Winter Driving Stories

This is called a joke ever heard of them?

 

now theres a winter story :smt038



ya know, I do have one... Something all parents will be able to relate to..
So my 17 year old is telling me how how he knows how to drive in the snow..(I lived in WI) Really mom, no worries...
ok, my eye brows raise, Lets go Kid..
I drove a delta 88! what a boat... off we go.. of course i take him where i know its "safe" ... little "S" curve, can see all around, open corn fields, walking distance from home.. Around first corner I tell him to nail it...you can imagine what the car did.. kid went as white as the snow, thought he wet his pants... Quite the lesson learned..

 

Did I call it or what?


Here's the thing, stabob. It's not ####iness. It's knowledge. And the ability to process information at rate most can't comprehend. Doesn't make me any better as a person, but it #### sure makes me a better driver. And I care enough about this profession to try and turn the light on for others.

Did you see me advocate driving faster to anyone? All I asked was for y'all to realize that me being a bit faster than most doesn't automatically equal being unsafe. It might be unsafe for you to travel at that speed, but another may actually be operating with a greater margin for error at a greater speed than you are travelling. You see, the driver is part of equation. But thanks so much for affirming what I earlier declared. Do please detail how someone from Florida is a far better source of winter driving information. SMDH

 

Well, when the Big Guy, or D O G wander in, I tried, really I did..

*munches on popcorn and finishes watching the show*

 

Just because I live in Florida does not mean I'm from Florida it just means I'm smarter than you I live in Florida! Isn't there a big snow storm up there you should be blasting around in? Or are you on your phone on ttr while blowing though it? I'm sure your that good right. Chill man I don't care how you drive I won't be anywhere near the god forsaken places you drive anymore.

 

Ain't gonna be no show. I can't show folks much when they're in the midst of a serious craniorectal inversion. I don't know why I bother, Sassy one, I really don't.

 

oh boy.. here we go lol..

well, after riding with ya in all kinds of weather, I'm kinda enjoying this..

 

I had to step out myself as i was losing my ability to remain civil. One can only deal with so much absurdity in one sitting.

I've been thinking back trying to understand the southern boys (CA,FL and Alabama so far) thought process about this white stuff. When i started this last winter with no experience i remember sounding just like them. Their problem is just no experience in the snow. They can't even comprehend what we are finding to be common sense due to our varying level of experience in winter driving.

You Couldn't have changed my mind back then either. My company is based out of Spokane and runs the majority of our freight East towards Chicago so you got 5 mountain passes and a whole bunch of frozen plains in between. It was a matter of necessity for me. Either sit out the winter or learn how to drive in it. They haven't had that experience yet so they are just remaining stubbornly ignorant.

Nothing but experience is going to help them understand what we do. It's not something one can teach through text although i think you did the best anyone could have in your posts.

 

Ok I'll bite. Just to clarify (and I already did so once in this thread but you apparently missed/ignored it) I live in San Diego. Not a snowflake to be found within 100 miles of my house at any time. I choose to live in a city hat has 75+/- degree weather year round. That does NOT mean that I have little to no experience driving in winter conditions. I initially got my CDL and started driving truck when I was living in central WA. I spent my first 3 years running western regional which to my former employer meant the northwest (WA, ID, UT, OR, MT, CO and when they felt generous CA or NV). Vail Pass, Snoqualmie Pass, Loveland Pass, Wolf Creek Pass, Donner Pass, Cabbage Hill, etc... Been there, done that. At the risk of sounding conceited I have more than my fair share (and probably more than YOUR fair share) of winter driving in your neck of the woods and elsewhere. My current company is NE based and a most of our freight is run in/out of the northern plain states to/from the northeast. I still get plenty of foul weather driving in every winter. When the freight demands it I will get on out there, suck it up and drive on.

The difference here is I have the experience and more importantly the common sense to know what I can drive in and what is unsafe. I won't risk my life, my license or my career to make some load planner or CSR happy. And I #### sure won't run 60 mph on ice covered back roads as you claim to in a previous post. What happens when you're running like that and come around a curve to find a stalled vehicle? Or the driver of said stalled vehicle walking to get help? Or any other hazard for that matter?

I guess the bottom line here is if it comes down to it I suppose I could keep up with you just fine. And I have no issues with folks driving their own way at their own speed when it's safe and legal to do so. But common sense tells me that if everyone is slowing down to deal with ice or snow I need to assess the situation and I should probably slow down too. And common sense also tells me that I should always assume that the drivers around me are going to do something stupid that may or not effect my safety. If they don't thats great and if they do I'm prepared.

I'm done trying to justify why you're wrong and why your arrogant attitude makes you unsafe. You don't get it and you won't get it until something bad happens. For your sake I hope that only your pride gets hurt and not you or someone else. And I'm off of my soapbox now.

 

LOL I will take snow ANY day over a sand spit with tornadoes and hurricanes. Not to mention the poisonous snakes without a rattle and the LARGE ones that swallow things whole. Hell most of the people down there aren't even smart enough to get out of the way of a hurricane and you see that coming for days. You can send up some gator tail any time however. I have a good recipe.

We had our first snow/ice yesterday and guess what? The stores still have food on the shelves because WE can drive there when we need more. In the south when someone drops an ice cube tray the stores look like a picked over food pantry with the exception of the fresh fruits and veggies.