Chains and chain alternatives....

Its not extravagant.$19.50 hr. Just have to "suck it up and drive on".

 

If it works out for you financially, who am I to criticize?

I've driven some really hairy conditions for CPM rates and I won't do it again unless it's a mistake. Fortunately, my company will pay me $75 a day to shut down for bad weather with no questions asked. We rarely GET that $75, because it's rare to be shut down for 24 hours. But I'll take a bad day on the books over driving in truly SCARY weather every time.

Western passes aren't usually a big deal. Drive in Mass or NH after a nasty ice-stprm? That truly IS a big deal. -To me, anyway.

 

Copy i'm LTL also.Dont have luxury of OTR decisisions.GIT ER DONE.

 

Almost had "to do some laundry"one day.Coming down SR 904 to Blewett Pass ,freezing fog,pitch black,raining 5am.WTF four 800 pound elk in the road,YIKES!!.No time to stop,swerve around em.They didnt run either.This is their "Turf"

 

Sounds like you have a good manager.I Must have taken 30 minutes "pondering" maybe I should get a safer job? Then it hit me no job= $50,000 a year pay cut.Do I really want to live in a Suburban in Olympia's Safeway parking lot? To tell the truth,I'm becoming "Nutty anyway". Bring it on."Git er Done.

 

Oh,believe me...Western Passes can be a Big deal.Seen Conway "spin out" and a large hispanic gentleman "lay it over on it's side".And several other incidents,I'd just as soon forget.

 

Blewitt, White and Stevens passes are things I mercifully almost never have to deal with. Those suckers are nightmare driving ALL winter long, pretty much. And if you're LTL, I understand the urgency on both sides. Sitting for 15 hours in a day-cab sucks pretty much BARE. (Beyond All Reasonable Expectation).

 

Yeap, and its real easy to say that, when you are under 50 years of age. Once you crash and burn, you might well end up in one of those hospitals, and God willing you will get to live another day.

The bad part is where you take out a motorist and his/her family. I have met up with ex-drivers who were working the docks and or forklifts, and if they had it to do over again, they would not have done what they did, wiping out a bunch of people by driving under horrible weather conditions.

But ya' got to "get er' done", right?.Wait until the family of the dead, that you killed, sues your arse off and you will be singing a different song, friend.

 

Anyway, back to your original post, my boss also just purchased Autosocks for all our trucks (10 tractors, 3 straight trucks) after talking at length with their reps at a industry convention recently. They claim that with *proper* use, you should be able to get about 3 seasons with them. They said they have verified documentation from companies that have gotten 3 seasons, and even a couple that claim to have gotten 5 seasons out of them. That is assuming, again, they are used exactly as the company instructs.
One of the drawbacks is that your top speed is only 20 mph, per manufacturer specs, whereas chains are good up to 30-35 mph.
Personally, I would only use the socks for general highway use, and continue to use chains on the pass.

 

Save your Drama for Obama,thanks for the lecture.