Who's the worst traffic wise in your opinion?

I’m paid hourly so the second wet stuff falls I’m going 20 under the speed limit with my flashers on.
Gotta milk those overtime hours.

 

The thing about winter operation I've learned is it's all different.
Type of snow, type of roadbed, traffic volume etc dictate my speeds.
And experience is the only teacher that allows you to recognize it before it's too late.
I sometimes get exasperated with younger drivers but try to remember I tiptoed at one time too.
And remember you can only go too fast one time.
I forgot the number but once you exceed that angle of jack knife you cannot and will not recover.
After 51 winters I was supposed to be done by now, retired without an accident. But a miscalculation on HSA contributions and Medicare rules has me still working. Already had 4 or 5 storms or snow events.
Can't wad one up at this point.
I actually like snow driving but now they close the roads up north and am forced to run backroads.
Just remember to drive safe enough to tell the tale.

 

Down in Tejas we don’t get the snow. We get the ice. Bad ice. So we just parked those days. So even tho i’ve been driving trucks for over 40 years i’d be one of those jabronis. Lol.

 

Of course. But everyone's "in control" speed is different. I've been behind 4 wheelers, and big trucks, where the roads were wet, snow on the yards and fields on either side of the road. Temp's in the 30's.
Speed limit is 55, we were chugging along at 45 MPH. And when you come to a small town, and the speed limit drops to 45, they drop to 35, when 45 was perfectly acceptable 2.6 seconds before. Out of town, back to 40-45.

Them people.

 

Any m’fer that speeds up in a passing lane just to slow back down after it no matter the weather needs his bag nailed to a stump then kicked backwards over said stump.

 

I need this quote on a tee shirt...

 

It makes for a long and not particularly pleasant day on the the road that’s for sure. And you don’t get anywhere nearly as quick as you should. And it seems like this time of year starting around the week of thanksgiving through December is even worse because it’s just a busy time of year with a lot of extra Jabronis and jamokes on the road. Throw some bad weather in on top of it and you really need a beer at the end of the day.

 

It gets interesting when the limiting factor to speed is *not* the speed limit like in dry clear conditions. There’s a fine line between not being a sissy-la-la and being a ####### who’s constantly on the verge of losing control on the truck. My saving grace is that I’m not a tailgater because I’ve had the trailer kick out on me a couple times after seeing a wall of brake lights and realizing the road was left a hockey rink for a couple hundred feet when the plow guy got lazy or realized he’d ran out of salt.

 

How about none? Last year through joplin during a snow storm, the interstate into ok was closed. I got off to spend the night at a tank wash. On the cb, there were drivers mocking other drivers for running with their 4 ways on. 4 ways tell the truck coming up from behind that your slow moving ( due to the ice) or even stopped. I know, it gets my attention. Also there were a lot of truck accidents that day due to yehoos slamming on the brakes because they were going too fast. I had a trainer tell me once " don't let the guy behind you, tell you how to drive your truck".