Be Careful out there drivers

I’m not driving through Wyoming or Colorado during winter. I will do it in the summer but not winter. Same thing happens in California on the 395 between Barstow and Reno. I’ve seen many trucks tipped over due to wind , it always looks the same. The way they are laid out on the road , that one was wind. Sad situation.

 

Doesn't Wyoming normally put out a wind advisory for high trailers/light loads?

 

They do, that guy most likely decided to go anyways

 

I’m stuck here at Little America. 80 across Wyoming is shut down now. The shut downs crept across East to West starting this morning.

 

Those prime trucks tend to be real light too. At least it wasnt anything major. Sometimes stopping isnt an option either. A stopped truck on the interstate was blown over recently in colorado.

 

The thing that is irritating about the wind advisories is they dont keep them updated all the time so you have to check local weather reports, which of course you should be doing when hitting I80 Wy in winter anyway. I dont want to disparage DOTs work in Wyoming, I've found them to be quite good in most other areas.

 

Last winter I was stuck in the snow storm at rest area in Wyoming. State trooper saw me digging snow from under my truck and offered a phone number of a local tow truck driver to pull me out. Since the highway was still closed and I didn’t want to pay for towing I thanked him but continued to dig. An hour later he came with the shovel and helped me dig out. Soon he had a guy with a pickup truck to pull me out. By that time the front loader finished cleaning the rest area and they opened the highway. I think I was the first one to leave that rest area. As I was leaving I saw him knocking on the doors of other truck drivers to make them dig out they trucks.