New Driver needs help..Is Winter really that bad?

You tell 'em Richter!! Those darn newbie hijackers blairandgretchen trying to side-shift driver responsibility!!!
What do they know?? They've only been teaming for 10 years!!! /sarcasm

Simple oversight,, but definitely a "gotcha".

 

What better time to learn then Winter.You'll be with a trainer during the worst part of Winter.Go solo sometime in Febuary,shoot nice weather is just around the corner by the time you get qualified.

 

and hopefully you will have a smart trainer who doesn't hide in the bunk the whole time and also teaches correctly and intelligently.

 

Hey! You're talking about my first trainer, aren't you?

 

That was my first trainer.Don't know why company allowed him to train.He had this condition that couldn't be helped.He slept a lot.Learned most on my own.Waking him up was pretty much impossible.

 

Couldn't agree more. When I'm driving in winter conditions I don't worry about who or what is behind me. My only concern is who or what is in front of me and keeping a safe distance between us.

 

Patty, we had the same trainer!

 

Well put HotH2O, very well put!

 

Lol re reading it I get ya...by next post he means the driver is going to get in an accident and will be asking that. Still not very nice.

 

You could always employ the 'Fairwearthered Truck Driver Strategy'. Here's what you do:

On your pre trips, add the weather in to your planning. Where are you going to be when the weather strikes. Right before it hits, you hunker down and take cover in a truck stop, and allow it to blow over. Simple enough, right? For the most part, you will almost always be okay.

Thing is, my hope would be that as a driver, you would want to be more than just a steeringwheelholder. The good experienced driver learns that finesse, that easy touch on the wheel, the buttery soft touch on the throttle that allows us to navigate through the worst roads while everyone else slides off. Driving extremely slow down the highway is NOT being safe. Choosing to park it IS being safe. Do not be one of those people who confuse safety with stupidity.

"How does one confuse safety with stupidity?

EXAMPLES
Driving in a cluster in bad weather. Cars do it all the time. Steeringwheelholders do it in bad weather. SPREAD OUT!!!!!!!!!!! Those trucks coming by you idiots that you're hoping to see off the road are almost never the ones off road, it will be one of you idiots that is running in a cluster that will go off the road with another truck.

Running extremely slow. If there's no one in front of you for miles on end and a line of traffic behind you for miles on end, guess what? "But I am being safe!" No, you're just stupid. The first hill, the first icy banked bridge, you're not going to have the momentum needed to avoid sliding or getting stuck. And your that truck that's dragracing the snowplow. If you really wanted to be safe, you would have chosen to stay in the parking lot.

Running with your CB off in the winter storm. "I don't need the CB, I have a weather and traffic AP on my phone." (Sigh)