First Time Driving Through Snow Storm

Push your Air Conditioning button to it on, turn the heat to max, set vents to blow on windshield, fan on high, visors down. If you get to hot crack a window open.

 

Get some winter wiper blades. For me that has always been the best solution to prevent them icing up. Basically they are wipers that are wrapped in rubber and makes it difficult for ice to gain any traction on the blade.

 

some say long term use of alchohol rots the rubber tubing. I did it for one season. The alcohol smell would come through the cowl vent. I buy the ice melt windshield wash. also have electric wiper blades to keep from accumulating ice.

 

I’ve had good experiences with the rain x windshield treatment to help with shedding ice and snow on the windshield. The best advice is above though, keep the cab/windshield hot as balls, and open the window if you get to hot, once it gathers up on the windshield you have already lost the battle

 

This.

Rain-X® -30°F Extreme Temperature De-Icer Windshield Washer Fluid - Rain-X

 

Yeah, freezing wipers/windshield was the problem I never quite solved. There are several devices that may help but they seem better suited to an owner-ops truck than a company driver's truck.
1. Heated washer fluid
2. Heated wiper blades
3. Heated strip that attaches to bottom of windshield on the inside.
4. Special washer fluid.

There is a myth putting your sun visors down and running defrost on high traps heat and helps. It may trap heat, having a heated top half of the windshield never seemed to help me. YMMV It is true that if you keep the cab warm/hot enough just stopping for a few minutes will make it easier to break the ice off of your wipers. I did keep a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol to spray on the windshield to melt ice but that requires stopping. It's very effective at breaking up the ice, but not preventing ice buildup.

GM & Ford used to have a car model or two where the whole windshield had a coating and when it had electricity flowing through the coating the entire windshield would melt ice. The Crown Victoria, some wedge-shaped minivan had this windshield. Airliners have a similar thing in the layers of the material on their windshields, but it's mostly to keep the plastic layers of the windshield from getting too brittle and breaking easily at -50 C at altitude.

 

If you keep your defrost off and windshield stone cold snow won’t stick,, it just bounces off

 

Really good point, have done that when too cold to win the battle with heat