Tired of snow in the winter

well next time i am at mortons i will leave you a pm see if you got time for coffee

 

May not be there; just this morning got off a train trip in China. I'm in Beijing checkin' out the "attractions." If I'm in Las Vegas will gladly buy your coffee and lunch.

 

This.

I don't think it matters much where you live unless you are local in South Florida, Phoenix, or Los Angeles. Even if you run regional, you will encounter snow somewhere in your travels. A driver based in LA has Tehachapi (and even the Grapevine) to deal with. A driver in Phoenix has Flagstaff and I-17. Texas, as was pointed out above, gets snow, as well as some hellatious Ice storms.

Winter brings freezing and frozen precipitation to most regions of the country, even in the deep south.

 

This is a very tough area to operate in in the winter. Especially the last two! I haul mostly logs--which means a lot of off road work with heavy loads. Lots of chains, some times 3 sets, maybe even 4. And you can't get them off w/o sand and salt dripping down your back and neck. 2 or 3 pairs of wet gloves. And cold, very cold, with frozen straps. Sometimes you can have over a thousand pounds in slush and crud on your rig when you cross the scales. But no bugs or mud like now. And logs pay well. Don't call a northern New England driver un-manly for wanting to leave, call him wise, I think!

 

They just said that last year was warmer around the globe except Quebec and north western Maine.....

It's beautiful country around here but #### it's cold!
Even our summers are colder in the last 3 years!

 

well i spent my youth in Newburyport Mass
from 30-50 in Portsmouth Nh
plowed 95 from Portsmouth to Peabody for years
now I am in Green Bay Wi
winter just happens ice storms in the south are scarier then any snowstorm I have been in
including the snow of 78 spent in the Cape Cod Nuclear power plant on a repower outage .........one 4 foot snowfall

 

this thread intrigues me... i live in the southeastern part of Wisconsin, and drive flat bed, mostly steel coils to minnesota and return back to wisconsin with a not so great paying load. i'm an owner operator, leased on to a small company. i'm tired of living in the cold during the winters, and i hate working in it even more. i'm looking to move to Phoenix for the winters, just like all the other snow birds. my research of this goal has just begun, but it's interesting reading all the other truckers perspective on things. good luck on your ventures...

 

He lives in prison ?

 

well he goes to China a lot
maybe he is on one of those lists
kept by Homeland security

 

Yikes; have you read the book, "Grass Soup"?
Grass Soup is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of Zhang xianliang during his 22 years in prison in Mao's China.