This is what happens when you don't SLOW DOWN in bad winter conditions

lol you're right it didn't have to get to this.
I'm surprised such a "super trucker extraordinaire" found the need to make a deal about silly picture comment and call it tasteless when really the only thing tasteless is placing judgement and then telling what others can and cannot say on an open forum.
To each their own.

 

The time to slow down is BEFORE you start to slip & slide. Once you realize ya ain't got no traction, it might be too late.

 

I agree but that's why I refereed to when it's hard to tell when there's ice on the road.
Specifically I recall a time I thought it was simply raining.. up ahead was freezing rain and hit ice on the road.
I was going 50 MPH in that "rain" with people blowing my doors off but 50 is wayyyy to fast for ice.
Once I saw people in ditches all around me and felt little slide bits I slowly slowed down.
That day the highway got shutdown for about 6 hours with me in it. On the CB they said there was a pile up on the bridge ahead. PA of course.

 

Lesseeee....

Outside air below freezing, shiny crap on road surface, no spray coming off yer tires. Hmmm, this is tough. Do I get a lifeline???



Oh yeah... must be ice!!!

 

thing is my temp was above freezing and saw spray on the tires by the people blowing past me.

 

I still remember my first winter driving big trucks. I hadn't seen the road since I left the house...just snow-packed...and I thought I was making pretty good time. I learned to drive in the snow, and play in it every chance I get and I figured I was moving at a pretty good clip when I got passed...by a large SUV...with Texas plates. Now I learned to drive during the winter in Chicago, in a little 2wd pickup with bald tires. My parents knew not to expect me home until every last road & parking lot were cleared and I had nowhere left to play. Anyway, if the SUV had WI or MN tags, I probable wouldn't have given them a second thought...but TX? Yeah, I'll see you again.

Wasn't 5 miles up the road, they were spun out and banged up after losing it on an overpass.

 

Hydroplaning on bad tires...

 

...but them steel belts you see poking through where the tread used to be, them's there for traction! Just like them chains y'all put on your tires in the mountains, just without having to get out in the cold...

 

It sure would be nice if this thread had as many facts as it has high horse judgements by people who weren't there.