Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Iowa is going to be a disaster late tomorrow through Sunday morning. I’ll probably go another 200 miles or so this afternoon and stopnto wait it out until mid day Sunday when it moves out. They’re expecting heavy snow and 30+ mph winds north of Des Moines.

 

Getting backed in at the truck stop was a pain. This load is the similar to one I did a few months ago, it’s 4 drums of frozen material they use to make the air craft parts. It’s only 5k or so pounds. The 6x2 is perfectly fine when I have a load on. When I’m light like this, I can’t get traction. It took me forever to get backed in. I had a guy helping me out too. I’d have to back in really fast or I’d get stuck and I got all jacked up getting in the spot. I had to the Austin Powers go cart move to finally get in. I can’t wait for this crap to be over, winter sucks.

 

Holy crap. Check this out. CR England has 3 bunk trucks now, 1 trainer, 2 students.

C R England

 

35 is closed north of Des Moines at US 30 right now. I’m heading eas and North out of Dubuque to go around it. I had to park again because of winds. I’m going to sit a couple hours to let them ease off and roll the rest of the way.

 

By next winter I’ll have the XDN2s on here. That will be much better. The tires I have now don’t have any sipes or an open shoulder. Most super singles, but a few, are intended for Highway, dry and wet, anything else, you’ll have issues. Michelin XDN2 and the new version, XOne Grip D, Yokohama 902L, and the Goodyear SSD are the only high traction singles on the market. The Michelin and the Yokohama are the only two I’ll be running on the driven axle going forward.