Advice on my current situation....

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IMO...

Accident #1: if I was a trainer, I would have called it too, bc that's HIS truck, and he doesn't want it to come back on him...if someone noticed anything.

Accident #2: Practice requires practicing CORRECTLY...which mean you didn't get out and look. Being a rookie, requires doing the little things correctly all of the time. Even veterans have to get out and look...I do it all the time if I'm unsure of a situation.

Accident #3: I think you let the fact that other vehicles behind you made you think you had to accelerate faster...who cares about them anyway?

Also, if it was that icy out, you shouldn't have been driving to begin with. You're just not going to be sliding into a guardrail, coming into a turn, if you didn't REALLY punch the accelerator.

Should've taken lot slower than you did.

Accident#4: Blizzard? And, more ice? The 3rd accident didn't teach you anything?? You should've been off the road here, and everything else that happened here, wouldn't have mattered.

Bottom line, is you don't have good judgment right now...and, you shouldn't be driving until that clears up.

 

What's this "black ice" people speak of ??? Is it another way to say you avoided the signs that the road may be slippery aka very shiny in freezing temps with no salt spray coming off tires .. I drive in snow and guys are driving like grandmas then it turns to freezing rain and the same people blow by me.. LEARN to know what surfaces you can stop on and lock differentials if starting out on slick conditions uphill

 

I also would like to know. I keep circling back to this problem.

What intersection precisely would be outstanding indeed.

 

If I'm reading correctly.. a rookie mistake.. When he started to go he accelerated because he was on an incline.. which caused his front tires to not grip and him go in a straight line into the guard rail with the wheels turned I'm assuming.

 

Shiny road... Hm... I thought it was just pretty and sparkly

 

You should see the shiny I was presented with on I-70 West of what I think was St Charles at speed. Solid 72 over the top, Detriot bucking at the governor And then the road noise went away. The splash vanished. Whatever rained on the glass was now tapping.

RPM's did not make sense, Added RPMs knocked it past the bottomed peg and nanny in engine cut fuel.

I had started downhill speed now 84,how it got 84 mph on what is essentially a gravity truck downhill with a engine that needs some guidance on what to do.

One echoing[I C E]echoing

followed by two more. Im dead. Just a matter of how it's going to go.

About a mile she found dry pavement with a thump that threw me into the wheel and tossed everyhing out all over the cab floor etc.

Mashed the hammer to the floor and gently but very quickly testfloated each gear for fit. Find 6th put it in and she settled into pulling upgrade. Say about 26 or so...Aint long before she is back at 72 with just a few others to keep up. Complainly faded into the memories to the rear anyhow.

 

black ice is ice you don't see, it blends into the road, does not have a sheen to it.

It is an overused and misused term by those idiots on the tv, so people start using the term to mean just ice. I get pissed when the traffic girl says black ice or some other clown says it as if it really black ice.

A few weeks back I hit black ice on the road, there was no sheen, no warning and my car went a little sideways. On the way back home on a different road, I hit ice under a bridge, I could see it as ice, I could anticipate it so I didn't have the issues as others did because I just didn't panic.