Logging during a snow storm

please...please.....call me DICK.

"encounters"...from webster:
: to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly <encounter difficulties>
intransitive verb
: to meet especially by chance

sorry, buddy, but you don't run into a severe snow storm 'by chance'. If you dont know there is adverse weather (i.e. snow storm with watches and warnings issued by the national weather service and reported by the weather channel a day and a half in advance) 300-500 miles down the road, then my friend, you dont need to be on the road.

but regardless, you are not given an additional 2 hrs....you are given a MAX of 2 hrs to FIND SAFE HAVEN.....even if that haven is a wal-mart 5 mi down the road.

i rest my case.

 

and an officer of the law isnt going to stand on your running board asking for your drivers license, medical card, BOLs and your log book, then advise you to get off the road when its blowing 55 mph and there is already 2-3 in. of fresh snow on the ground. the most s/he's going to tell ya, is to "get the F off the road....NOW".....then get back in their nice warm and toasty cruiser.

 

Great information to know when the time comes, thanks everyone.

 

i've read this a few times, and please tell me if i'm wrong here, but you're saying that the driver bears no responsibility for knowing the weather down the road if the dispatcher sends the driver on said load without telling the driver "oh by the way, its snowing in denver"....??? please tell me i'm reading this wrong.

if i'm not....then you'd be saying that commercial airline pilots dont need to know the weather in SFO if they're taking off from JFK? or the weather en route? that if they encounter a massive supercell that towers 50k ft into the sky, they should fly right thru it because the person in company operations in dallas or chicago didnt tell the captain that he might want to fly around it?? WTF???? please tell me i'm reading this wrong......

 

whats an extra 2 hrs if you're fightin' like heII to go 5 mph, and stay on the road?

 

Your definition from websters proves my point nicely~thanks. Mr Jones just because the radio says its snowing in WY is no reason to pull into a T/S and go to bed. It can snow in WY when the sun shines. Are you going to stop every time the radio tells ya its snowing? If thats how you plan your trip perhaps you should stay south.

 

i'm not saying that you have to park the truck 100 miles away, but my definition dont prove anything for you, sorry. it does prove that you cannot extend your clock by 2 hrs to get to 'safe haven' because a driver encounters adverse weather. its really plain and simple.....you drive till you feel its unsafe, and you pull off. but you have to do it within your alloted 11 and 14....no bonus time for ya. but you can do what you want, as i'm sure we all will. I know i'm reading the law the correct way, and that is all that matters.......i'm done with this thread.

 

You never know what a storm is going to do and how the road crews are going to handle it. Since when is CB information reliable? I've heard everything from bear reports, DOT checks, wrecks, highway closures, etc, that didn't exist. The bottom line is a storm is an adverse condition. Road conditions can improve or get worse quickly.
I think alot of these rules are written to confuse drivers. When half of them tell you to refer to this rule, refer to this paragraph, except when...go to this rule.

Then there are rules written in general with no explanation or limitations and can be interpreted five different ways by the one reading it. The emergency rule is another one. What determines an emergency? Having to pull over 20 times for the squirts or getting to a sick family member could be determined an emergency by the driver and the DOT man might not think so.

 

Post a link for proof you can't extend your driving time by 2 hrs. or its just your opinion. For opinions see below. VVVVVVVVVV

 

If you're driving along and 50 cars pile up in front of your truck (you've just encountered an adverse condition that couldn't have been foreseen by dispatch or the weather channel) and you're at 10 hours driving at that point and the truck stop is 45 miles away-- it takes them 2.25 hours to clear a path for you, you may proceed legally up to the 13th hour to get to that truck stop.