Illinois I-55 Pileup

Man I just went through there Wednesday. Crazy

 

Cadence - Metro Express. Tyson at the head of the pack.

No huge surprises there.

 

I went through there Thursday night... probably just hours before this happened... it was pretty nasty then. There was pretty bad slow down for a couple of 4 wheelers that had lost it.

 

So I'm curious, do these guys get fired on the spot? Are they going home right from there? On their own at this point?

 

There’s absolutely zero excuse for this BS happening… Either slow down or pull off and park somewhere to the conditions improve… There ain’t no freight anybody pulls worth wrecking over

 

I was in Columbus,Ohio around 1pm when the storm started hitting the area. Barely an inch and a half on the ground by 2 pm and there are already four wheelers and 18 wheelers alike, slipping and sliding off into the median and the ditches along I-71 between Columbus and Cincinnati. As soon as I got to Kentucky, I told my dispatch that I was shutting it down for the night and waiting for the storm to pass,as I had to head back up to Columbus today. They were warning about this storm for sometime, it was projected to dump between 4 to 8 inches of snow across parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

 

Up at my buddy’s shop tearing down a 455 Pontiac engine for his 67 GTO build. When I came down the mountain the roads were already covered at 9:45pm here in WV…..

 

That “Tiger” is gonna roar when it’s complete.
Is he going to do a Rochester triple carb setup or something else? Automatic or 4 on the floor?

 

Turbo 400 automatic, 12 bolt rear. Going to replace the dual point distributor with modern electronic and replace the original intake with an aluminum intake, the original 750 dual line Holley will be going back on it. I was 18 years old the last time we had this car out, been a while lol….

The engine came factory in his dads 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix model SJ with this 455 stage 1 engine…