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

The state gets shut down when the first snowflake falls......

 

Back when i used to drive. I drove through a bad storm one night on the way home. kind of freaked me out when i got home and saw on the news. I had drove through hurrican HUGO. in the mtns. of n.c.

 

I'll be darned! When did they move Laramie and Sherman to Nebraska? (just couldn't resist)

If in doubt, s l o w down! There are a lot of factors with wind. When I was with Knight, they lost at least a half dozen trucks in one winter, between Denver and Cheyenne due to wind, and driving to fast for conditions.

I got blown off the road myself here in Utah a few years before retiring. I was driving a single screw, pulling an empty pup. I was only doing 45 MPH because of the gusty wind. It was too fast for conditions. I hit a patch of ice, just as a gust of wind broadsided my truck. Bye Bye! I did regain enough control to hit the barrow ditch relatively straight, and plowed right through it, instead of turning over.

Outside of the injury received when my rectum slammed shut, I wasn't hurt, but it gave me a "preventable" and three days beach time. . .

No body's fault but mine.

 

They will have portable signs(sig alerts) that all trucks must use next exit. The CHP officer will be at the end of the ramp and he will send you back in the direction you came from or a lot of guys will park on the shoulder and wait it out. Trucks will be doubled parked everywhere in Castaic, CA when the NB grapevine gets shut down for wind, snow or wildfires.

 

I'll be darned! When did they move Laramie and Sherman to Nebraska? (just couldn't resist)

oops my mistake, both are located in Wyoming, did'nt realize which state I referenced

I'm sure quite a few people got a laugh over it.

 

By the way I moved both Larimie and Sherman back to Wyoming...LOL

 

u could be sitting at a redlight and get hit by an asteroid and get charged with a preventable at my company