PSA From Wyoming Highway Patrol

Yup, i did the SLC ut to KCmo run for 5 years. It was a rare thing indeed when all routes were closed entirely. Think it happened all of twice in 5 years?

 

Yep. I ran from Idaho to the midwest and back every week for 5 years. Can only remember 2 or 3 times I got stuck in WY for more than 12 hours.

 

There are drivers that stay on the big roads and cry when there is ice out so they don’t work. Than there are the ones who work thru most of it all. If we shut down every time the highway Warriors got into a jackknife would be without work since we live up north.

 

i am really surprised with the on going weather changes across the world, LA does NOT invest in road equipment to handle this...they already have payloaders, bulldozers, and the dump trucks for highway work, doesn't take much to buy the salt shakers and plows, and slap'em on them dump trucks.

 

Like you said, it doesn’t take much to convert. I think it’s denial. Folks thinking and never gets cold and never snows but year after year seems like it’s getting colder in the winter and more snow and ice down south. It’s about time southern states take care of the roads. It’s just ridiculous to have vacations and shut everything on down and be lazy just because the weather. The excuse of not knowing how to drive needs to be corrected. Possibly teaching how to keep following distance and keep traction versus just to avoid all bad weather. It’s such a defeatist mentality to complain about anything in life and coward down instead of overcoming. Biggest plague that has hit our country is weakness. I saw in Afghanistan, when the US Army would not patrol routes because they were full of IED. They just completely gave the battle space over to the Taliban. I was so embarrassed.

 

Then you gotta get the salt, store the salt etc. And as soon as you need it you can't get it. New Mexico has that problem too

 

What is the issue?

Seriously asking as all the trucking I've ever been around was oilfield and logging where 80-90% of the driving was on dirt roads.

 

The rest of the country doesn’t seem to have a issue with responsibility. MO is a fair weather state that does decent. There neighbor to the south not so. Traveling 10 miles from one state to another and see that road crews are working and the other dot are home for the weather. Run towards work not away!

 

Lots of drivers that work for megas that need to be cuddled…