CHAINING...are you ready?

https://www.facebook.com/MoDOTStatewide/posts/10152090332355857

This was a link from a FB group that, based on the comments I normally see when chains and/or snow are mentioned, needs to change their name to CDL Lite. Here's a sample:

Now, since we are talking about Interstates 44 & 70, I might indeed shut down to just avoid the mess sure to follow a heavy snow on a highly traveled road that's not in snow country, but if night time comes and it's chains or sit? Seeya!

The funniest part is that you can almost map the responses based on where the person lives, by and large the "park it" crowd live in the East or SE and have never even attempted to put chains on much less driven on them enough to justify their "it's unsafe" declaration. As I told one of them on here somewhere a while back, they can sit in the truckstop and make themselves feel all self-righteous talking amongst themselves about how foolish we are to be out there chained up; but we all know the truth. You are either scared or lazy, and all the talk in the world doesn't change that.

 

I would prefer they would "park it"....It's bad enough we have to deal with the 4-Wheelers who can't drive in snow...Why add to it?....

Stay home boys and girls....Allow the professionals to drive in the Winter....See yas in the Spring....

In the Rockies...That's after the 4th of July.....

 

At least the people in the NE can drive in snow. We saw the people in the SE. 2 inches and they acted like it was the end of the world. Please. Keep them in the south. I'm still confused with the "unsafe to chain" mentality. Obviously they don't know what chains are for. Let them sit at the truck stop. I don't have to be hassled every 5 minutes to "show" them how to do it (aka, do it for me!) because watching the weather or learning didn't dawn on them till that moment.

 

Hey, what's wrong with bein' lazy?

 

There was a jackknifed truck on I-44 near Rolla this past Monday, guess icy and snow. They also reported an suv that landed off into a pond upside down. Snow and ice on the road.

The weather in the south such as in Al in the Birmingham area is due to not having salt trucks, or plows readily available like northern states. At sleet and you have icing.

Look at IN the past couple of rounds this past month, they have really failed in keeping the roads cleared and vehicles out of the ditches including trucks.

Winter driving is not something to be scoffed at, esp when you have to worry about black ice.

 

well leaving green bay today and getting to Omaha I was blessed with dry bare roads
but with the number of vehicles off the road I was glad I left later then planned
Of course there just had to be one tipped over 18 that just had to take a ramp too fast for conditions

 

Hmmmm, along that route, likely the 380 interchange?


And bravo, Otter!

 

good guess that is a likely spot
380 always has more then its share of spinouts
between 80 and waterloo
but this was the 80 exchange west of des moines

 

So Otter...When are you gonna run up to to Big Bear and "Max-chain" Hwy 38?.....