Preference to drive, newbie, would rather be south out of snow?

Not if you are a SE or SW regional driver.

If you are an OTR driver, you drive where your company has freight.

 

Well you need to move to Key West. And run local.

I’ve been in Louisiana when New Orleans was under snow, and the 10 was shut down.

I’ve been in El Paso, where it snowed in March. Also Tucson that same year.

Driven Arkansas with 3 inches of ice on the road. Dallas also.

There isn’t a single state that doesn’t see snow and ice. Unless you want to do long haul. LA to Hawaii.

 

True indeed my thoughts exactly

 

You’ll be one of those old farts wiping out the grocery shelves after your first good ice storm lol

 

Yes..yes it is.

 

Yes, you are going where there is freight.

I managed a experiment one time staying on 10 one winter into spring where Pipe in Houston went to Jacksonville FLA and cable and chain back to Houston. Be that as it may it was just that a experiment. It actually turned into how many problems you can carry and fix in the field with the truck, ultimately back to the shop in the north you go.

I don't do mountains when I went to trucking school. Instructors picked up on that problem and focused on that in those days with no jacobs braking anywhere. Turned me into a mountain happy person. Am bored on the flat. Winter lessons came later that year where the GM Motors will get their auto glass loads several times a week regardless of how many feet of snow is in Big Sandy West Virginia. You will be there. Or they will fire you and find someone else.

If it's snow you hate, go to Sandiego or Miami and do local concrete ready mix or something, you will see snow even now and then there.

In the meantime that big rig rolls through any weather. If Yellowstone erupted leaving a foot of ash around your area, you will roll through that too. (If you were smart you would evacuate)

 

I prefer not to drive in snow, or rain, or wind, or traffic, or towards the sun at sunrise or sunset. I prefer to only drive during daylight. I prefer not driving in traffic. But the world doesn’t revolve around me. So I drive thru rain hailsleet or snow. Blizzards. Every major city at rush hour. Any time of the day or night. This is trucking, not a vacation. You are paid a decent wage to tolerate all of the not so comfortable situations you have to deal with. Learn to deal with these situations safely and they all become much easier over time. Keep on truckin

 

even I40 get tons of snow and icy maybe should run I10 I8 only or something lol

 

Buffalo with 12 inches of snow is 10 times better than Atlanta with a quarter inch