Can I park overnight in a Chainup Area?

Yes you may keep on driving...

 

no, you dont want to get in the way of professional drivers chaining up to drive on wet roads lol

 

This is analogous to "gee I am out hours(want to run in for a coffee, take a 30 min whatever) is it OK to park at the island or on top of the CAT scale?
Totally self absorbed, with no thought what so ever about how their actions affect others. Epidemic in this culture.
My mother used to have a description for people like that: Rude and ill bred.

 

No sir. What got you was altitude.

Weather takes the form of sea level to thousands of feet and then tens of thousands all the way to space at 80Km.

What is fine below Cabbage might be 3 feet of blowing drifts up there at 5000 feet because the snowing above you has evaporated until you climbed high enough to run into the winter weather requiring chain.

When weather forecasting insert snow level above 3500 feet with a forecast of so much inches etc then you are aware what passes are affected above that. It requires you to expand your weather awareness to three dimensions instead of just "Fine" on Petticoat Junction Highway.

Eventually you get good enough to understand what is possible in say the eastern Sierras or not during winter when routing.

 

No way, it's not safe and you will probably get ticketed. Just try to plan a little better so if you find out, you'll need to chain up, you can just find somewhere to stop for the night and continue in the morning. I know in Colorado when everyone had to chain up, DOT was on everyone's ### to chain up and get going it. It was backed up badly. Just chain and go or find somewhere nearby to stop for the night.

 

tripcheck.com Weather forcasts, current road conditions, chain restrictions.

 

Maybe if Colorado leased the western half of Kansas to turn it into one giant chain up zone...

Or at least until we invent tires or wheeled/tread devices able to do the same job without all that stopping or need for chain laws.

 

Sir,

I am the last person to be fooling with the new log book HOS. Im literally getting too old for that. HOWEVER.

For your assistance, the best I can do is this, read this over and consider it carefully. With a additional thought. I have only use this twice in my lifetime generally at least 30 months apart.

A driver can drive a CMV after the 14th hour after coming on duty, but not after the 16th hour, IF he or she:

Was released from duty at the normal work reporting location for the previous 5 duty tours, and
Returns to the normal work reporting location and is released from duty within 16 hours, and
Has not used this exception in the previous 6 consecutive days, except following a 34-hour restart.