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I have been driving the mountains of the west for better than 19 years now, and I have a great deal of experience doing it. If you will take this following info posted from long ago, and place it with whatever your trainer is teaching you, (HOPEFULLY you HAVE a trainer who has driven the mountains in winter!)
By using the following techniques, I always got up and over wintery mountain passes without ever a problem. DON'T become a billy bigrigger and go zipping down an icy road like you're real tough or something! Icy conditions demand R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!!
Here is one from the archives....
Newbie Winter Driving
Here is yet another.....
Newbie Winter Driving Revisited
Ask any other questions these posts may have missed and you will receive your answers. Winter driving DEMANDS your FULL, UNDIVIDED attention! Understand exactly how to get that big truck down the road, up the hill, down the hill, and get it parked when conditions are too bad: you'll do just fine.......
[This message was edited by Skid Row Joe on September 25, 2003 at 11:06.]

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the NUMBER 1 tip I can offer up is do not worry what the other guy is doing. It does not matter if 1000 other drivers go on, if you feel the truck needs to be parked then park it and wait for conditions to improve to the point you feel it is safe to go on. There is almost nothing more dangerous on the road in the winter than a driver who becomes genuinely afraid. About the only thing that might be more dangerous (and this is a toss up in my book) is the idiot who thinks he is invincible.
I will always be a mutter trucker at heart.
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Worth bringing back to the top.
Getting that time of the year, people.
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One that i remember was in Jan. '01, going west on I-70 through Kansas heading for Denver. It was around 7:00A and the road, while partly snow packed, wasn't too bad. It was a sunny morning after a storm. I was tooling along at about 35mph, which I thought was appropriate for conditions. I began hearing truckers on the CB ask "Hey, ****, are you OK?" "Yea, I'm fine. I have food and water, engine runs. I'm just waiting for a tow." I heard comments like that for about 5 minutes, wondering what **** had gotten into. I came around a curve and there he was, in a snowbank, 90deg. to the west bound lanes (MY SIDE!) I wondered how in the world he got at a 90 like that. When I got closer I saw the tracks in the median strip. He had started out on the eastbound side, lost it, crossed the median, came across the west bound lanes at a 90 deg angle, and plowed into the snowbank. He had to have been haulin'! He's lucky to be alive.
Slow down in the rough stuff! Your friends here don't want to lose you!
I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane.
Waylon Jennings

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This one deserves a few trips back to the top.

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Originally posted by uturn2001:
the NUMBER 1 tip I can offer up is do not worry what the other guy is doing. It does not matter if 1000 other drivers go on, if you feel the truck needs to be parked then park it and wait for conditions to improve to the point you feel it is safe to go on. There is almost nothing more dangerous on the road in the winter than a driver who becomes genuinely afraid. About the only thing that might be more dangerous (and this is a toss up in my book) is the idiot who thinks he is invincible.
I will always be a mutter trucker at heart.
Most certainly correct i think it's sort of funny when someone passes you going a lot faster then you on slick roads and later on down the road there they sit in the ditch while you are just slowly making your way.Don't worry about the other drivers in a hurry drive at a speed you are comfotable with .If you not confortable with the road conditions no matter what the speed is your running then pull off and wait for the road to get better .Nothing worth risking your life and the lifes of others above all else .
Be safe, the life you save my be your own !!!!
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