High winds - I-80 vs I-70?

No fail ? What's that ? Only fail load is livestock and then ya find a sale barn and off load em .
This is ground transportation not air freight .

 

Wow, SuperTrucker 101 - no wimping out like company drivers.

Tell me, Super, if you roll the load due to high winds - will that be a fail?
More of a failure than waiting it out and getting the load there safely a day later?

 

There is no such load as no fail. And pulling the brakes because of weather is called safe operation.

Now 50 mph cross winds and an empty trailer make for



But hey at least he was not a wimp right

70 does cause some unexpected cross winds, but so can Wyoming. My advice is to run 287 up to 80 and play it by ear. 10mph is not that big of a difference, and your more likely to hit pop up weather on 70 IMHO.

 

Got to stay up on weather forcasts & what is happening.

Also, have I-25 up to 90 as option, so that gives you 3 options now.

Similar distances, but 80/84 shortest by a bit. 70 & 90 close to same.

70 hits much, much higher elevation & accompanied unexpected conditions that go along with those elevations.

Crap shoot except for watching weather, but I would say 70 most likely to cause most unexpected issues.

 

70

 

Just a guess here, your not used to running the intermountain west.

 

I-70. Wouldn’t mess with Wyoming that light. I’ve ran Den to SLC for 6+ winters now for 5 years I did it 5-6 days a week 365. If you want to for sure make it i70 is the best option.