Ice Road Truckers and HOS

Good Gosh! The stripe cannot be seen anytime you're on a snow covered road. You wouldnt know if they were turning or not or at night either. Anyone got a bigger story? I think it stuns the bears aand makes them hibernate.

I once knew an honest fisherman!

 

I think i will paint stripes on my tires next winter. I left the yard last month and kept looking out the mirrors to make sure all the trailer wheels were turning. It looked OK but i did not have and white stripes when i got out of the yard and was driving down the road i did see two black stripes on the pavement, one set of wheels was frozen and they had two brand new very expensive tires from the T A on there that had to be thrown away. That hurt.

 

think it is the same cause the window of the ice road their alowed to run 16 hrs a day with 10 hrs off also one must realize they can only run between 35 mph and 55 mph and at that speed devided by 500 mile its a long boreing ride plus the slipping and slideing also the mass quantiys of the loads,,,they have mabey 10 weeks at 3 loads per week per truck and 3000 plus loads so i beleive they worked something out with dot lol$$$$$$$$ you know those oil companys the have plenty of money to grease the palms the can bend any rules with enough money lol and guess what we pay for it at the pumps and deisel aint cheap up there think its like 5 bucks a gallon

 

Uh, ive never had this problem? When I leave the yard or truckstop i turn my wheels hard to the left until i can see all the tires and if they are turning or not, from the left side...

 

LOL dont paint the tires. Its far easier to buy a tire crayon. Its like a $5 item at any tire shop. As it has been mentioned, the white is too see if you have a stuck wheel. The tire crayon marks will wear off in the snow and is not harmful to the rubber of the tire. On a ice covered road a stuck tire will stay stuck and will pull you off the road.

The HOS on Ice Road may be a bit of satire. The people that make these reality shows dont need to be entirely accurate. One season there was a driver that was kind of a wimp that had endless problems with grabbing a trailer and they would lock up in 2 miles. Simply because he never checked his air antifreeze reservoir during pretrip. The show blamed it on bad luck. I blame it on stupidity of the show and negligence of driver for not being propperly informed or even asking at the shop. Heck I was taught this stuff at my school and CR England.

 

I saw yesterday on one episode where Hugh got a ticket for not showing enough of an off duty break, so they at least have some rules to follow. Can't believe everything you see on a reality show though.

I've seen that done on a car before, haven't on a semi yet.

 

In Canada when you are north of the 60th parallel, you have more driving hours and working hours than the usual 13 hours driving and 16 hours days south of 60,I can't remember offhand exactly but I think it is increased to 15 hours driving, and an 18 hour working day the reason being longer drive times between places.

In Alaska they have similar rules.

 

Hopefully I can help clarify a few things for you guys here...I drive for the particular trucking company that is being profiled on the t.v. show. HOS is pretty much the same as the lower 48 except we can drive 15 hours a day with 20 hours on duty, we also can log 80 hours on duty in 8 days. Aside from that we have to follow all the same rules you guys do, DOT has a scale at the start of the road and they also do drive the road and perform roadsides from time to time. Someone already answered why paint the trailer tires, so you can see them turning in the mirror while going down the road in the snow. Some of our trailers have those cool little yellow plastic stripes that are bolted to the lug nuts on the rim, but as you can imagine those are a bit more expensive than a couple cans of krylon when you have a couple hundred trailers!

 

It just amazes me how you know everything there is to know about trucking allready maybe Drama channel should hire you to team with Drew
pretty sure you boys could fix the whole winter hauling bussiness right up