Lessors Inc, Eagan, MN

I have always said I would chain once just to try it. I would go stir crazy sitting for days waiting for a road to re open.

 

I'm not going to waste any time arguing about this with people I don't know. My choice to chain or not chain has no effect whatsoever on your life. You go right ahead and chain up and play Billy Big Rigger and roll across Donner at a snail's pace if that's what you need to do to feel better about yourself. I'll be headed to a titty bar with a stack of dollar bills.

 

Hope this isnt pointed toward me. Your choice to chain or not has no bearing on me, heck I am not even OTR anymore. You and only you can decide what is best for you and your truck.

 

It isn't

 

You are in just as unsafe or even more unsafe conditions during a rain storm, a construction zone or a bright sunny day. With the exceptions of the big wrecks posted last winter (2 in WY and the big one in MI) it is more likely you will be in a crash during warm and dry conditions than chain-up conditions. Just look how many construction zone crashes have been reported just in the last few months. They far surpassed all the winter time biggies.

 

Most of our western drivers have been outfitted with them over here now that NV has approved them. And they stopped requiring the driver to keep those stinky things in the cab once they've been put on for the first time.

 

After I passed 60 I decided to spend as little time under a truck and trailer hauling chains around as possible.
I think if I was 30 I would be much less adverse to them.....

 

If I don't want to chain I will go to work for a company that stays east of 35. Going to work for a western company that carries chains then saying you don't chain seems to me your trying to make the company conform to you. I will have to raise my concerns to my boss about how I think he should run his company