Snow and Black Ice

depending on snow conditions. i usually park till daylight when the plows come out. so i can see the road. 10 mph gets you nowhere and tired real fast.

ice always gets parked. unless you want to throw chains on and feel brave.

some truckers have really big cahoonas in the snow. some ge3t3 lucky and maket it through while others end up losing there jobs.

 

Or their lives...

 

snow- ice all the same too me i slow down, i don't give a rat behind me ether, i hate when it rain's then turn's ice, i know it against the law, but i learn that if take miss kitty away , meaning shove into neutral and let coast too stop i get better control on my stop, i did get hit once in the right steer after i did that, 100 percent ice , i stopped fine for light, just sitting there, waiting too go when this blazer lost it as he mashed the brake pedal , his door was mess up , i lost three chrome cap's off the lug nut's, o =well they never stayed on anyway, cop wrote him up and told me too get the heck out there, no argument from me, but i found the next truck stop and parked it. that hot load gonna have too wait .

 

Your mirror head and arms will show ice long before the body will. The old Freightliner C/O's were nice, you watched the upper left corner of your windshield (heat never got there).

Up home we had a sure fire method for ice in the night. You motored along with your tires singing away. Then everything suddenly gets quiet. That's "The Flutter of Angel's Wings"... you on black ice dahlin'.


Oh, one other thing, if you see a truck with Quebec plates.... do NOT follow him.

 

yes but many trucks today do not have metal mirror mounts. That is why I suggested feeling the metal on the door.

 

pretty easy , just watch the truck in front of you, if back doors are layer'ed with ice, then it's cold enuff too pull over for black ice

 

If the road looks wet and you see no spray on your trailer tires you gonna die!!!!!!!!







JK but it is time to get off the road at that point.

 

January 2011,I75 NB,mm 336, a bridge, just north of rocky face,ga.,I encountered black ice and knew it immediately upon hitting it.It was sleeting/freezing rain like heck too,i was waiting to find it,but sometimes we must press on and traffic was light.

Anyway,as i was creeping along,getting passed by ALL the generally slower company trucks,that is the only time they'll pass me unless in construction!,I watched a truck slide across the two lanes,rt to left and knew what was happening.it was an Interstate Distributor truck.I shut'er down right there at the bridge,turned on my flashers,got on the cb and was advising the traffic behind me.

cars,trucks,big trucks were all ATTEMPTING to drive around me & up the shoulder,and all were sliding out of control,from rt to left,that is 3 lanes,all coming to rest against the concrete bridge railings and each other,big truck against big truck.So that is actually 4 lanes they slid across. couldn't help but think just who sheit their pants. WTF? reckon they thought that i was just stopping for the hell of it? even the truck drivers were trying to keep driving.

Georgia FINALLY got to that small area w/their sand/salt dump trucks,i mean they were already all over working the highway,and they couldn't make it across the bridge,sliding into the cars and trucks that were already sidelined.

My point? use common sense.If traffic is already stopped and literally piling up,what makes one think that they will be the super trucker that makes it across the ice? If sand/salt trucks are already working it, drive accordingly if you are determined to keep on moving.Trying to pass on the shoulder? really? anyway.there are indeed times that you just can't keep on trucking and black ice is one of those times.

 

i remember a time when shoulder had gravel on them , thats why they did that

 

with or without a gravel shoulder not even you,i would hope,would attempt to pass like that when there were several vehicles,big trucks inclusive,piled up and already blocking the highway from piling up,across the bridge.they were driving up the shoulder passing 13-18 trucks already stopped because of the ice.
obviously you had to be there.I'd like to think you would not have made such an idiotic decision even while you were still driving.but then again,some drivers,and ex drivers, have that super trucker mentality while lacking common sense and/or good vision because all one had to do was look around to see the chaos. I will use the far left lane to pass slow trucks drag racing each other in dryer/no ice conditions but fall far short of that ice driving super trucker status.i'd like to think i know when to say when.

I too recall gravel shoulders and opted to not attempt to continue at least until the mired up sand/salt trucks could get things less slick but I was first in line and suffered zero claims because i chose to not continue-