"Out west"

HeY BigD,
If he's riding WITH you -- wouldn't those "seat covers" be in YOUR Big truck?

I suggest they wear Depends -- I hear they come in all sizes. Perhaps XXXXL would hold it all.

 

Ok i have run allot of all the Pass's you guys talk about and been there and done that like allot of you have. The major differance i have seen in the mountains is the ones on the east coast seem to be a little steeper in ways but not as long for sure on the average. You may run into a 6 or 7 % on the east coast but normally only last about a mile or 2 at most. When you get out west the 5 to 7% are every where and run for what seems like 30 or 40 miles in some cases so its not the grade so much as the length. And the Phrase i was all ways taught was" you can come down off every mountain to slow but only 1 to fast"

 

I was wondering if they might shut it down, all the wrecks I saw were between laramie and rawllins. I saw a Knight driver walking around his rig that had spun and jacknifed in the median, trailer pointed east bound tractor pointed south. I saw a fed ex truck that looked like an angry giant took a can opener to it.......... brrrrr I don't want to see that again, but I have the feeling I will this winter......

 

I seriously have lost count on how many fed ex doubles I have seen get wrecked...jacknifed, torn in half, shredded to bits on the 110 mile stretch of I80 in WY. I don't think I will ever ship with them.

 

I think CMOORE is joking. Or he is extremely naive. I live in Colorado and ran the west for many years. Even before the interstates were finished. Most of us love running the west for all the stated reasons, but we also respect the mountains, for all the stated reasons. LONG grades are the norm and as many eastcoasters have found out you can burn a set of brakes real quick! Winter is an added challenge. Getting off the interstate on secondary roads can blow your mind. Try 11 miles of 11% grade. If any of you come out west it is great, but listen to what others have to say, use the common sense God gave you, and go slow down mtns. It's not hard, but can be scarry{like a super roller coaster] the first few times. You will get used to it. BTW, no one mentioned going up. If you go up from Phoenix to Flagstaff, and the temperature is near 100, gear down to keep the rpm's up so the engine works less and the fan and water pump are at their best. I've seen way too many trucks on the side of the road steaming on hot days, sometimes you think you're driving thru a junkyard. Again, long grades are the problem. Just because you can pull the grade at 1700 does't mean you should. Slow down, gear down, and you can make it to the top while others sit and wonder what happened. Just a little advice from someone who's "been there, done that".

 

this particular day the road conditions were bad, packed snow all the way down. interestingly though all the wrecks were past this point.

I've been over I-80 about a dozen times from Oregon to Illinois in my POV. visiting my folks in the midwest. 80 is pretty tame compared to 70 between denver and I-15 in my book.

and I'd always run west if I had a choice, I'd never see the northeast if given the choice

 

I can tell you 2 roads I will NEVER be on again. The first one is RT 160 in CO. That one goes over Wolf creek pass. I've done that one 5 times. It's bad when you can count the number of times you've been there. The second one is in the same area. I came out of Albuquerque, NM and came up old RT 550 to Montrose, CO for a load of corn. I have NO desire to EVER travel those roads again. I did it and learned not to do it again.