How to prevent ice from forming on cascadia windshield wipers?

"Real pilots don't need to see outside, but rookies do."

 

20 years ago you could use the tach to tell you what is going on. You could leave the high beams on for 45minutes+ and not need to dim them for oncomming traffic. Not anymore.... Gas is cheap, cars get crazy fuel milage, everyone is everywhere just looking for a place to panic and stop right In the middle of the road

 

I've never had a issue with defrost and visor down. And my fan only has 1 speed. On.
Kw, Fl, Pete, and Mac.

It's not the cure but it does help. I also use the -40 stuff. And slow down when it gets bad. Obviously.
The windshield gets a chance to heat up a little more.
The -20 freezes up in my car jets. I"m not using it in the semi.

There's no solution. But there are tricks that can help.

I don't see how coating the arm with wd40 would do anything but drip spray oil on the windshield.

 

Same here.

tscottme
To your quote on tilted antennas though. We used to tilt them to 12 feet from ground to tip. That way they wouldn't drag going through the Holland Tunnel in NYC which is 12.5' then Lincoln tunnel 13' after 9/11. If you didn't they would hit the bells once in a while and set the alarm off and they would make you turn around no questions and it was a long way/time to the bridge at rush hour. Stacks were 11' 3" from ground to tip and was a good warning signal for any low doors tree limbs also. So there is a reason for some of us flatbeders, The thought of being in the saggy paints crowd makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

 

Flip flop season is over.

Shouldn't you slow down in winter conditions?
Or do you really want to take a ride through the rhubarb at 80mph?

 

I get a few bottles of that spray deicer at Walmart and when the weather starts to get bad, I spray my mirrors and wipers whenever I stop: that helps ALOT!!!!

 

They do sell heated wiper blades for trucks, but, they are kinda expensive........

 

Well I did see a driver wearing shorts and a winter coat yesterday.

 

Purple washer fluid awesome.

Shorter blades sorta help, as does tapping blade arm (I use tire thumper to reach around A-pillar)

Trailer-width tractor windshields are the problem, IMO. Older trucks with less glass heighth & width easier to keep clear with defroster help. (Don’t forget the 12V fans everyone used to mount. That’s where the sun visor down trick worked).

Truck speed is what can’t be overcome. Stop more often is about the only remedy. Make it part of the trip plan. Known time/distance pulloffs. Safe ones.

 

The ocean storm of 2008 in Houston would disprove that theory.