Chainin' Up With Dave In AZ

Last week, going over Donner, chains required.
Road was wet about 2/3 of the way, only about 300 feet had a trace of slush, that was caused by the plow working the shoulder.

 

It was mentioned here earlier that both Oregon and Cali are using chain laws to slow down traffic. I've also seen CHP doing a rolling road block on I-80 around Truckee to keep the idiots from flying off the road.

Using the chain law to slow down vehicles is a very, very expensive way to slow down traffic. It just kills the road surface (thank you, Mr. Obvious!) and it is heck on equipment. My suggestion is to implement variable speed limits (and enforce them). A driver would loose much less time (and get much less cold and wet) being slowed down to 25 mph over a pass than by driving 35 on chains. Not to mention the reduction in damage to vehicles and the cost of chains. As a side benefit, you could have the enjoyment of watching the super-truckers and cidiots get ticketed after they blow your doors off...

 

Yeah, but how much of that was bare pavement?

 

Lots of tanker companies here in Co., run them on both drives, there is a one company that also has them on the rear trailer axle for running the back roads

 

I've used my Pewags (made in America) 3 times last winter and 6 this winter, so far, still look great, after today, they almost turned into mud chains though

 

For good or bad, Colorado does random safety closures on I-70 at Silverthorne. They'll randomly shutdown the EB side on Sunday afternoon for 20 minutes or so, allow traffic to thin out through the tunnels and down through Georgetown, then they'll reopen the road and aggressively enforce the limit, as well as use the slow moving trucks as kind of rolling roadblocks, they'll keep the road open for an hour, then do it again.

 

Pewags are the only way to go. We chain up a lot, both on the highway as well as off-road, and we've had better wear from Pewags than anything we've tried.