CHAINING...are you ready?

Oh yeah...Joe P. is a hoot isn't he?

 

funniest and scariest trip of my life, Dec. '98, two days before Christmas, took an empty liquid nitrogen tanker from Denver to LaPorte, Tx. for export to Saudi. Apparently, sometime after I meandered through DFW about 8pm, mother nature played a cruel joke on DFW folks and made rain turn to ice. I dropped at the Port @ 8am, called in to see if they had found me a "power only" load to bring back. Nope, time to bobtail back to Denver. Oh, and watch out, they had an ice storm in DFW overnight. I figured heck it'll have melted by the time I get there. Nope, Texans on ice , not only the scariest exp. you'll ever have, but one of the funniest. I still recall the hysterics of listening to all these drivers crying about being empty and sliding, while I'm bobtail, praying that the fuel in my tanks is enough weight to keep me in a straight line. Almost made it through unscathed, until about Bowie, Tx., sign says "WATCH FOR ICE ON BRIDGE", grandpa ahead of me in a Caddy slams on the brakes 1' from the bridge, well, the bridge may not have been icey but the road surface was a sketchy, I did a 180 and ended up with my left drives on the right shoulder and me staring at a Werner who barely got stopped in time.

Don't they realize Albuquerque, which sits squarely on 40 get's upto a foot of snow every winter, maybe they need to stay further south, say about Chihuahua.

 

Yeah....I sat for three days in Santa Rosa one time when the Panhandle was hit hard with ice.....40 was closed along with the two-laners....

 

was born in CO....trained in the snow, and mtns....have driven almost 22 yrs coast to coast IN ALL WEATHER....just these last few years they have gone crazy with these chain laws....ran I 80 for MANY years all year round....lived in MI for 7 yrs right near grand rapids and ran local near all the lake effect snow and ran canada in that time as well....just because after all these years I CHOOSE not to run in it...doesnt mean i cant or i hibrenate.....just sayn

 

I'm ready for all these dang snow birds to fly south for the winter, the traffic around the Springs the last 2 weekends has been crazy with everyone out enjoying the HOT weather turns a 30 min. parts run in to a hour ordeal

 

Got my chains out and ready Saturday and was really thinking hard about just leaving them off the truck due to the extra weight plus I have not been running the mountains the last few weeks ........ well have a load to Rifle Co. tomorrow. so I guess a good thing I put them in the box or else I'd be out there doing it right now in the dark.

 

I hope CDOT gets that cluster between Mack and Fruita fixed before it snows....DOT told me they had the E/B coop "Go Dark" because after drivers crossed the scale.... They were routed to US 6 to Grand JCT.....Apparently a few numbnuts cut the corner making the right turn to US 6 and wiped out that utility pole on the corner.....So DOT thought it best to "Go Dark".....

 

That's one way to put them out of work I guess, now if we could get drivers to start doing that all over the country

 

Glad I had the chains, D.O.T. was set up at mm 132 on I -70 asked if I had chains, "yep" , than told me have a nice day.