winter driving

thanks i will do that!

 

It only takes him about 3 minutes to chain up. Canadian eh !! lol

/www.truckstopcanada.ca/forum/showthread.php?5356-Installing-a-set-of-Heavy-Trygg-Chains..(not-in-my-driveway-either!)

http://www.truckstopcanada.ca/forum...eavy-Trygg-Chains..(not-in-my-driveway-either!)

 

never put on chains, i wouldn't mind learning but i can't get west of dallas.

 

The Bleach Equation


Ever wondered how Clorox® bleach is made?
http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/students/rdhighlights.html
The bleach cycle starts with salt water, which is broken down by electric current into sodium hydroxide, hydrogen and chlorine.
The sodium hydroxide is mixed with water. Next, chlorine is added to form sodium hypochlorite, the active ingredient in liquid bleach. The bleach is bottled and shipped to retailers.
Consumers use bleach in washing machines or on household surfaces. As bleach reacts with stains and soils, it begins to break down. The cleaning process turns nearly all of the bleach back into salt water.
Any remaining bleach is completely deactivated at a municipal treatment facility or in a septic system through biodegradation.

 

If I could thank you twice I would....hmm,I guess I just did LOL

 

Bleach is used to treat a lot of biological spills as it has a disinfectant nature. Just watch out for acids they don't play well together.

Hot tires on snow and ice, no this sounds like a really good deal to start with.

Next time try some 16 grade sand or kitty liter.

 

If a trailer is coming around the only way to get it back in line is accelerating gently, hitting the trailer brakes will only make bad things happen faster. You need to be paying attention before it happens so it can be corrected as soon as it starts.

 

Watch out for bridges! Do not shift, break or breath on the gas on bridges when there is ice or snow on the road. The only time I jackknifed a truck is on a small bridge, recovered it immediately after passing over it. Feeling a strange zero gravity almost stillness that instinctively breeds fear then seeing your trailer out your drivers window not the mirror, puts a ball in your guts that's almost indescribable.

Keep your RPM's high when climbing on slick roads. Your truck produces HP at High RPM, not torque. Torque is what breaks drives loose in most all cases. 2) Always downshift 2 gears when dropping a gear to climb a grade, then float it back in with the RPM's almost maxed out. This is so you will stay in the high horsepower low torque range.

Keep RPM'S low when going downhill, use the breaks a little bit more than normal, never engine break for reasons already mentioned. Keeping RPM's low going down hill is so you can give the tractor gas and outrun your trailer putting it back behind you where it belongs when it starts to jackknife and outrun your tractor, wich is what happens in most jackknifes on slick roads.

As the little warning signs say, don't ever use cruise cntrl on slick roads, the engine will give your drives full power when your rig slows down a bit breaking your drives loose. Always use the pedal and be gentle on it.

Dont use the clutch when shifting on slick roads. You can use to take your rig out of gear, but alwase slide it back in, never clutch it in.

Anybody thinking about starting out in trucking this is a bad time to go to school. That jacknife I mentioned above that happened my first week in a truck, a week after the graduating CDL school. Middle of night maby 1-2 in the morning, I just crested a big hill and shifted up (on the bridge) that was the trigger. I was still learning to shift and everything else, my phaseI trainer making me run nights (they changed that many months ago where I work so PhaseI students cant run at nights). I am from northern us not to far south of the 49th parallel, so I figured learning to drive on the ice and snow in a big rig would not be two different than what I was used to and it would give me the advantage of having a mentor. Nothing bad happened, but it was a huge mistake. One should learn to shift, drive corner ets. on dry roads during daylight hours when you can see the best. After you master the basics with experience is when you want to learn to drive on the snow. Winter is a really bad time to learn how to drive.

To chain or not to chain? I hate onions, smell makes me sick. Anybody with bad taste out there like onions? So who is right me or you? Its just a matter of taste. As long as the person making the decision does so in a respectful fashion using common sense,making sure they dont obstruct or hinder another driver they are both right. Its simply a matter of taste.

Bleach (and homemade M-80's) is great for fishing. Any kind of a creek where there is a slow moving hole and some big fish will work perfectly. Open up a bottle of bleach pour it in. The bleach settles down to the bottom removes all the 02 out of the water. The fish all come up to the top gasping for air. A spear is best to grab the big-uns.