Company says no chains?!?

Let me guess...Thursday of last week. Some people waited days to finally get through the pass.

 

Single screw, going over the big hill in the snow and everyone else is afraid to leave the parkinglot. And does it safely. Makes everyone else whose gripped with fear look like a bunch of candies.

Someone is going to read this, figure out what a single screw means, and decide that its too dangerous for you to be on the road and hope some politician starts legislation to keep you evil single screws in the parkinglots with the sane drivers who know better than to go out and throw chains. "We will teach you to shame us, you evil single screw chain throwing hill climbing snowdrifting fiend!"

 

Chain installs happen to be very easy. I have only done it once and had no problem getting them on. Its a matter of getting them as tight as possible. Leave the flat side of the hooks against the tire can tighten them down. Real simple.

 

Yeah it was thursday. I didnt want to wait being I had another load picking up going past the house for christmas. The flying J in ellensburg I stopped at to get an extra bag of chains, there were tons of people saying how bad it was and they were going to wait. My options were to get over the hill and pickup next load in kent or wait it out and not get my load til monday and miss christmas with the family.

 

Thursday thru Saturday I chained 7 times, and
ran 1800 miles in Oregon and Cali

 

everytime i ran into a manditory chain up i shut down watch a movie by than the road is clear for me to go barefoot. hit the road and 20 miles down the road i pass everybody that was talking big crap about me stopping, out in the cold unchaining and putting everything away....i ran 80 and 90 alot and didnt even carry chains..yea i know your suppose to have them burt i was not caring more weight when i wasnt going to sling steel over my high dollar shoes.....lol hell i ran through wy back in 06 when they got hit real bad. ran barefoot to the loves where everything was shut down even for those with chains. when they opened it up the chains rolled out than an hour later we got cleared for barefoot and i left passed everybody sitting on the side un chaining .....lol

 

Maybe you should've told that to this guy. We weren't in the oil fields but he went down a good old mud road with the snow and rain falling. Picture quailty sucks but single axle shaker single axle flatbed. Took this the day after he got stuck guy made it worse because he was on the south side of the road straight when I left. Passed the road the next day and this is what I see so I figured I'd snap a pic and use it for educational purposes

 

Putting this discussion back on track, minus the bravado, name calling and attempted intimidation, there are lots of companies that have the carry but don't use tire chains policy. The order of the day is avoid, re-route or shutdown. The ounce of prevention being better than a pound of cure being the main impetus for that policy.

Again, it's a policy of the company, any accident with chains is a preventable and a cause for immediate dismissal. Yes, they pay layover pay if required to shut down. The February 2011 ice in Louisiana was the first time I found that out. Was shutdown at the Pilot in La Place, and got paid for all time shutdown by weather. So counter to some of the excessive testosterone, there are companies that pay you to sit out the bad weather rather than risk high costs of liability, insurance premiums, lawsuits, vehicle damage, cargo damage, and possible driver loss, because of an accident resulting from lack of common sense and concern for all parties best interests.

 

I'm very confused with "bad enough to need chains". All they are primarily is to get you to a safe place or to get you over a mountain. The weather doesn't need to be bad, and they do as they are intended. Get you up the mountain. I guess I'll never understand the fear that comes with chaining.