What's the worst part about winter?

It surely must be. I've seen some pileup videos on youtube though and no idea why some trucks still run in such snowy conditions and at, what look like, high speed.

 

But, but, but.....that's what they do on Ice Road Truckers???

 

Not only is it legal, it is mandatory. It's even better than driving 1-5 am.....No drunks!

 

you would be the captain of your ship/demise.

do one thing, you get #####ed at

do another, you get #####ed at.

i call in sick when it is snowing in TN and i live here in NewEngland, and the snow will not get here for 3 days.

i wannabee safe.

 

Not the worst part of winter is being in my situation.
I'm at Rawlins, WY, right in the middle of a major storm area and highway closure.

I got here yesterday afternoon and was supposed to deliver in Denver this morning.
Didn't happen because I-80 closed just after I woke up at 0115 this morning.
Now, I-80 eastbound is closed from Evanston to Cheyenne because everything in between is full beyond capacity. WYDOT has no idea when I-80 will reopen.

Not the worst because, I could have been stuck along the highway with no place to safely park.
I think a lot of trucks are in that position right now.
I'm lucky enough to be at TA, with showers and food and coffee...

 

The worst part is chiseling the truck out of a glacier every morning ......



Always wanted a barn door garage (heated) for the old girl .....

 

I managed to roll up in Evanston where they shut Eastbound I-80 down. I assume it is best to continue a ten hour break and hope the highway is open at 1am. However even then I am skeptical of the road conditions. It looks like the weather will be clear for the next couple of days, but there will still be ice on the highway right?

 

Looks like a good time...

 

probably not a good idea, but a necessity at times. have done it for years. pour a little in the line coming off compressor and in both gladhands a few times during winter. never had a freeze up.

 

. Thaw with care

Alcohol is often used to thaw frozen brake components, but it can choke air supplies when used incorrectly.

Approved de-icers should only be poured into the emergency side of an air system, identified with a red gladhand. Haldex, a maker of brake components, approves methyl alcohol, but bans everything from isopropyl alcohol to ethylene glycol antifreeze.

The latter fluids will swell O-rings within brake valves, and will break down the lubricants that protect internal pistons controlling the flow of air.

Fluids poured into the blue gladhand marking the application side of your brake system will only sit on top of a valve’s piston and keep it from opening when air should be allowed to pass.

Meanwhile, the alcohol also needs a path to travel. “If you don’t drain an air tank first, you’re going to pour gallons of alcohol in the front, and it’s not going anywhere,” Holman says, referring to the way air can fill a reservoir and not allow anything else to pass. “It (the alcohol) is just going to go to the lowest point in the air line and sit there.”

A little solution will also go a long way since it’s the vapor – and not the alcohol itself – that thaws the frozen components.

“I’m saying use an eighth of an ounce, not half the jug,” VanderZwaag says. “Besides, if you’re considering it in the first place, what you should be asking yourself is, ‘Why do I have moisture in the air brake system?'”

www.trucknews.com/products/take-care-of-your-air/