Wyoming Slip and Slide - Lessons

Mounains of Utah , Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, in nice weather it is a crowd, winter sometimes the only one.

 

You Canadians are chuckling to yourselves at this thread, eh?

 

The reason I am off the road for a bit, to many wreck on dry days, then it snows and they blame it on the snow and Ice. Then the new trucks are all plastic which does not take abuse very well, sometimes those drifts need to be bashed, then you do and you leave a bit of truck behind.

 

Okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up...

 

@JC1971 had the correct answer. The pickup truck has a company DOT number displayed. That "RV" is either living quarters, office space, or tech support for an oil rig or fracking operation. A typical oil rig or frack site will have a dozen or more "RV's" of all sizes. Some might be command centers filled with more than a million dollars of computers and equipment. They all have to get there. Weather be ######. The fun begins when you get off the big nice freeway and start the twenty miles of dirt road with no snow plows.

 

I didn’t watch all 21 minutes, but I’m amazed at how they’re all running in the same 4 packed tire tracks. Get in the crunchy snow and have better traction.

 

Absolutely right.

However, in this scenario the best play is to stay in the right lane, MAYBE sneak over the fog line to use the "Cheater Chains" on the right (the Rumble Strip adds traction). Notice when the dashcam driver loses traction in the final, uphill segment he tried to back into the Cheater Chains to the left of the fog line?

All in all, I think it's best to stay in the right lane in a scenario like this. The more traveled lane will be cleaner. Notice how often there's considerable patches of consolidated snow and ice in the hammer lane? Sometimes you are penalized getting into that hammer lane to pass a much slower truck. You have to drive "what the road gives you". That hammer lane can be really squirrelly at times.

In this video the camera driver started to pass and then on the uphill got slowed by the truck in front of him. It sounds like he might have missed a gear on the downshift, then come to a stop.

The thing that I am wondering is that it also sounds like a low air warning came on when he came to a stop in the hammer lane. If that's true, then he isn't going anywhere soon.

 

A couple things I noticed.

1. This is not a ScottieD67 joint.
2. All the tailgaters are on paper logs, you can just tell.(outlaws)
3. The smartest thing you can do in low visibility is tailgate.
4. The second smartest thing you can do is stop on ice.
5. If you can’t drive on Ice, move to Mississippi. It’s 74 degrees today.

 

Supertruckers.

 

Yeah I didn't give much thought to the frackers and such. Didn't even notice the Dot numbers on it.

The low air buzzer noise when he stopped could have been him locking the power divider in. I drove a Mack for a while that had a buzzer to remind you the power divider is locked. My current truck has full locking rears, and the buzzer to go with those as well