Driving against the wind

If you ever feel unsafe, park it. period. Screw the dispatcher -- it's your life, livelihood, & license. You put a truck on its side and the best case is you won't be employable at most companies.

 

No worries. Just cause I took gold doesn't mean I show it off. ...I only show the talent to one, and she's very appreciative.

...yours only takes one arm? Huh...wonder if I've been doing it wrong.

Anyways! Back on topic. I hate being lightweight in any wind, it's relatively easy to keep one's lane but it surely throws my attention into overdrive. Not a bad thing, but doing it all day will make a driver tired. Heh.

 

Have you seen any truck on their side due to wind?

Ive been in for six months, a drop in the bucket when compared to most I'm aware, but I've already seen a truck on fire, crashed into another rig, crashed into a 4-wheeler and many that are just plain broken. It's possible to go your entire career and only hear of some stuff.

Im not defending anyone, I'm just saying that simply because people haven't seen one in person doesn't mean they are wrong. A handful of youtube videos can be found on it sure, but you might look into the statistics of rollovers prior to assuming they are common. I don't know the statistics myself, but I have a difficult time believing it's common. I've been empty and known the wind was blowing hard, but even when empty everything still has to add up right.

That being said, Anthony and I got off topic. So it's possible he just overlooked it.

 

I hear ya,I drive thru eastern washington almost on a daily basis.Mountain passes,Bluett,Snoqualmie,Umatash ridge(mispelled) etc.Simple answer to your dilemma is Just SLOW DOWN A BIT,GRADUAL STEERING MOVEMENTS,avoid jerking the steering wheel. You just kind of let the trailer do what it wants at first and gradually steer back straight.Leave earlier and slow it down.This WIND you speak of is amplified with a light load,hills,rutty roads etc.

 

I had one wind scare in IOWA. I was heading east towards the the Iowa I-80 truck stop to shut down for the night. It was dark and I didn't see any lightening right up until I got nailed. Luckily for me that there wasn't another vehicle beside me, because the initial wind burst pushed me almost over to the passing lane shoulder. I limped the last few miles with the tractor & trailer being knocked around pretty badly. I'm not embarrassed to say that my legs were like jelly for a few moments afterwards.

 

Many times drivers that go cross country, take the southern route, to avoid such weather extremes, i know I have! As far as only running the southern states in the winter? You had BETTER believe that many drivers with "time in" can and do choose their running routes.

 

Please refrain from calling me a steering wheel holder. I have been thru many high wind areas, more specifically heavy cross winds areas. Try driving over bridges in heavy cross winds. You need to worry about yourself rather than to try and make someone else look bad, as you have no experience whatsoever, so trying to "call someone out", is just not gonna work for anyone such as yourself.

and as far as "ignoring someone", I have to work, and cannot be here 24/7/365. As such, my hours here are limited. Just because you may still be living at home, I have a mortgage to pay, and need to work, good enough reason for you to understand, about you being ignored???????

 

I had the wife out with me for a few weeks in the winter of 2002. I got a load from the Charlotte terminal going to Seattle. The load had plenty of time on it, and it was my truck. We ran I-40 straight across to Cali.......and then headed north. There was expected bad weather on the practical routes, and I didn't want to her to have to sit in some truck stop wasting time on her little adventure. We ended up hitting some of the bad weather anyways, and I didn't make much money on the load,......... but we were rolling and having fun. That was one of the nice things about being a O/O......as long as the load got there on time, it was nobody's business but mine.