Do you guys lay around all winter when the roads get bad?

Heck no, teddy bears are for girls. I stay with my stuffed monkey named "Frank".

 

I've had guys pass me 80 mph on snow covered hammer lane..just dumb.
Ever see 50 car pileups in july?
I trust my abilities but not so sure about habib's.

 

seen a bad one in August, 2004, East of Laramie ,WY up at high elevation I-80, fog and rain.

 

rates double in winter?

why do the rates of food and fuel exponentially increase in the winter and one needs to stay on top of that?


do you guys lay around all winter when the roads get bad?

if we did, we'd lose the truck, lose the house, maybe lose the family.

a truck driver, even an o/o needs to earn his/her money weekly to provide things for his/her family and to stay on top of ALL the bills they/we have.

now some o/o's maybe even a few company drivers, may take "some time off", like me example, i take"up to" 4 weeks off (at various times) during the winter, because i am entitled to 7 weeks paid vacations.

so yeah, i take Christmas week off and go back after or about the 5th of the new year.

then i arrange more vacation time with my boss, so he can get a sub-driver for my route.

but as drivers, unlless one is ultra rich or has busted his/her hump to get way ahead of the money game and bills, we work all year long.

we may "wait out" a severe storm and get moving as soon as possible when it is safe to do so, but lay around all winter?

i think you would need an office job, and even then, you STILL HAVE TO go to work...

until one hits a major lottery and can actually lay around all year long, everyone has to go to work.

this is not an entitlement job.

one earns time off, and one makes vacation plans well in advance, weather not withstanding.

 

Have been working every winter, only coming back home for Christmas week.

 

but then, you come out of the closet..????...

 

So, if I haul fuel into a power plant, and it snows, I'm supposed to stay home and wait for the power to go out because the power plant has no fuel to burn? Or I haul milk from the farm to the dairy, am I supposed to tell Old McDonald Farmer he has to dump his milk because I'm scared to drive in snow?

No thanks, not happening on my end. If there's a State of Emergency and the road is closed, I'll stay home. Otherwise, I roll. If that makes me a worthless supertrucker, so be it. At least I'll have some good stories for my grandkids. And I'll be able to sleep at night knowing I did my job when others wimped out.