Winter Driving

If chains are required I will find a place to take a nap

When fresh, and conditions improve, I usually catch and pass all the stressed out drivers that wasted time chaining up and driving 10mph.

 

A lot of variations as to the "where" they give you to chain up. I am not aware of any recent fatalities in a chain-up pull-off......but there may be. I feel that there are much more dangerous things we do routinely; and have not had any close calls personally. Been doing this since '92, and have run chains at least a few times every winter. Just my .02 worth!!

 

I doubt that. I think any remarks to the effect that people who chain are better drivers than those who won't are aimed at those that are just too lazy to do it or make all kinds of excuses not to when, in fact, it's because they don't know how and don't WANT to know how. A case in point, years ago, when I was managing a grain elevator I had a commercial truck come for load of grain. There was some fresh wet snow that morning and this jackwagon spun out coming up the driveway into the elevator. He spent the better part of 3 hours screwing around and got his trailers (super B's) all accordianed and when I went out and suggested that he throw on a set of chains (he had them hanging on the truck) he gave me a dirty look and said something to the effect that "I'm not putting no F*****ng chains on". He stayed there until a farmer with a loaded tandem came and pulled him into the driveway. On another occation I had an O/O come for a load of grain, similar circumstances, and he didn't even try it, he just stopped, threw on a set of chains and drove into the elevator and unchained while he was being loaded. Total cost in time, 10 minutes.My dad hauled logs on the west coast for 35 years and often had to chain up several times a day and do this for weeks. You just do what you need to do to get the job done and sometimes, that means a little manual labour.
BTW, I've never heard of anyone getting killed while chaining up.

 

No more chains. Use autosock takes 20 sec to install. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=WtBzXVbE3Rc&v=WtBzXVbE3Rc&gl=US

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If its bad enough to chain, it's bad enough to get off the road. My kids would like to see me again, it's just not worth it.

 

OK, I'm going to assume that this comment was directed at me since my post is the only one between 2 of yours so please explain what part of my post is not 'civil'. Seriously, I've re-read it a few times and don't see anything that could be taken as offensive?????