Another Super-Trucker w/video of his blizzard wreck

Trade her in for a newer model....

I hear they are training them well and to always agree with the hubby! LOL

I remember of a company, don't know which one, but they governed the trucks at a lower speed for new fresh out of school drivers for the first few month. I can understand that. But.....

Governed trucks are just for control by the company. It doesn't have anything to do with driver ability or skill.

I don't think anyone here will argue with the fact that this guy is an idiot...

 

Good luck with that one, Les....

 

Really its just wishful thinking....

If the wife seen that post she would beat me senseless....

 

Mrs. Les- :smt075. -Les

 

Its just a matter of poor judgment. I have driven though far worse but only to reach a safe haven. The conditions in the beginning of the video if I was to dumb to check the radar among other things then I would have gone also. But then again I did drive though ATL a few weeks ago to watch trucks passing me like I was sitting still then jack knife and slam into walls a mile or 2 later. I made it though just fine at my 15mph till I got to Redds house. Then I waited till I got good reports about mount eagle over the cb and then I took off. Its just using good judgment. I bet you that swifty made it though the storm just fine due to taking it nice and slow. should swifty been out there who knows cause I wasn't there so I couldn't judge the conditions for myself. But I didn't see any reports of swifty hitting the ditch or slamming into 2 trucks at once cause of them being dumb. its real easy ICE AND SNOW TAKE IT SLOW. As I was taught there is NO load worth your life.

 

Friday night I left Red Lake for Winnipeg in the middle of a snow storm. 100 miles of winding up and down driving an empty Super B. Slipping and sliding all the way. Next morning headed into Winnipeg and the roads were slick still. Hard pack snow and not cold enough to give it good traction. When I got to Winnipeg there was at least 8 vehicles in the ditch in about a 6 mile stretch and I was doing 40 mph. Despite this, cars were whipping by me.

Fact is you don't need to end up in the ditch or slamming into the vehicles in front of you no matter what the road conditions are, and yet you can still get to where your going.

Slow down.
Leave lots and lots of room.
Smoooooooth. Brakes, throttle and steering.
Anticipate changes in traffic.

 

I look at it like this. There's a science to run'n on snow. Feed the pedal like your foot is on egg shells. No hard acceleration/deceleration. Coast the bridge decks and under viaducts. Let it roll out on the shallow hills. Keep the steering to a minimum in the curves, letting the momentum of acceleration/deceleration take you through the top of a curve or drop you down through the bottom. Keep the rpm's out of the max torque range on the glaze, etc, etc
A good winter driver should be able to read the road and terrain to recognize potential hazards like a river captain can read the current around shoals and sand bars. If the wind is blowing across the face of a hill, you're going to have glaze. A wind block is going to settle the snow on the road, etc, etc
When I hear a driver on the CB telling how he just broke traction again and again and again, that just tells me he doesn't recognize the potential and adjust for it.

Sorry, didn't mean to make this sound like a driving lesson, but it's something to think about for some who don't think about it.

 

i have to co-sign on Long Hood's post.. until Wednesday night i've never encounter snow or ice.. but i learned really quick what "to and not to" do.

so much for the guy in the video, i'm not going to say he was stupid for driving in that, cause it didn't look that bad, it looked better then what i experience. and the wreck is understandable from how "HE" explained it. i mean if he WAS doing 30mph in 0 visibility, then i could understand how he ran up on two trucks, and it seems to hold true.

i mean snow is white, both vans were white, excluding the red that England has on the side of their trailers. and if you look at the damage to the trucks, it's not really all that bad.

if he went for brakes and slide (what's the distance for 0 visibility?)100ft, then i think he chose the better of the three choices he had,
1- being run off the road, and possibly flip/roll his rig.
2- rung smack into the back of another trailer, now we have cargo and structural damage.
3- put a little spit on it and wedge that baby in there, she'll fit, always does.

i mean what would you have done? lets say you're poking along at 30mph, and can bearly see 100ft down the road, and then you spot two trailers ahead of you blocking the two outside travel lanes, but the center "APPEARS" to be clear, kinda a tight fit. you step on the foot peddle and your ABS as always never works when it's needed most, you feel your load push your tandems side ways........how would you handle the situation?

but in the end he's still the last page in my book of life i'd want to read. guys with tongue piercings rank right there next to guys with tatts on their lower back.

 

You drive in it all the time, you're used to the conditions. This idgit commented that in 13 years "accident free" he's never been in a blizzard. Unbelievable the stupidity of some of the drivers out here.

 

13 years driving, my &%%! I have boots older than him.