Help!! Snow expected in WY UT area.

I thought slut would get bleeped.
He could always #### down with a slut until the roads are clean

 

The mods can find a way to hot button that one around.

I have forgotten about the dancing truck bit myself. I don't worry about it. It's natural to me when she is doing the shimmy on that snow or ice. Does not bother me any. Now I can see where it might stress a newbie.

 

Keep in mind, though, I learned to drive in a little 4-banger 5-speed 2wd Ford Ranger in the winter outside of Chicago. At 16 years old, my parents knew not to expect me home until every last road was plowed because I was out having fun...drifting and sliding around learning to remain in control as I slid around. Got that from my dad, who used to take us to the church parking lot to do donuts and such whenever it would snow. Learn how it handles, learn how to control it. Once you reach the point where your reactions are instinctive as to how to catch a slide, the slide becomes nothing to worry about.

 

I'm also an Iowan and snow here is not even remotely close to out west.

 

And while today's kids think they are burning rubber trying to drift cars around dry corners. I was taking the boss's tractor trailer and finding me 4 acres of iced parking lot to play in. (Joppatowne, behind the old AP Store shopping center comes to mind...) and try a circle drift first one way then the other. Then do figure 8's until I can make that tractor go where I want it to under my control or more exactly suggestions. She'll go where she will #### well please so give her some room.

I did not know it then but that playtime or improvised skidpad games... was a vital part of learning ever for me. If the Boss caught me back then in those days I would be so fired. Fired. and fired. And maybe shot. Many years later she will break loose on that ice for real and try to fold on me in a fast jack knife. The hands already know what it feels like to try and get it back quick. like right quick from that play time. I never forgot.

 

I was thinking the same thing but the i and u are are right next to each other..

 

Don't let your nerves get the best of you park it before that happens.

 

Yea. This isnt about being a man or woman with NO fear. Having NO fear is flat stupid. Seriously. Not about ego, moxie, I AM etc. None of that hooey.

Fear is something that will keep you alive in trucking. It's good to be afraid. Scared even. The thing is this. YOU MUST FUNCTION. you cannot freeze and do nothing or worse surrender to that panic.

If you cannot handle your nerves and the #### is getting deep around your wheels with the stuff coming down harder. Park that ##### before you do lose it. No shame.

 

And apparently I don't type fast enough!!!

 

Um, I'm sorry PB, I normally agree with you, but not this time. Loaded, the heavier the better. Scales are almost always closed in a snow storm. Like I say, I did all my trucking in the Midwest, and that's when we used to have BIG snows. The winter of '88, the year I bought my 1st truck, was a nasty one. I lived about 3 miles from the truck stop where I dropped my wagon, and it was white knuckles just getting to the wagon. Once I hooked on, not much, except ice, would stop me. Empty, it was the wind, and bobtail didn't make a lick of sense. I understand your momentum thing, but I always took it easy, plowed through many a drift ( the kind that made your alternator belt slip) and if I broke traction while loaded, I shut 'er down right there, or the next exit, and wait for the salt shakers. It was better to be late, than to try and explain to the boss how you got all twisted up in the median.