notarps4me
Shy and Quiet.
I am on my best behaviour and you want me riding on the back porch... just wait till I act up...lol
Winter Driving
- Thread starter Mr Roper
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It's too cold for me to ride back there. You have a built-on blanket.
I'm north of Oklahoma City right now, on my way to Brownwood. Is it still really that bad there? I was gonna skip the OK toll roads and just take the extra mileage down into DFW. Might rethink that now.
Yep. No computer program is going to tell you what to do when you get stuck behind a four wheeler at a red light on a hill, and when you go to take off the only direction you are going is backwards and there is traffic behind you.
First time I ever chained was in Texas, sometime around 2000. They had an ice storm that shut all the interstates down north of San Antonio and east of Midland. Most of Oklahoma and Louisiana, too. I was in Fort Worth with a final drop in Austin, and if I didn't get it made I was sitting for the weekend. So I got out my cables and went to work, and ran two lane down overnight. It was so slick you could barely stay on your feet, but it was no big deal with iron.
From the GF told me of her trip to work today, the dark pavement isn't too bad, but all the lighter color stuff is still potholed ice. That's from the racetrack to DFW on 114.
That's OK i didn't want to see no tarps naked
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
Sometimes in snow, since I know the spots where other vehicles have waited with warm tires for a red light will be icy, and since I anticipate a stopping point well behind the point I really intend to stop (to allow for sliding) I just get it down into the granny gear & idle to keep the truck in motion til the light turns green. Then I stay in the granny gear at idle until the vehicles stopped ahead have started moving before I start re-accelerating. That way I don't have to come to a complete stop.
Southern Fried
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Exactly the kind of thing that you only learn from experience. Sadly, it's also the kind of info you used to pick up in "the old days" when a bunch of "old guys" gathered at a "real truckstop". "Social Media" is a very poor substitute for these types of gatherings.
Nice, I tried to drive through 1 - 2' deep snow in my car to get up my driveway yesterday. First I just tried to get up it normally and got stuck so I backed up and tried to fly up it with crazy speed only to spin out. The only way I was going to get up it is if I slowly plowed it out of the way going forward and backwards a million times. So I just went for a long walk in the snow instead.
revelation1911
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I got my tatse of snow last night up on 81 in chambersburg pa. I still hate snow heading south north is upposed to get some more tomorrow
so now are you wondering why you got into trucking
tosses an electric on injun
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
I always like to test the truck/traction and ground. Giving it a bit of fuel to see at what point it breaks traction
On one occasion I was just merrily rolling along in Michigan I75 and I hit black ice. Not sure if I am good or lucky. ( I hope I am lucky) Empty wagon and the whole truck went side ways to the left, I recovered and it went side ways to the right. Everything happened so slow felt like 10 minutes. I could only think to push in the clutch and steer the wheel.
On one occasion I was just merrily rolling along in Michigan I75 and I hit black ice. Not sure if I am good or lucky. ( I hope I am lucky) Empty wagon and the whole truck went side ways to the left, I recovered and it went side ways to the right. Everything happened so slow felt like 10 minutes. I could only think to push in the clutch and steer the wheel.
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
Now all the old timers are retiring & the truck stop counter guys have less experience than I do. Scary.
Get a snowblower.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Youtube does have everything. This video is a multi car pile up In Germantown Wisconsin. It looks like everything is starting to calm down and then at about the 3:09 mark the pile up starts again.
To the credit of Americans, At least they know enough to pull off to the shoulder after a wreck. Up here there is a misconceived notion that accident scene must remain in tact. This is not true and also dangerous,
To the credit of Americans, At least they know enough to pull off to the shoulder after a wreck. Up here there is a misconceived notion that accident scene must remain in tact. This is not true and also dangerous,
I'm not actually living there. I only went up there to check on it and make sure no water pipes had broken. I bought it when the housing market bubble burst, and I planned to live there, but I lost my job in the area in the meantime. I'm thinking I might rent it out when I become an OTR trucker.Now all the old timers are retiring & the truck stop counter guys have less experience than I do. Scary.
Get a snowblower.
why don't you be nice and plow it for himNow all the old timers are retiring & the truck stop counter guys have less experience than I do. Scary.
Get a snowblower.
vaportrail
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everyone of those idiots needs there licence revoked
Southern Fried
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For the young among you I present an "old time" Trucker's Story.......
Waaaaay back when, I wuz hauling bulk milk from farms inna tank truck. This here happened in one of the wust winters in history. Wooly mammoths woulda been wearing longjohns it was so cold an icy and snowy.
