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  1. biker dave

    biker dave Medium Load Member

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  3. Nakmuay

    Nakmuay Heavy Load Member

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    Don't after your phase 1 are u going to opt out and lease 9 days into your phase 2? And after your phase 2 is complete u go back to school take a couple more test and a class so u can be a phase 2 trainer better figure out if u will be company or a lease man for crengland

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  4. Kevin83165

    Kevin83165 Light Load Member

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    A lot of nice people here on this forum.

    I can recall driving there were a lot of nice people, but there were also a lot of yay hoos too, rude disrespectful. It got to the point where I ended up turning my radio off half the time. But one thing I learned, you break down and it won't be too long before another hand will come by and offer to help in one way or another, and this thread reflected just that.

    When I trained in 1990 it was in the middle of winter and I never saw a flake of snow. Mostly L.A. loads. After my 30 days my trainer took me back to SLC where I got my own truck, (a real pos ford) and my first load to Seattle. So I get up to north Idaho (I think it was called 4th of july?) going down grade in the middle of night in a snow storm my low pressure gauge came on, I lost air pressure. Talking about one scared sob. Here I am fresh out of school.

    I pulled over in time my spring brakes popped on and I skidded to a stop. It was like ten below and eventually an old hand stopped to help, my emergency line had froze and broken. He suggested I drop my trailer and bobtail and the next day get a new air hose,,, which I did. When I came back the next day all fixed up, the snow plows had come through and buried my trailer, I could not get back under it.

    After getting that straight, I ended up in more mountains in WA and had to chain up twice, lol I didn't even know how to put a chain on. THis was all on my very first trip out.
     
  5. sweetdaddy915

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    4th of july pass is on I-90 can't remember if its on wash/id line or mont/id

    Anyway I went thru ther my 1st. Winter wasn't too bad scared as poop

    Trip was in late january/feb snow storm few days before trip went from

    Mariemont,oh to kent,wa keebler p/u is by cincinatti,oh del. Was by seattle

    Had bad starter once I got above chicago,il it dropped to double digit below zero stayed

    That way until I got close too north bend,wa. Didnt shut truck off the hole time

    went thru fargo,nd Got up -26 below no wind no clouds beautiful

    Got too bozeman,mt was -49 below with the windchill I putted along

    On the trip cause I wanted too miss the storm
     
  6. Kevin83165

    Kevin83165 Light Load Member

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    Before someone tells me thats what I get for going down the 4th in a snowstorm:biggrin_25523:

    I always recall hearing people brag "If chains are required then I just pull over". I even heard that recently on the bus at England.

    Yes, in the perfect scenario thats all good, but I just wonder how many here have had incidents where your driving through the pass and all is well, no snow forecasted et. Then all of a sudden it starts to snow, and it gets worse and worse then the next thing you know in an hour chain laws go in effect, your butt is stuck, you either pull over and put the chains on to keep going or you sit on the median and eat out of that jar of peanut butter you forgot you had for 3 days :biggrin_25522:
     
  7. Injun

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    Actually, Fourth of July is neither. It's at about mm28 in the panhandle of Idaho between Coeur d'Alene and Kellogg. Lookout Pass is at the Montana/Idaho line. There is no pass at Idaho/Washington. The one just east of Seattle area is Snoqualmie Pass.

    Those are definitely challenges for a brand new driver. However, great fun is to be had if going between Yakima and southwest Washington on Hwy12. White Pass.

    The Rockies might be high mountains with plenty of ice and snow between September and ...oh, say....June. But the Cascades are rugged with the NorthWest's unpredictable weather.
     
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  8. hrtbr8kr

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    i feel your pain. when i first got into a truck, my first full run was from philly to portland, or. winter of course. get to portland just fine, passed mt hood (the day the 5 ppl were stranded up there). waiting in portland for a day for the nxt load, it was dec and 72 degrees out, wth lol. but it was nice. well, we headed out. i was on shift, and was headed out. what i didnt know as i was coming into backed up traffic and huge snow storm, was that i was comin up to cabbage pass. ive done the east coast stuff and hills, but this was my first mnt lol. i was white knuckled, and having to be in 5th gear sometimes 4th. dark out, couldnt see the rd with all the snow, i had light loaders passing throwin up snow, my trainer refused to get up and help, cre said no chains, i was a wreck haha...i finally made it out and hit MT and pulled over to pull the seat out of my butt lol and watch the most beautiful norther lightsi had ever seen!!!! and of course the trainer get s up then to video tape it lol, i waas like...really, now....ugh. after that i had no issues with mnts until i had to train others with them lol.
     
  9. sweetdaddy915

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    Had a trip this summer/fall deadhead from yakima walmart d.c

    P/U Lewiston,ID to Rancho Caucamonga,CA.

    P/u @ temple inland paper rolls almost 46,000 lbs.

    Going 2 p/u was great coming back down to I-84 east into idaho

    Was a pain in the butt the hole trip U.S. highways

    Had too cut across nevada into cali down south way south of lake tahoe

    Think it was NV-266 boy that was a doosy too was down

    Was going across oregon east an south east over by jordan valley

    Down too winnemeucca then 80 west an cut down think it was u.s. 95

    And then down in the desert by 20 mile beach or something like that

    Was a hell of trip too say the lest.
     
  10. sweetdaddy915

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    I have driven alot east of I-55 w.virginia an pennsylvania oh my god 8 % grad

    Curvy ### roads. been across 70 a few times never nothing too bad

    Done .. 90 cleveland to buffalo in an around a few storms

    Ny southern tier too stay off 90 a few times in the winter

    I had never seen snow like they get out in snowqualmie before

    That 1st. Trip I ever had up north from cinninati,oh area to kent,wa

    It went. I-94. North of chicago then picked back up to I-90 in montana was unreal then when I

    left kent a few days later they Had another 4 ft. Of snow
     
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  11. Injun

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    I love that drive south of Lewiston through Salmon River Canyon.that White Bird Grade going down into the canyon can be a lot of fun. Too bad I didn't know you were at the Grandview DC. Could have taken you to Garcia's for a great burrito.

    Up on Snoqualmie, when storms come through and they say they're expecting 4, they mean feet, not inches.

    Hrtbr8kr, I'll be heading west through the Blues and down Cabbage Hill in about an hour and a half. It was icy yesterday coming across and even though it's dry here today, you never know what you're going to get up there. What route did you take to get to Montana from there? You go up 15 in Idaho? Just curious.
     
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