Wind and "white knucklin"! Pull over or keep moving?

YEP. it'll wear a driver out.
But I for one will take the west side of the Mississippi over the east anyday.
8-9 hrs in east coast traffic wears a driver out both physically and mentally
The wind won't cut you off, it won't try to drive and text at the sametime, it won't tie up traffic in a constuction zone by waiting till the very last minute to merge. Yes these things do happen all over but more space between major cities gives a driver time to get over it, and calm down a bit.
For the most part my point is the wind is the wind, but it beats dealin with 4 wheelers all day.

 

This may be a stupid question but when your going down the road how do you know when the DOT shuts the road down?

Do they put up road blocks?
Hear about it on the Radio?
Hear about it on the CB?

I know when I lived in Vermont they would shut the roads down sometimes when the DOT couldn't plow the snow as fast as it was coming down, and the only way we would know is by watching the news. And there was never anyone out there trying to stop me from driving in it, I did it many times (Subaru's Rule) lol


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This is what happened to me in Kansas two years ago. Absolutely no warning,side wind came out of nowhere. The people that were behind me came up to the cab to see if I was ok, they were hanging on to the hood just to stay standing.
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Was that listed as preventable ? Glad you're ok.

 

I'm not one for half ### doing anything. Being under a load means I have a job to do. Nothing super trucker about me. I roll in all conditions other than tornado's, hurricains, and closed roads. The danger really isn't any different than driving through some city like Houston with a bunch of dumb ### 4 wheeler operator's doing 90+ mph everywhere they go.

 

Depends on the company. I know someone that lost their job when it happened to them.

 

It was listed as non preventable. There was a cop I passed 2 miles before this happened & he was watching for seat belt use
(yup mine was on). And the people behind me vouched for me. The police man told me that at this exact spot I was the third truck to get blown over here in the last 3 years!

 

That look's almost like an ex Rohel truck.

 

Maybe, but it wasn't, it's a Canadian truck

 

In my business of pulling shacks, in most states we have to shut down in wind exceeding 25 m.p.h. Sometimes you get caught out west where there is no place to shut down safely. All you can do is slow down and hope for the best. I've had gusts of wind hit me in the side and blow the back of the trailer to the left shoulder while the truck was on the right shoulder. Many guys have lost trailers in this way, I've been lucky so far.