Confused abouy Colorado chain law

Directly from the state of Colorado, bold theirs...

http://www.cotrip.org/truckers.htm


And the Colorado State Patrol, bold mine...

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellit...Layout&cid=1251594537897&pagename=CBONWrapper

 

To answer your original question. No, you don't need chains to go from NE to Denver. There are no massive hills and no chain up areas. Been asked a few times at Limon scale where I was going because I was not carrying chains. I said Denver and he said OK.

 

You might actually want to wake up the next time you travel I70 west from Nebraska bro... there's a chain-up area west of Limon. While you're not required to carry chains from Nebraska to Denver, there will be storms come through that if you don't have them you're taking quite a risk with your life.

 

Carrying Chains on I-70
(
effective March 1, 2009
) Commercial vehicles operating
on I-70 in either direction between mileposts 133 (Dotsero) and 259 (Morrison) from Sept.
1 to May 31 must carry sufficient chains at all times to be in compliance with the Colorado
chain law.
This is the only area in Colorado in which chains must be carried during the
specified season.http://www.coloradodot.info/library/Brochures/ChainTips.pdf


As CDOT says, regardless of what snowy says the signs at the state line says, this is what is enforced.

 

I do it all the time in the snow. It's not a big deal if your experienced

 

Those mile posts are beyond Denver

 

You evidently don't know what a high plains blizzard is.

 

I hear ya there, that stretch around Limon can be as bad as anywhere when it decides to cut loose.

 

I drive there all the time. If it's bad they close the highway. Other then that it's plowed. Any rookie can drive NE to Denver.