Road closures..what do you guys do..?

Cook a nice meal, watch a movie & sleep while I can. If I can't sleep, I watch the guys roll on knowing I will get good pics the next day from my dash cam.

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Call Scottie... tell him to beam me up.

 

I was on I-94 the other day and it was closed at exit 12 in MI.
I had stopped at the rest stop at mile 40 to wait it out. Several accidents in the way, and beyond.
Checked the atlas and decided to reroute down to I-80 via US 31, which I did once the accident at that exit was cleared.
I got down to I-80 and everything was fine... for about 10 miles. Then everything turned white and traffic came to a halt.

As I was less than a mile away from a service area I gave up for the rest of the day and night.

Lucky thing, too, both with the rerouting and the shut down for the night.
Both roads had multi-truck/car pileups that I might have been involved in.

 

I mostly feel lucky I am not the one causing the backup. All you can do is to be prepared and avoid the potential bad weather . I also use here.com to check on the traffic. Where I am at if I idle on the shoulder its usually my fault of not predicting it

 

1. weather= STOP & wait it out til roads are opened.

2. accident=wait it out , unless really familiar with the alternate routes available to me ..(read do not trust that GPS)

cow in the road=run over the cow and invite all my TTR pals to the B-B-Q !

 

Do not commit suicide!!! lol
Well, basically don't drive then...
It happened to me yesterday on I-80 Pensilvania, Exit 97... But luckily they closed East bound, and as soon as I got my load at that exit, they opened West bound only... But it was ugly...

Stay warm and be safe!

 

When you try to win over Mother Nature, you will lose any way. Take a look o my post, then you will understand better why to just stay at the truck stop and wait.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...39430-nature-rules-why-then-tailgate-bad.html

 

How many threads are you going to spam your own thread?

 

I carry two E-logs just for this reason