I 80 EB through WY closed?

Weight equals fuel, equals money x's number of trucks. My company only carries chains during chain season & I run heavyhaul out of the NW.

 

The storm came up from the south west, dumped some rain and a few inches in Colorado, then headed back west with a little cooler temps and dropped a few inches in the hills and is supposed to be done by 1600 Saturday. The only bump in Wyoming is elk mountain which makes its own weather. Then that grade from Laramie to Cheyenne can get interesting with black ice sometimes.

 

I always had 1 set of chains even in summer because sometimes I had to get into that clay mud and being stuck on a little pile of gunk sometimes was enough to give you a bad day.

 

Appalling as this may seem, I do take breaks every now and then.

 

That is what happens when people use GPS instead of looking at an atlas. Arlington is one of several cities between Dallas and Ft. Worth. It has 400,000 people. Anybody that has delivered to Dallas or Ft. Worth knows the difference between them. If given a choice,they'd pick Ft. Worth to pick up and deliver to.

Dallas is competing with Houston to be the new but hole of Texas.

 

everyone knows where Dallas is.

nobody knows where Ft Worth is

they make TV shows about Dallas

All the sports teams are named Dallas

 

I'm in Rawlins and about to head out. Wy511 shows all of 80 as clear. It's 48 degrees.

Black ice is often a problem west of Laramie. I'll doing it during the daylight but will often waiting out until daylight if it is too bad. I went through there a ago and it was closed because of the amount of wrecked trucks. There were seven or eight. It's good to know places other than the Pilot or Petro.

What gets me is all of the drivers that will keep heading east to Cheyenne and then head south to get to Denver instead of taking US 287 in Laramie.

 

It still doesn't change the fact the US 287 doesn't go anywhere near Dallas.

 

It's only about 15 miles further staying on 80 to Cheyenne and then south on 25, and it's actually faster than running 287 with all the lights in Ft Collins. Plus I'd much rather deal with the scale in Cheyenne than in Laramie if heading west.