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When the winds start to lift trailer or tractor tires off the ground, most will seek whatever shelter may be available that may be safer than riding it out in the truck.

Today many of the smarter drivers monitor radar and other weather app tools that may be utilized and know when to park and wait or keep moving and travel out of the storm's likely path

 

True, I do that.

Once your in it, there is no going back. Imagine a long stretch of road hundreeds of miles from anyplace in either direction. Big Bubba can't pull over because he's taking a top secret weapon to a facility that will save man kind. Well, his only protocol will be to pierce through the storm! Dunn dunn dunnnnn!!

Is it gonna be like a MadMax Trucker movie?

 

Depending on the storm, the day of the week and other factors. Such as, are you able to get off the road. Are truck stops full, rest areas, on ramps and so on. Is it safer to actually keep moving? I've encountered instances where it's impossible to get going again if you do stop. Ice/ snow and the like. Trucking can be hardcore and it take a certain person and a boat load of intestinal fortitude to do this job. It's a way of life that many believe they can do. Some find out, there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. We all wear chain wallets ( don't know why) lots of turquoise jewelry ( again, no clue why) cowboy boots with pointy steel capped toes and faded leather cowboy hats with the brim rolled up too. And we all have stories.

 

Yup. Some of 'em are even TRUE.

 

The worst thing about bad storms, such as tornado warnings, is that they warn you about what counties it is going to hit. If you don't live in the area,you have no idea where they are talking about.
I got off I25 once north of Casper, WY for strong winds. I just parked in a small truck stop and lined up the truck in the direction of the wind so I didn't have to worry about it blowing over.

 

Problem is, most of the time you're just tooling along, listening to satellite radio or podcasts, and then the sky turns green...... Stopping is extraordinarily rare, but sometimes you just have to pull over. In Idaho, that never lasts more than a few minutes

 

Sounds like a Steven King kind of scenario. The general public is not going to have a clue as to why the driver stopped and happened upon the Texas Chainsaw guys. Just write it, let us know when it is in the theatres and we will all go...

 

Years ago me and 2 other guys pulling bull racks down I 35 just north of the Texas line in Oklahoma we were headed south. It was late in the day and we get these late day thunderstorms that can have tornadoes in them. So here we are just cruising and it starts to ran bad, next thing you know all 3 of us are on the shoulder sliding into the ditch.

We get stopped, and we are stuck like 25 or 30 foot from the road. Cops show up, we tell our story he laughs at is. Thing was we walked back a mile couldn't find where we left the road. There was 10 foot from where pavement ended and our tracks started in the grass and mud. How did we cross there without leaving tracks?

 

If it's gonna hit odds are murphys law will go into effect. u won't have time to pull off anywhere but the shoulder.