difference in traction level. -
It always was my practice when I was still active to park when significant icing was forecast. I had several ways to see this, most notably was my weather radio. I was always just a wuss when it came to ice and thick fog. Back in the day just stayed parked. I was the capt of that ship and when I made that call to stay parked I stayed parked. I remember one of my last discussions with operations on this subject. FM called me and asked me what was my intentions. I said keep it on the QC. A strange thing that QC?? Once told to keep it on the QC operations always seemed to get religious! When you make that call to park stop communicating via cell if you have a QC AND keep the number to safety handy!
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Zanadu Thanks this.
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Bad weather drivers, how do you keep from getting mesmerized by conditions?
Blowing snow, felt like I wasn’t moving here..Attached Files:
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It's not unusual in dry powder conditions to have significantly slow when you meet traffic and you're on the downwind side, especially on two lanes. There was one memorable time on a cold windless night that I had to run over a mile behind the truck in front of me to have visibility.tallguy66 Thanks this. -
My current truck does not have a trolley brake, so I am at a disadvantage there as well.
I have really missed that option in the past month or so.
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