No winter tires + No driving skill + No emergency preparation =

[Cowpokey]

SMH you're dumber than a box of rocks

Ignore option already used, so I'll take your word for it.

 

[supercorndogs]

If the truck going 65 would drop their speed 2 mph to let the faster truck by, then everyone would live.

Anyone that thinks their vehicle can stop inside a one second following distance is a moron. Doesn't matter what they are driving. Distance is life.

Everyone IS using the road for a purpose, trucks included. When two two trucks need to pass and you have to slow down for a few seconds it's the end of the world, but when I need to move over because someone is getting on a 70 or 75 mph road at 30 mph you will think nothing of powering into the space I need to change lanes to avoid driving over the top of that slower traffic.

How about my personal favorite? The car that is entering onto the highway and aims right at my fuel tanks as the point they want to merge into. Could have rolled on the power a bit and gone into the space in front of me. (and there is a space in front of me! Remember, distance is life.) Could have rolled off the power a bit and merged in behind. (ok if a 4 wheeler is tailgating the shit out of me that space might not be there) Nope aim right at my fuel tank and play chicken. If there is traffic in the other lane, what do they expect is going to happen?

If you can't see that 80% of the people driving cars on the road drive like shit, then you are part of the 80%, and not the 20% that actually engages with their environment when they are driving.

True, I am not special (AND NEITHER ARE YOU!!) If I quit, or if the driver with 30 years and 3 million safe driving miles quits, they will be replaced...and then you bitch about the carnage on the highways. You shit talk truckers, and say it's lowest common denomonator, yet you want top level safe courteous pros while you are on the road. What do you want? Decently paid happy professionals, or scum and villany? Let's connect a few threads posted on this very forum posted in the last few days? One guy with decades of experience says he is packing it in because his company fucked him over because they cut their payroll down below 500 to get PPP money. Another thread "Where did all the workers go?" Maybe treating people like shit isn't a good long term strategy after all? Don't you see that it's all connected? Is making the world shit for everyone else really the path to creating a better world? For you? For everyone else?

I don't drive a truck because it is what I always dreamed of doing. I do it because I had of choice of doing a job I was really good at in a part of the country that I despise, or I could do a job I don't really like doing that pays pretty good and live in a place that I didn't hate living.

I read about one sentence, thanks for wasting your time proving how butt hurt you are.

 

[hlee]

Instead of dropping a few mph to let the passing rig through, they play grab ass for 30 miles. A passes B on the up hills, and B passes A on the down hills. All the while they are both doing 10 below the posted speed limit because neither of them can climb a grade. Traffic piles up behind them. Then, they wonder why the passenger cars whiz by and play “how close can I get to your bumper before changing lanes.”

If it were just 2 rigs it would t be an issue. But, it’s every damned rig. All damned day. Every damned day.

3,000,000 accident free miles? Congrats, I haven’t killed anyone at my job either. Maybe we can get matching medals.

 

[Lecious Maximus]

Northern VA in winter

Virginia I-95 winter storm disaster leaves hundreds stranded: ‘This is unprecedented’

The Virginia Department of Transportation is warning drivers to stay away from Interstate 95 Tuesday morning so crews can free up hundreds of drivers who remain stranded or in slow-moving traffic in temperatures well-below freezing, in what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” event.

www.foxnews.com

People die where I live all the time of over exposure due to winter conditions. People who don't know the climate or area where they moved to, or the roads. People who are just going to the store for a couple of items in t-shirts and tennis shoes. Right now it's -9 with a wind chill factor of -26 . You get caught outside unprepared for more than a few hours, your in trouble.

 

[Maxduty]

You might consider putting that 30 pack of water in the cab of the truck if you have room.
You don't want to find it boiling hot or frozen solid when you actually need it, plus it will last longer with a bit of protection from the elements.

Yeah, water.....anyway I've got a camper shell.