Snow and bridges?

Drive real fast (to get off it quicker) and make sure you try to change lanes as many times as possible. And if you have to brake do it really hard - stand on it: both feet, while, at the same time, turning your steering wheel.

Helpful?

 

I also try to take an extra drink of whiskey before I cross the bridge. You know, for good luck.

 

I buy a case or gallon of good drinking and make carousing the night before the storm, get it all out of the system. Then commit the soul to God because my ### belongs to that icy bridge and more to come. //half teasing.

You do not want anyone next to you on a bridge. Especially those that curve. AND those ESPECIALLY that lean to one side to slope towards the railing to the right or left. You do NOT want anyone getting between YOU, ESPECIALLY that #### trailer of yours and that railing. Use your body weight, throw it around and take over that lower side of that bridge.

Then walk her across. Literally idle in 1st. Ready to point tractor upslope when your trailer jackknifes to the lower railing.

Here in the south, in Mississippi, they might sand a bridge a foot thick. Get up there and get it moving. Straight. Do not stop for nothing Get across at torque with room to add more beef to the pulling rather than high RPM that will spin your drives.

Some bridges are giants. If they tell you they are closed. They mean closed. You do NOT want on it. I don't care if you are the Almighty.

Others as found on the interstate well... there are some that are pretty good for ice. As it will cake over and freeze to the point of not letting anyone over. Hopefully you got across before the temps got too much below 34. (Winds compress under bridge chilling the #### thing FAST to ice. You might be tooling along fat and happy at 34 degrees on pavement, hit the bridge and around you go. Maybe even go over.

One bridge at a time. IF you see a bridge chocked with accidents, piled cars and trucks etc, Don't get on there and add to the problem. Wait a while.

Get weather forecasting before you move that truck a inch for the workday. Your route you thought would be good at breakfast will be hell to pay by lunch.

 

Coasting. Is. Your. Friend.

Remember that mantra ANY time you get squirrelly.

Ease off on the throttle. Don't get all the way off the throttle. EASE off the throttle.

Bridges DO ice up earlier than the rest of the road, but no need to get all truck stop story over it. Just carry on.

 

What Lepton1 said. Also, watch for those changes in pavement type before and after the bridge. Kind of a bump in the road where the surfaces are joined. Don't be getting onto the throttle when you bounce across those. As long as you are aware that you need to be more careful about bridges and you ease up slightly on the throttle as you make your way along you should be fine.

 

No cruise control.
Went through Thunder Bay one morning just around the freezing point. Every bridge had at least one car spun off into the ditch just after it.

 

Float the bridges. If your going downhill brake before the bridge to slow down then take foot off the brakes and float across the bridge. Basically don't make any sudden changes to brakes or power on snow or ice bridge.

If your going uphill turn on the power divider before your tires are spinning, if going downhill turn it off. Add a little power and pull the trailer across the bridge. Don't let it push you across the bridge.

Always pull the trailer because it will always want to go straight.

 

Slow down.

 

Turn the engine brake off,,