Anyways I wuz running a load back frum a farm that was waaaaay out in the bush. I mean bears didn't venture back this far. But all inna day's work for a trucker y'know? Now on about the halfway point they was two very big hills we called the Twin Sisters Of Death they was so steep. As I was comin out from the farm it took to snowin an all, durn near total whiteout. I come to the top of the First Sister an stopped to breathe. Knowin what laid ahead I crammed that ol Jimmy into gear and put both feet onna throttle. Had to be wiiiide open to ever hope to make it over the other side. Hit the bottom of that valley doin' about a hunnert an five or so..... 10 feet of flame out the stacks.... an up the next grade throwin gears wit both hands. Started spinnin about 2/3 from the top., but wuz still movin.
Just as the front bumper touched the top, the ol truck started goin backards. So I just cranked the back end into the snowbank to stop her. Howsomever, that didn't work, she just jack knifed around till I was pointin downhill agin. So I piled the coal on hopin I'd get back up the first slope. But, sure enough I got the same result. Them Sisters wuz true females that night; lead a feller on but slap him to reality just as he thought he's home free.
Anyroads, I spent most of that night goin back and forth, back and forth. By the end of it I was getting pretty damn good at it but was getting bored y'know? Finally, just come daylight, a thought came to me. Just as that ol truck started to stop agin, I yanked the door open, jumped down onto the ground an gave her a push. Dang me if it didn't work..... ol truck chugged her way over onto level ground. Of course by then she was movin so slow I coulda made a far an cooked breakfast an still got back in the cab. Course, fust off I hadda stop an think a minute to figure out whichaway I was pointin by this time.
Long story short, I was soon homeward bound. Boss was some upset cause I was a tad late and wantin to know how's come I burnt up a half tank of fuel on such a short trip. Don't think he really believed me much.
Top it all off, when they took that trailer down to the dairy it wouldn't pump off. Seems that with all that back and forth that milk had churned itself inta cheese. Now whilst they was carvin it outa the trailer some SOB ate some. Danged if they didn't find her to be pretty dam good cheese at that. Don't you know they packaged that up an sold it? Opened up a whole new product line for em. But do you think I got so much as a "Thankyew" outa the deal???? Hayell NO.
Life of a trucker sure is hard by times.
The End..... of this chapter.
Waaaaay back when, I wuz hauling bulk milk from farms inna tank truck. This here happened in one of the wust winters in history. Wooly mammoths woulda been wearing longjohns it was so cold an icy and snowy.
Anyways I wuz running a load back frum a farm that was waaaaay out in the bush. I mean bears didn't venture back this far. But all inna day's work for a trucker y'know? Now on about the halfway point they was two very big hills we called the Twin Sisters Of Death they was so steep. As I was comin out from the farm it took to snowin an all, durn near total whiteout. I come to the top of the First Sister an stopped to breathe. Knowin what laid ahead I crammed that ol Jimmy into gear and put both feet onna throttle. Had to be wiiiide open to ever hope to make it over the other side. Hit the bottom of that valley doin' about a hunnert an five or so..... 10 feet of flame out the stacks.... an up the next grade throwin gears wit both hands. Started spinnin about 2/3 from the top., but wuz still movin.
Just as the front bumper touched the top, the ol truck started goin backards. So I just cranked the back end into the snowbank to stop her. Howsomever, that didn't work, she just jack knifed around till I was pointin downhill agin. So I piled the coal on hopin I'd get back up the first slope. But, sure enough I got the same result. Them Sisters wuz true females that night; lead a feller on but slap him to reality just as he thought he's home free.
Anyroads, I spent most of that night goin back and forth, back and forth. By the end of it I was getting pretty damn good at it but was getting bored y'know? Finally, just come daylight, a thought came to me. Just as that ol truck started to stop agin, I yanked the door open, jumped down onto the ground an gave her a push. Dang me if it didn't work..... ol truck chugged her way over onto level ground. Of course by then she was movin so slow I coulda made a far an cooked breakfast an still got back in the cab. Course, fust off I hadda stop an think a minute to figure out whichaway I was pointin by this time.
Long story short, I was soon homeward bound. Boss was some upset cause I was a tad late and wantin to know how's come I burnt up a half tank of fuel on such a short trip. Don't think he really believed me much.
Top it all off, when they took that trailer down to the dairy it wouldn't pump off. Seems that with all that back and forth that milk had churned itself inta cheese. Now whilst they was carvin it outa the trailer some SOB ate some. Danged if they didn't find her to be pretty dam good cheese at that. Don't you know they packaged that up an sold it? Opened up a whole new product line for em. But do you think I got so much as a "Thankyew" outa the deal???? Hayell NO.
Life of a trucker sure is hard by times.
The End..... of this chapter.
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