Winter/Cold Weather Trucking

Do whatever you can to protect those power steering, antifreeze and any other hose. Also, a hood insulator (those thick blankets on the hood). Paccar seels a Artic package but according to a mechanic at Carlile in Alaska, it needs some modifcations from mechanics. I am hoping wildkat will chime in and elaborate what I mean.

KH

 

Power service or Howes. I think you can pee in your tanks and it will work better than this over priced junk.

FPPF or Penray winter power plus works very well with ULSD /LSD. can be hard to find but worth it. 8-9.00/qt treats 250 gal

 

To be real honest, i've never used chains or been in bad enough spots to use them. I'm from Oklahoma (North Central area) and have mainly ran a 500 mile radius. I have made runs to Lansing, Michigan before to pick up things for Conoco Phillips (trench boxes, etc.) but never any heavy ice/mountain stuff. It's not a requirement to have them here, but I can't speak for the laws in those other states you're referring to.

 

yes. For example in the sierra nevadas in winter time and as late as march at times on the nevada / cali state border they will shut the road down for days at times when the blizzard hits, and they will require you to throw some iron and even require you to chain up the trailer.

Then the heat like for exapmle i was just going from coachella cali to chicago and had to turn the a/c off when i hit the mt on i-10 and that was a pain in the ###.

 

yes the steer as well, but it all pretty much depends on what they say that day and yes it's one chain for dual tires as well. So yeah that would be a really really good idea that you have chains for all tires because i do. Imo when winters hits the worst parts are colorado, wyoming, montana, idoho, nevada, utah and the dakotas.

 

Just out of curiosity, what do those chains run you (price wise)?

 

last winter at a TA in Cheyenne, wy for 6 chains its was I believe $450