Dispatch threatening drivers for not driving on ice...

Me too. Unless they shut the road down or a huge pileup, or the state's OSOW rules forbid travel, I keep going.

The thing that really hurts drivers is, when the weather breaks, they're dicken the dog, doing laundry and watching TV, or some other activity that's not important. Bad weather comes in waves. If you time it right, you can be through it by the time a 10 hour break expires.

 

I am the kind of guy that if you threaten to fire me.
I will just get out of the truck right where it is and consider myself fired .
I won't whine and moan I won't even tell you where the truck is .
You said do it or I am fired .
I am fired !
Because I danged sure ain't doing it .

Of course I don't have this problem because I refuse to work with childish petty sniveling cowards !!!!!
I find the older I get the less tolerant of stupid I get .
I have not done the things I have done in my life to let anyone anywhere tell me what I will and won't do or else .

I am a grown axx man and you ain't even my real dad !!!

 

If it's just ice and nothing else, slow speed and careful handling will get one through it. If you want to sit it out, then do so. No reason to emasculate and bully someone else over being cautious about their ability.
That said, the last time I dealt with the ice, it was Nov 2015 and it was the longest, 3-4 day ordeal of 10 hrs up, 1 hour pump, 10 hrs at the local hotel, 10 hrs back down, 10 hrs at my apartment, then rinse repeat.

Dispatch didn't have a problem with going slow and other drivers shutting down. But the dairyman was definitely being a "threatening" crybaby over his tanks nearly dumping milk and threatening with switching to another carrier that could get the job done faster. I kept telling this kid(only a couple years older than I) that all of the additional help(long haul drivers) got siphoned down to Mission TX by Florida heads and I "was it" for the next few days.

Sure enough, more help began to arrive the west TX ice began to melt and all tanks were emptied for filling promptly.

 

I agree 100% with learning and getting where it can be done.
1985 PA and NY snowing like crazy. There was 3ft in spots, and here this southern boy was. Never been in snow like that in my life. Dispatch told me if I did not get that load picked up by 4pm that evening. I would have to wait until Monday, as this was 11am on Friday. I had 225 miles to the pickup. Stupid me made it with a few minutes to go. Shipper told me that load had left at 10:30 am. Took a chance of killing someone.
I got fired when I made it in. Company did not like it, that I walked in. Knocked the dispatcher down! Funny thing is he would not charge me with anything.
I learned that day, I could drive in stuff I did not think I could. But also no load is worth it, if you don't feel good about doing it.
Skip 10 years and I ran all week on ice. Comfort level was better. I learned a lot of little things, that made it easy and not near as bad.