Please let me know if this was dangerous or not...

At about the 12 second mark I would have slowed to match the speed of the car in the hammer lane, as it slowed to merge into the travel lane. Just my two cents.

 

If you are passing literally everyone on the freeway, you are going too fast for conditions.
And by conditions I mean traffic, along with temperature and snowfall.

 

Looks reasonable enough to me.... you can’t tell if he was dragging the brakes or off the throttle when approaching that car......I would of been .


P.S. the worst thing you can do is follow the conga line.......

 

If everyone else does something will you ?


Visibility wasn’t a issue... if it was dry arctic powder 40mph is nothing......

 

And yet I've been on roads that looks like that but were slicker than snot. From the video it's impossible to tell how bad the roads were. All I'm saying is that while we were not there, we also can tell that he was passing literally everyone. Maybe the roads were ok and everyone but the truck driver was running "too slow" as if that's a possibility. Maybe he was going too fast for conditions. The fact he didn't back out of it when the car changed lanes tells me what kind of driver he is...

 

Looked safe enough to me.
Any slower and he may as well creep in the r lane.
At 80K the worry isn't how slippery the roadbed is but how stupid the other motorists are.
That being said the age old adage of only traveling as fast as you can stop comes into play when one of the dimwits moves into your space, could you stop before he gets up to speed.

 

The greatest hazard was at about the 20 second mark. Not only was following distance getting way too close, it was happening at the most dangerous time driving in these conditions: changing lanes.

Changing lanes is when traction and resistance to thicker snow outside the cleared out ruts can cause a driver to lose control, especially the resistance against built up snow between the ruts. That's why I would have owed to match speed and distance to that car around 12 seconds into it. There's very little to gain by running right up on that car and much to lose.

 

Because everyone else is smarter than me.

 

Hard to tell, you can't see if the road is slick, if it's not he's doing just fine, and since there's no cars sitting in the ditch in guessing it's not slick.