I-40 Flagstaff Scheduled Storm Closure (Feb20,2023)

1600. Google maps showed everything horrible 60 to 10 out to Tonopah was a disaster. Getting off at the TA to fuel was a big big disaster. Would have been worth it to pay higher price than take nearly 1.5 hours to fuel thats 4 sure.

 

Dang dude !! You hit that right at the worse time lol that traffic is like that everyday if u can believe it... That traffic starts about 2pm and dont end til almost 7pm . You getting a load out of cali?

 

Ya, wasn't good. Nearly 1.25 hours to fuel at the ta in Tonopah. I won't get into that. I'm leased onto a company so ya, one of our agents offers me a load headed to Texas. Way better than anything on ITS, considering most loads I've seen are going for $1.15-1.60

 

The loadboards are so bad out here its ridiculous . i got to keep a trashcan near everytime i log in . so i dont throw up all over the carpet in the house

 

Ya, not sure how these folks are holding on. If I wasn't leased, definitely wouldn't run out here in hopes of a spot market outbound. Pretty scary to say the least... Doesn't seem to be a slow down on availability for trucks

 

Went through there Wednesday morning about 0200, well that was north bound at about MM 300 on 17.

Snowing like 127 mofo's.

Two DUDES rolled it on the east side of Flagstaff on 40 about 20 miles east I'd guess on the westbound side of 40. Totally blocked.

That section for about 60 miles is just like Elk in WHY-OH-MING. And it was HOWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLING.

We were 78K so rolled on.

Weren't a whole lot of folks on 17 other than plows.

Right around MM 310 or so, highway just vanished. It was really freaking snowing.

 

I was supposed to load Audis up in the bay area, couldn't make it out of SoCal the Grapevine was closed.
Ended up loading Hertz rental cars out of San Diego. I thought I was safe running out I-8 and boy was I wrong. From 3500-4000 feet and above it was barely passable.

 

This was up on Hwy60 east of Showlow...

False advertising, as the trailer claims they are "Intelligent Transportation" LOL sure doesn’t appear to be.

 

Flagstaff tonight, 25 Feb .......

Tonight:
Snow showers, mainly after midnight.
The snow could be heavy at times.
Areas of blowing snow after 5am.
Low around 26.
Breezy, with a south wind 17 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Total nighttime snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.

Sunday:
Snow showers likely, mainly before 2pm.
The snow could be heavy at times.
Areas of blowing snow.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 30.
Breezy, with a southwest wind 17 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 70%.
New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

 

March 01, 2023, 1630mtn

Arizona I-40

Westbound is now a dead-end at Winslow