Winters coming. Advice?

Make sure always have plenty of food and water in the truck, plenty of warm winter clothing, coats, gloves, boots, coveralls, etc. You never know when a road could become impassible and you have to sit in the middle of nowhere for days.

 

Learn how to chain up before you need to real. Practice on a nice warm dry day

 

Like the previous posters noted , get prepared with WINTER clothing , supplies and practice throwing the IRON when its nice out , also gives you a chance to ENSURE you have the correct chains before you need them.

See so many leaving the east coast heading for California without even a warm coat , because in California its WARM

Drive your truck in a safe COMFORTABLE to yourself manner in your first storm , pay no attention to the CB cowboys who brag about how fast they drive regardless of the CONDITIONS

 

The biggest thing I avoid in the winter is the predictable pack, or herd of trucks that always seem to think there is safety in numbers, that might be the case in a lot of scenarios, but not so on winter roads.

 

Move to Texas?

 

Warm clothes,Blankets and extra food.Practice throwing chains and check their condition.Make sure your truck is up to snuff,Antifreeze protection level,tires with good treads,keep your tanks full or close to full to avoid condensation and gelling up.Drive how your comfortable.Better to get somewhere a little late then not at all.Those CB cowboys aren't paying my tow bill or my insurance deductible if I wreck so let them talk.

 

If you run coast to coast, always think well ahead if you're on one side of the country headed to the other. Be aware that sometimes the southern route may be much worse then the northern route but you have keep yourself abreast of forecast weather on a national scale.

 

just put it in gear and haul ### lol. but seriously just stock up on warm clothes, food, know how to chain and stay away from packs. I honestly run a lot at night in the snow storms so that way I am out there alone and can take my time and also generally have the road to myself. I like knowing that I am going to have room to maneuver with no one around me that I have to worry about hitting. only drive as you are comfortable.

 

Memorize a good prayer you can cite as your sliding off the road on a mountain pass going over a steep 2,000 foot drop off.