Wind? Please take warnings seeriously...

I hit those winds going 80 thru Wyoming then up thru central from rock springs. Lost a tarp somewhere along the way. Wind grabbed it and stopped to grab it but only to see it sail across the rockies.

 

Now IM nervous.....what recall??.lol

 

Truckers need to stick together. If a company calls you up looking for a driver to take the load, chances are their driver has already refused to take it. If you drive that load you are hurting the trucker more than any Fed. Reg.

 

I drove school bus for 3 years, the class B drivers stand up for each other. Haven't seen that in my trucking career yet. Just a bunch of guys that will drive no matter what.

 

And maybe you would be taking a load the other driver simply did not have the hours for.
How is that hurting anyone?


And what has your comment to do with wind warnings?
That WAS the OP subject, by the way.

From 5 years ago.

 

What is there to 'stick up for' out here?
We are assigned loads and run them. I have no interaction with other drivers.

Maybe you should start a thread with a true subject line and an explanation of what you are so unhappy about.

 

Trucking has a great deal of trip planning which includes everything. Weather is first up.

If NOAA has wind warnings for a given area you will be in today, guess what? You are going to route around or you are going to sit for a while until those winds die down. Contrariwise you will become world famous on the Weather Channel as your 18 wheeler flops over in the wind you should have been aware of before you got there.

I use CBBT Standards for wind versus load weight. If CBBT requires 45000 in the box at 50 mph+ then if I am not carrying that much in the trailer I am absolutely parking it. The dispatchers can scream until they are blue in the face. But last I checked I am captain of the ship and am responsible to keep that whole thing including people around me safe. They can even fire me. But I will NOT be the one flopping over in that wind if I can help it.

Trucking does not alays feature people who hae the ability to enjoy a level of intelligence. If Washington DC was leveled by a series of Megaton Nuclear Bombs properly turned to ash and rubble with skeletons glowing blue in the night from radiating Im pretty sure there is at least one trucker heading straight there because he has a load that is due in the morning. When there isnt anything left to deliver to.

 

Why do we bump old threads that should be archived?

 

It's pretty simple, any road out there that is closed to light high profile vehicles, meaning less than 30000 in the box, those trucks better get off the road.

With an empty trailer or light load any winds over 40+ I get off the road. Heavier meaning in the upper 30's or more in the trailer any winds over 55+ I am done. This varies some in Wyoming of course because of the ice and wind combination.( where you easily become and ice sailboat) I see and hear drivers all the time out there running across Wyoming in 50 to 60+ mph winds empty. It's just too dangerous. And you cant always trust the digital.signs out there. One sign said 30mph winds ahead. A few miles down the road I encountered 60+ winds and had to get off the road

A good tool of reference I use is the following site to keep up with the windspeeds.

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