Good strategy?

Start at a new England company then. Driving around the new England states is it's own little specialty.

We typically cut those and the PNW out of our atlas.

 

@D.Tibbitt <===Guy chains up and down like six times a day through the winter in Montana. Never #####es about it either.

 

Id say practice when its summer and dry and prepare for winter...also go on smaller inclines like in west Virginia or Tennessee before you tackle the Rockies, Wyoming is no joke in winter time....

 

I am of the persuasion is it really necessary to put oneself at risk in bad weather. What is in the trailer that it must keep moving? I have had my share of moments of driving in bad weather. We know it doesn't take nothing but a "thin sheet" to go skating across the road. To each their own. Where I'm at in my life I park it nowadays in a safe spot until the road is clear enough for me. All the best in your travels no "truck skating" allowed

 

you don't need to drive out west in the "glorified" Rockies, the north east has lots of snow and mts to learn in.

I moved south to get away from it and then started driving and ran NC to Monteal and Toronto and back every week for 15 yrs. tanker and van.

lived in Wyoming for awhile. less snow,but real windy and freakin' COLD !! lol

get you a job up there and you'll be fine.

welcome to the forums Squid!!

 

Wyoming is no joke anytime of the year with that 90 mile section of I-80 running diagonal NW to SE from around Elk Mountain over to Laramie with the wind they have out there.

 

Hahahah come stand next to me in the chain up area and you will hear the cuss words flying

 

The wind out there was 10 times more nerve racking to me than the snow. I've had nervous anxiety many times while driving in adverse conditions, but I've only been down right scared once. I was hold up at the Loves in Cheyenne waiting for the wind to lift so I could make the short trip up to Casper. I had a really light Denver Mattress load. I checked the weather when I got up that morning and it said "patchy ice and light winds" and there were no warnings or restrictions so I took off.

I learned REAL FAST what "patchy" and "light" means in Wyoming. I got up through there and within 10 miles or so on I-25 I started hitting "patches" of ice that were a quarter mile long and the wind was slapping me broadside. I was slowed down to maybe 10-15 mph and I was tucked in behind a Werner truck (who was also obviously light) and I literally watched his trailer start jack knifing every time we got hit with a gust and I could see mine doing the same. One time I just knew it was going to push into the ditch.

I was never so happy to see that Pilot in Casper. I don't know about that Werner driver, but that's as close as I've ever come to needing a shorts change in my driving career.

Anyway, "patchy" isn't a three quarters of the #### highway being covered in quarter mile long sections every 100 yards or so in my book. So keep that in mind whenever you're out that way. lol