weather routing this week

I definitely would reroute to avoid weather back east. Just too much traffic, somethings gonna go wrong.

Sometimes I will do it out west. In general, a couple of inches of snow ain't slowing me down too much, unless it's I80 in Wyoming.

I usually stay off WYO I80 in winter. I go around

 

I've never let weather dictate my trip but have paused it for a few hours for conditions to improve.
Easier to roll west thru the storm than east running with it.
Heck I've been known to hit county roads when the interstate is shut down.

 

Running north and south,from Houston to Edmonton,we dodge storms all winter.We stay between I 35 and 287.If snowing around Denver take 83 from Childress or 385.Shortest trip is just under 2300 miles on 287.385 is a few hundred miles longer.I 80 around Cheyenne is the only sketchy places I've been through when it's snowing.All the I 80 traffic gets held up in Cheyenne if 80 is closed.Before I leave Houston I always check on conditions from Cheyenne to Billings,then pick the route I will take.

 

Last year heading to KC out of Chicago and a bad winter Strom forecasted. It looked to hit I72 and US 36 area, so I decided to just go out of route a bit and Run I80 across and that back fired on me. I80 got pounded the other way barely got anything lol. Choose wisely them weather reports/watches/warnings are not always accurate

 

It depends on where I am and where I’m going. One time last year I was on my way to Phoenix and they were predicting a decent winter storm up along 40. I told the office that if there wasn’t anything available where I could miss the weather I was going to stay in Phoenix a couple days.

Ended up getting a light load out of Phoenix so I ran up through Page up into Utah and then across WY and into South Dakota and across. I had smooth sailing the whole way and missed the chaos and closed roads in northern AZ and NM.

 

Only snow worry was chicago to south bend in anyway, your routing would already have avoided that.

Being from the part of the state that WAS an issue, and learning to drive in erie pa, no, 4 inches of snow is nothing to avoid, 2 foot maybe. The thing that i might change route for would be a freezing rain and 35+ mph winds... but the wind itself is hard to avoid, and ia has plenty on its own

 

Michigan already had a big one this week it's was on I94 between Benton harbor and and Battle creek, Every year it happens there.

 

Some company drivers are required to run a route dictated by the company. Some company drivers will only get paid according to the one route the customer will be charged. If they want to drive a longer route, they won't be paid more money, but they are allowed to do it.

My choice would require a balancing of the extra time/miles and the severity of the difficulty or how widespread the bad conditions might be. I don't see much reason to change things for a forecast of 3-4 inches of snow. If the snow is coming from someplace and will last more than a day or leave 6 inches of snow, I would consider a re-route. Almost every state will plow and salt the interstate so that level of snow just means driving slower and staying farther away from other vehicles for the time you are in it. Every year it seems like more and more drivers of all vehicles treat less and less snow like an apocalypse. I'm not accusing you of that, it's just a general observation. As the technology gives us more info we seem more afraid of non-perfect conditions. Snow forecasts are among the most difficult to accurately predict and therefore the TV weather people predict 100 of the last 3 snowstorms, if you understand that sarcastic point I'm making. Having to run all day with the windshield wipers going and having the truck covered in road filth from snow/rain is not the end of the world if the state keeps clearing the roads. I would not detour based on a forecast in many cases. I would detour for snow that is currently moving to an area. Radar over forecasts, is my guide most times.