Where Are You Continues, Again.....

Too bad you don't like good food....GC's restaurant is usually decent food. Especially breakfast!

 

Tell me about it... crusty bones, aching body... brought my elastic and a couple of sand bags to exercise some in the truck.... Cause I noticed recently that I lost a lot of muscle strength... And will walk around this huge parking lot tomorrow... gotta move this body, the joints and all...

 

What do you mean I don't like "good food"...? All that I like is good food... But seems most of what they have is meat... chicken, pork, fish or whatever... but it's all meat... No rice, no beans, no cooked vegetables... Oh yeah.. veggies... they may have lettuce and tomatoes...

 

I live in the snow belt in western NY. So unless its really really bad, I'll run in it day or night. When its bad, the roads are usually pretty free of traffic. Then I can move. The bad drivers are out of my way. In the ditch or median. The smart drivers that know they don't enjoy the snow, stay in the truck stop,Now the road is pretty free of traffic. That's when I can make up time. Weird logic, I know. Does work though.lol

 

I do the same. Put on my vest and stick out like Hillary at a tell the truth convention and walk about an hour.

 

Frozen is best time to drive...Keep ya foot on the fuel , don't touch the brake and a light finger on the steering !

 

You folks were born and raised in cold places that have snow and ice every year...

I was born and raised in Brasil.... tropical country... First time in my life that I HAD to drive on snow was when I was solo 6 months after I started driving a big truck... Never got any training... All I knew I learned in this forum and from other drivers... Ohhhh.... talk about being totally nervous and scared...
But so far, THANK GOD, I haven't had any accident... had some scary, very SCARY moments... some lasted for hrs, driving on snow packed roads, very narrow roads, with patches of ice... one time I thought was going to jackknife.... good thing there was NOBODY next to me... only one truck coming my way... but far away... he saw me "dancing" all over the 2 lane road and slowed down... I was able to re-gain control of the truck and by the time we passed each other, all was OK again, and I could smile and wave at him.... and he smiled and waived at me.... WHAT A RELIEVE...
Another time, I drove for 2:30 hrs at 35 mph with flashers on cause I was empty and the 2 way narrow road was covered with more frozen packed snow... and so many times I felt as if the trailer was pulling me to the edges of the road and I was going to roll over... I was followed by a huge line of cars... I don't care what they were thinking about me... But nobody tried to pass me anyway...
And one other time, it started snowing at night... I drove for 2 hrs on a road, so covered with frozen packed snow... and piles of snow on both sides... couldn't see anything else... just the narrow road and the piles of snow on both sides... Nobody else... just me... That felt like an eternity.... Holding the steering wheel so hard that probably left finger prints on it...
I HATE HATE HATE HATE SNOW!!
If I could, I would park the truck for the winter.... every year... and go to a warm place...

 

Yeah.. right...

 

I fell asleep. Out like a light. I was born just outside of Binghamton, NY. Not necessarily the snow belt, but they get snow and lots of cold air. I give you many props for being from a tropical environment and being brave enough to attempt driving winters. More than I can say for some. Last year at my house we got a lot of snow. The most I have seen since 1977. Most places got 7 feet in 36 hours. We got hammered. I couldn't keep up with it. I was up almost 3 days straight. Could not leave my house. Roads were closed everywhere. I just happened to be home on my time off when it started. Absolutely brutal. Plowed every hour on the hour for 3 days. I never want to go thru that again. That pushed us all to our limits. I was home a week. My truck was buried up to the door Handel's. Freakish amounts of snow. The wall of snow when I opened the truck door took me hours to shovel away. Almost a whole day to shovel the tractor out. One more winter like that, were moving to Brazil. Lol

 

I would never live in a place like that... My tolerance to cold is less than zero... I used to live in Atlanta, GA... It never snowed really hard there... and whenever there was some snow on the streets, I would not drive the car...
Last winter, I was in the truck till February... and then I went to Brasil to see my dad - he had surgery - and to solve some problems with a house we own there... Came back in May... This winter I'll bite the bullet again... Can't wait for spring to come...

Hey... it's past midnight central time... I have been up for over 25 hrs... going to bed now... You all have a restful, nice and safe night...