Do you Chain up, or pull over and wait?

Chains are for securing cargo and girlfriends.

 

LMGTFY

 

Some time you just spin tires very slowly for 2 or 3 hours in the middle of the night. Until you get to top of that stupid hill. Just push inter lock rocker. Diff lock is better.

 

It is one of those mellinial abbreviations.
Let
Me
Google
That
For
You

My daughter said it to me once.

 

If the chains are there, they are there. If they are not they are not.

Ive run barefoot just about all of my trucking. It's not the snow that is the problem (When something slams 10 feet drifts overnight, NOTHING is getting past there...) it's going to be the ice. Most of my stories have revolved around ice.

That is why I have a set of ice chains made in Austria in my personal vehicle. Fortunately I don't use them much because driving on ice requires a certain... light hand in a car and a lighter foot. The other traffic is actually a threat than I am on ice.

And that lays the other side of the story for me. Ive been damaged enough by ice. I rather not run on it.

I use (I love the word I today... it's disgusting, I know it...) a simple rule when deciding if I should take a 18 wheeler out onto the highway ice today. If I slip and fall on my ### walking to breakfast across the truckstop then more than likely that truck will stay put.

How long? Well Nature supplies the answer. Dripping water. When the sun is out and everything is dripping and melting, GET GOING YER LATE ENOUGH AS IT IS. =)

The science behind that logic for those who demand it is simple. The 18 wheeler presses a certain amount of pounds per square foot of contact with a pavement or ground under the tires. That weight per square inch is very close to that of humans believe it or not. If the human slips, you can BET the FARM that big boy is going to slip and spin as well.

And I save my favorite parting shot for stupid chicago. (Sorry...) they always send a army out in a few snowflurries turning a dab of snow into a ice overnight once the salting gets through slushing everything by sunset to freeze in the night.

By the way I don't particularly think much of the message conveyed by the two symbols left next to the title of the thread. It's something that has no place here in TTR. Not outside of unmoderated passworded parts of the forum anyhow.

 

JGMAB..
Just grab me a beer.