Headed into the upper midwest this weekend ?

Sounds like I "lucked" out. Had a load that was supposed to deliver in Norfolk Nebraska yesterday, but shipper cancelled it. Instead I got one to LA. Then truck crapped out in Utah, sitting until the freightliner dealer opens Monday morning.

 

Those quick moving heavy dumping storms are nothing to mess with, sometimes even a day or two after the fact.

 

Not sure about the luck part.
I would rather wait out a storm than have a broken down truck that requires the dealer to fix it.
The last time it happened to me it took over a week.

But I guess the truck would have broke anyway, and maybe you were in a better area when it did.

My last breakdown was in my Cascadia. A coolant line that goes to the DEF tank.
Fairly common problem from what I was told, and the part can be very scarce.

Everything was fine until the 'critically low coolant' warning came on, then the engine shut itself off 30 seconds later as I was going down a steep hill in WV.

Good thing I had enough air to get me pulled over and stopped, because it seems the drivers life is less important than a sensor reading to Freightliner.
Because the same thing would have happened if it was only a bad sensor. The engine itself never got starved for coolant, only the tank.

 

After I took my 30 in Rice Lake, WI it was all rain with wind down to Eau Claire. From Eau Claire to Madison, rain and wind, and I m in Janesville now, just wind

 

Got a driver in Holdredge said there was 3 inches of snow and still snowing I’m in Valentine Nebraska and it just started snowing here but I don’t think it’s going to amount to anything.

 

I’m home now and it’s 52 and foggy (less than 1/4 mile visibility) if winter doesn’t come back I’m going to have to mow the lawn.

 

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I drove in the rain yesterday from Emporia KS to Des Moines IA to Lincoln NE.

Loaded this morning in Lincoln for Fargo ND.

Got caught behind a jacknifed big rig on I 29 for two hours. Almost got stuck myself, trying to get going again.

Got kicked off the highway @ Watertown, SD. I-29 is closed from here to Grand Forks, ND.

The blowing snow is obscuring the road, and turning the road into a skating rink.

So........stay home if ya can.

 

Actually, I 29 is closed from Watertown, SD to Canada now