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

About the Swift driver. Does he have any idea how lucky he is? The chances of that happening again are fantastic!!!!! Man I wish that would happen to me, I'd never have to worry about that happening again!!!!!!!

 

I could see good enough at 25ish mph. Much safer than stopping.

4 wheelers were stopping before it even got anywhere near bad enough to go that slow.


Now, i can understand the MOTORCYCLES that pulled over and the bikers hid under trees...But really, they shoulda known better

 

maybe it was foggy and he didnt see it cause the trailer is white? heh.

was the driver charged?

 

No thanks.... Saw it live on the Narrows Bridge (Gig Harbor, WA) a couple years back. I was 3 lengths behind him at 40 in a Chevy workvan. Really don't like seeing air under the tandems....

 

Yeah the wind here in Mississippi was crazy on Sat. That Tornado reached a width of 1.75 miles and had a path that was 149 miles long and missed my house by a quarter of a mile. I will never forget what the sky looked like.

 

Good. Then our day was not an ENTIRE waste, was it!

Yep, and just think of all the "bragging rights" he now has over the CB and at the truck stops. Not to mention the story to tell to his grandkids, should there be any!

Glad you dogged that bullet, Bulldog. My wife's family farm in Wisconsin wasn't so lucky back in the sixties. They lost everything, except their lives. . .

 

having been blown over, it's a judgement call. I get real nervous in the wind, my blow over was in '98 and I still get nervous. I've learned to move on, but the judgement to stop is yours, I've turned around and headed back because of it.

Used to have a co-worker, got his CDL shortly after Christ was born, he and I were runnin' up I-76. I had a 45' x 102 empty pig and he had an empty 40' container on 3-axle chassis. The wind blew a Covenant truck that was ahead of me in the left lane on to the right shoulder and then over. We decided it was time to stop, we hit the bottom of an off ramp, parked against the elevated part of the road for more than 3 hrs, even then my trailer was still moved around a few times.

If you really want to play in the wind, Bordeaux Road, anyone who's run Wyo. knows what I'm talking about.