Winter Blast on its way

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Walk Among Us, Jan 22, 2026.

  1. Concorde

    Concorde Road Train Member

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    It ain’t much better in Florida..sounds like tonight and tomorrow we’ll all be dead.

    Lol, I’m preheating my home right now, like an oven :)

    “Significant threat to life “

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  3. Long FLD

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    Get the heat off your windshield. Turn your floor heat up and crack a cab window to circulate the air. Blasting your defrost vents makes it stick worse.
     
  4. 86scotty

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    81 is probably no place to be today. I'm at the southern end of it and we've got 7 inches and still coming down hard.
     
  5. nextgentrucker

    nextgentrucker Road Train Member

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    Honestly, I'll take the wind than the Snow...

    Floor heat?

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  6. Long FLD

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    Yes. On your vent selector you should have the option of directing the airflow to the floor, versus the dash vents.
     
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  7. nextgentrucker

    nextgentrucker Road Train Member

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    Cool, I'll try it.
     
  8. D.Tibbitt

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    What did ur dispatch say about all that? Being that u made the right call and shut it down and the delivery wasnt even open like we all knew it was gonna be... I bet dispatch didnt even say sorry
     
  9. ESAFO

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    Slim to none chance of that happening under their watch, they would go out of their way to find something else to be little you on before they tucked their tail.
     
  10. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Lol ! That is so true
     
  11. 88228822

    88228822 Heavy Load Member

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    I drove right thru the first one from Chicago to Abilene and managed to miss the ice by driving west across IL and IA then south to KC (city limits were a bit of a mess) and thru OKC (another mess) via KS and ran into some rough sledding into thru and out of Abilene (ended up in El Paso and got from OKC to Abilene via Lawton and Wichita Falls). Hard to remember the whole trip but I think it was fairly rough from Wichita Falls to Abilene.

    Now I'm leaving IA not too far outside Omaha headed to New Jersey with a drop in WV will be interesting to see what happens.
     
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