Time for a reality check and a safety lesson. Whether you like it or not.

Following to close.

 

Good thread Joseph! Michigan has the skid pad available for CDL schools
to attend and they are trying to make it mandatory for Drivers Education.
All the maneuvers are done at 25 mph and you feel as if you are going to
slide off the course at that speed. If only every driver going for their Cdl
had to attend they would understand how much room is needed to stop
these vehicles, especially on wet pavement. Its unfortunate living near
94 because even when conditions are ideal we still get nasty wrecks and
its always speed to fast.

 

Pretty much exactly what I said in the thread just before yours LOL

 

This is a bi polor website! One thread speed kills, another if your slow move out of the way! Us non restricted trucls gotplaces to be!

 

They were going waaaay too fast. When I hit the solid ice near Abilene, I stuck to doing 15-20 mph and even that felt too fast.

I saw guys fly by me and nearly wipe out when traffic suddenly came to a stop. I just slowly coasted to a stop, applying little brake pressure and steering to compensate for my swinging tractor rear end.

I don't give a flying flip if the load is late, I'm not taking a risk. I have zero weather related accidents in my career and I intend to keep it that way.

 

When I can't see in those conditions, I'm stopping.

At that point it becomes less of an issue of what I'm going to run into, but who is going to run into me after I safely stop.

 

Not true bonobos and dolphins also have sex for pleasure. Had those drivers actually stopped and been with the girl instead of daydreaming about it they wouldn't have been there and would have avoided the whole deal. Sex saves lives.