What if it Snows?

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  1. D.Tibbitt

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    Well ill be heading on i90 thru the great state of wyoming tmrw. I havent been thru those parts this winter but it looks like im in for an adventure the way u guys been describing it
     
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    For u wyoming veterans, does the conditions get as bad on 90 as they do on 80, i always thought 90 wasnt to bad thru wyoming , cept last time i go thru there the wind snapped a #### ton of my bungees off on a load of lumber.. Wydot website shows some light snow overnight on 90 but all the wind restrictions is on 80 and south
     
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    My experience has been 90 tends to be less windy.

    And 90 does not do the thaw then refreeze thing that makes 80 such a joy.

    And less traffic density.
     
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    Hey... did you see the Portuguese subtitles...? Interesting...
    I wonder where they are from... without any search I would say Norway maybe... the audience doesn't seem to be American either...
    The lady looks like Morticia Adams... Her singing reminded me of a great Progressive Rock band singer from the 70's Annie Haslan from Renascence...

     
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    Thanks , i never have liked 80 even during the summer . but i dont run up thru wyoming much so it will be an adventure i can already tell
     
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    One thing to be aware of up there is Montana still has split speed limits. Less bad than before but still an issue with the entitled 4 wheelers.

    The locals just couldn't seem to get a clue that I was not going to run 80MPH.

    New Montana law will raise truck speed limits
     
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    It is finally snowing in iowa . it had been halfway snowing/raining from basically la selle, il and i made it all the way to center point iowa, about 150 miles in that 30 degree rain/snow crap . was freezing on windshield but wasnt sticking to the road
     
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    Yeah i run montana a lot with this company since thats where they located. The split speed limit man i swear that stuff makes it more unsafe . just like cali with their stupid 55mph while every 4 wheeler is doing 90 , im not sure why they think it is more safe to have split limits like that
     
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    I once was teaming with a guy on my first 6 months... he drove to a shipper at night... that was a drop and hook and pick up a preloaded... He did all that... I came out of sleeper, he gave me the papers, I entered the info in the Qualcomm and we took off... 3 or so hrs later on our way to the receiver, I checked the papers again and realized we had the wrong loaded trailer... :biggrin_2555:Oooops.... :biggrin_2552: Immediately called dispatcher... After checking all the info dsp saw that was one of their loads as well... it was going to a different city but still in the same direction and we didn't have to go back... we were darn lucky that time...