CHAINING...are you ready?

some of us just learn to live with a pucker factor above others.

 

It got a little iffy coming down I77 in WV last winter... but they don't chain much out that way. Ended up in Mt Airy... Brindles ain't a bad place to stop. Called my receiver in Goldsboro on the way there to tell 'em I'd be a little late- they called the game 4 hours earlier when the roads weren't even a little bad, just kinda wet. Wusses.

 

Here it is folks.....

TTR's


POST OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What do you think of those chains that hang on your axles all year long, and when you need them you flick a switch in the cab and they engage, spinning under the tires as you go.

 

If I were in an area that I used them ALOT, I'd consider them. The vehicles I have seen them used on, school buses, fire trucks, ambulance and snow plows really make sense. Nice to be able to not throw iron that much.

 

I agree with MNdriver... if you were chaining, unchaining several times a day, every day during snow season they'd be worth the money. Really, throwing iron as often as we do it in general OTR is really not that big a deal.

 

lol, too bad you haven't a clue about me. 15.5 yrs and 1.6 million miles hauling containers, I spend 3 nights away from home per month. I sleep in my own bed every night, I take a shower in my own home every night, as for loads, no, my dispatcher gives me loads that he knows I'll deliver, using my brains and skills, and that I won't flake out and park it when the first flake flies. My only winter accident had nothing to do with driving, snow packed roads, or ice. It was equipment failure.

So, your company has no problem when you shut it down for 7 days to wait out the chain law? Your mortgage company? all your creditors are happy when you park it for 7 days to wait out the chain law? All these people are happy for you to sit parked for 7 days without a paycheck? What do you tell your customers? I suppose their just tickled pink that you played good little safe driver and parked it for 7 days. Tell you what, 10 yrs ago, one of our competitors took the same stance. They refused to equip their trucks with chains, they would just reschedule the loads. Instead, they lost thousands in business because customers got tired of loads being rescheduled because of a little snow. I was happy as the proverbial pig in slop back then, those 5 dozen loads our competitor refused to haul, we hauled, I took home $1,200 a week for the next 10 weeks of 5 day work weeks because that customer gave us those 5 dozen loads. Why, because we were afraid of snow, ice, wind and other drivers.

Oh, and those stupid drivers your mentioning, seems to me your company should hire a bunch of those 4-wheelers to haul their loads in the winter, because they aren't afraid of snow.

Chains get me through a snow storm on to my next paycheck.

 

probably a shaker with an MBE engine, worthless jakes on them.