snow and ice on trailer roof...

tsk - you know law has little basis in reality. You know, and I know, and just about everybody who has seen a truck knows, you are NOT getting on top of it - even when the weather is good. In bad weather? ha! We have problems enough getting UNDER them to put chains on.

What I foresee is a brush-bar at every truck stop and yard. You drive under it and it "plows" all the snow off the top of your trailer.

Personally, My thought is (and has been from before I learned how to steer a rig) that if you get hit by a bale of snow from the top of the trailer, you shouldn't have been following so closely.

 

As a former auto glass tech i was wondering this as well. Im in school now at NETTTS, and CT has that law. Last winter i did a W/S on a civic that had a chunk of ice not only smash the w/s but go completely thru it and slam into the passenger headrest. luckily noone was sitting there. I was thinking they would impliment something brush bar esque, but then i was thinking, what happens when 200 trucks, each with 6 in of snow on the top go thru? after awhile thered be a pretty big pile right in front of the bar.

 

When a trailer is spotted against a building, snow will accumulate on the trailer, off the roof of the building, if the wind is wrong. If there is a gap at the top of a dock door seal, warm air escaping from the dock will condense and form ice on the rear roof of the trailer. Place the feet of an extension ladder in the bed of a pickup truck for safety and get on top of the trailer with a shovel. Ice may have to be cracked with a heavy hammer.

 

I see an income opportunity to develop something like the they did when they came up with Idle-Air.

 

What about the Auto Transports? I used to drive one and the ice and snow builds up on the racks and the vehicles, Good luck on getting the ice or snow off of them,

 

Amen there! I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not a spider!

 

I was just wondering the same thing. I guess we'll have to drive under the bar, then shovel the snow into a pile out of the way.

These laws are only going to serve as another way for the public to blame us for accidents that we can't prevent. I'd be willing to bet that the insurance companies are behind these laws.

 

#### good question Soon2 be. Falling ice is really a hazard that needs to be addressed.

 

well, re the brush idea:

1: put it over a pit that can be shoveled out with ..oh, an end loader or bobcat

2: angle the brush at about 45 degrees so all the snow comes off the side of the trailer, and then down a slope to a pit.

put these things at a truck stop, charge a couple bux to go through them (just like a scale) and there you go.

As for me - at 300+ pounds, I'm not at all sure that a trailer roof would support me in the summer time, much less than any time it has a ton of snow on top.

And I'm forced to wonder at the legality of such a law. I'm sure they see it as "safe operation of a CMV".. but . oh well, I'm not a Lawyer, and I for sure didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night