Ok, I'm curious.......

I did not shut down. I did not get snowed in. I was still out here making my deliveries & pick up right on time! And yes, I was in that storm from northern Wisconsin to Central Kentucky.

Why didn't I shut down like so many others did?

#1) I know my truck. I know what my truck can handle.
#2) I know my abilities. I know what I can handle.
#3) Regardless if I shut down or keep moving, I still got bills to pay.
#4) If I shut down, then I ain't making the money to pay the bills.
#5) If your not making the money to pay the bills, then your doomed for failure & I'd be ###### if the bank is taking my truck away!
#6) I ain't skeered!

Unlike most of everyone on these boards.... I'm alone! I have to same bills as many of the other individuals & I have the same bills as all the O/O's. I do not have a spouse or girlfriend with second income at my home to help cover a day or 2 of lost revenue! So, until they shut the roads down completely.... I'd be out here hauling freight & generating revenue while everyone is sitting in the truck stops pointing out the window say "Look at that crazy fool.... Out here working in this weather!"

Bills don't stop.... And revenue doesn't create it's self.

 

At that point get out the Drivers Atlas because there is usually some other way around the blocked road. You'd be surprise how many state routes are better than the interstate when the snow is piling and the wind is howling.

 

I run back roads all the time... Generally in crap weather though, I try to stay on the big roads unless it is in the wee hours of the night....

 

Exactly. Mine gut has not failed me so far either. Too bad we missed passing I'd have bought the first round of coffee or sweat tea.

 

You mean we don't get any points for that???????

Seriously......Even in dry conditions....There's 4-wheelers out there that think are trailers are targets....

 

I chain-up to get out of situations.....not to get into them....But I also use my judgment....

Snow doesn't worry me...it's the the two or three days after and then driving at night when that melt freezes......Then I'm pulled over....Too many single-prop rigs and 4-wheelers who like to spin-out in front of me...

So far I been through three good run-ins with snow....Haven't had to toss the iron......yet......

 

SOOOoooooo...you're the one that's passin everybody like some kind of loose screw. I'm just gonna leave it go with that much said...everyone but you knows what I mean.

 

running up here you really can't wait for the snow to stop because it doesn't stop, just the norm when you live in Canada, I can't sit around and wait for snow to stop or I would never make any money

Last year we had a snow storm every week, sometimes twice a week, and every week I would come home and have to plug in my tractor to plow the snow before I could get to my house