At what point would be considered lightweight? In Wyoming i80
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rugar6866 said: ↑Thank you for posting this. My husband and I always get into arguments like this because he seems to not be that bothered by the high winds. I’ve cried to him to please pull over. He does but he’s not to happy bout it. Maybe reading this post from you he will think twice. Thanks again.Click to expand...
I ran across WY twice a week, every week for nearly 5 years and only ever had to stop for wind a handful of times with REALLY light loads. If youve got 35k + in the box then you should be fine most of the time provided you slow down. But if it gets really slick with high winds, or the winds start gusting 60+ mph then it's best to stop even if loaded to 80k gross.
In my experience such extremely bad conditions were pretty rare, but not unheard of. I was stuck in Laramie grosing 79,900 for over 48 hours once because gusts were over 70 and sustained of 55+ for the whole of 2 days... And it was extremely slick on top the wind. I was finally able to slip through to Nebraska in the middle of the night as soon as the winds died down a little... By dawn is was completely closed because of a couple of major wrecks.
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