30 Trucks Fail To CHAIN UP On Snoqualmie Pass

Now that I think about it, I would have done the same thing had I been wearing flip flops, track shorts and a cloth rug on my head that would get soaking wet...

 

These states are to blame for this stupidity..stop handing out cdl’s to braindead idiots who more than likely cant read English..

 

Simply not worth it most of the time. Just because i can chain up and get over snow and did so every winter for nearly 6 years going from SLC to omaha doesnt mean i trust all these morons on the road. See the OP and the hundreds of posts we get every year of mass pileups because some moron cant chain.

Besides after the whole warner thing where a 4 wheelers family managed to set the precident that you can lose control of your car cross the median and head on a semi and the semi and driver are now liable.....yea screw that noise. Not paid enough for all the wrecks, the risk or the morons.

 

I wish TTR had a LMAO emoji! Parking when it's snowing. That's hilarious!

 

Just have to avoid the interstate. Depending on where I was many times in the winter I’d come out of Seattle on 2 or if I was farther south I’d come across 12. Usually out there all alone just listening to the chains sing going over the pass. Didn’t have to worry about three other lanes of traffic going up the hill.

 

I came over right after that mess Friday morning. In fact I was heading for Portland when they reopened the pass.

Washington and other states need to have better communication on when and where chains are required.

heading east over snoqualmie there is a chain up area at the 34mm and they had the “traction tires required” sign lit. The actual chain requirement wasn’t until the next chain up area at the 47mm. They were two wide in the chain up area, the slow lane, and even a few in the middle lane of the interstate, hanging chains to run on bare pavement for 12 miles. It was barely snowing where I chained at exit 45.

Maybe I’m wrong, but the only way I knew to chain were I did was the CB, 1610 am (which was nearly inaudible), and the website if you read almost to the bottom.


Later that same day I parked in post falls because they were chaining over 4th of July. I knew that by checking the 511 app and reading the overhead signs on the app. Eventually they shut the overhead signs off and I rolled out. Two miles before the chain up area the sign requiring chains was lit. “####!”
I get to the chain area and that sign was off even though guys were chaining. I rolled the dice and went over barefoot. Not a flake of snow on the road, someone forgot to turn the sign off. If I were one of the drivers that hung iron for nothing, I would be pissed.

 

Should not even be ONE truck unchained but there are way too many lazy zzz steering wheel holders out there…ELOGs have made it worse that they dont even have to walk around truck to see the plate# on trailer..that info in the ELOG

 

No standards, no training, no English? (No problem!) Paid by the mile and regulated by the hour. Always donating time for free. Everybody loves their cheap stuff and Amazon prime free shipping. What does everyone expect? Those things come at a cost. Then you have disgruntled drivers, or even people who don't have sense eough, underpaid to boot, who just dont GAF.

 

One thing that always amazes me, and I have seen it a lot. You get drivers for companies that simply refuse to let their drivers shut down for nasty weather. It's a foolish policy, but hey. The thing that trips when out is when I go down a stretch of highway that has been cleared after a blow, see the ditched trucks, etc., but see the RV's. I can understand making a desperate attempt to keep time for a truck driver, but what were those brainless idiots in an RV doing out? A desperate attempt to be the first dumb ### to bang Mickey Mouse at Disney? What the hey?