Tips for feeder driving in the snow...

[moreluck]

Post #59 does that mean you are part of the herding group......are we at Westminster?

 

[ajblakejr]

This may sound trivial but it is great advice. We had a pkg car driver who was cited at a DOT checkpoint for having an empty WW fluid container and no fluid on board.

Not trivial.
This is part of your pretrip inspection.

 

[cachsux]

Not trivial.
This is part of your pretrip inspection.

"I'm in package car. What's a pre-trip?"

 

[MaceFremonti]

Sadly there are a few guys that really don't pretrip in feeders either. When I was on the Q I red tagged at least one tractor a week for things that should have been easily caught in a proper pretrip....mechanics knew my name real quick

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[cachsux]

Sadly there are a few guys that really don't pretrip in feeders either. When I was on the Q I red tagged at least one tractor a week for things that should have been easily caught in a proper pretrip....mechanics knew my name real quick

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1 a week? Why are you slacking?

It's not hard to go one a day here.

 

[MaceFremonti]

I wont even mention the number of dollies and trailers!

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[anonymous6]

most drivers don't do a pretrip when its snowing because they are worried about being late. this is insanity! this is especially the time when you should be doing a thorough pre=trip. I expect to find something wrong and usually do. and I am usually late but they don't say anything anymore because they know me.

the fact that there are not more accidents in bad weather due to the equipment is a credit to our mechanics who do excellent PMI inspections.

 

[pretender]

most drivers don't do a pretrip when its snowing because they are worried about being late. this is insanity! this is especially the time when you should be doing a thorough pre=trip. I expect to find something wrong and usually do. and I am usually late but they don't say anything anymore because they know me.

the fact that there are not more accidents in bad weather due to the equipment is a credit to our mechanics who do excellent PMI inspections.

I love the irony!

 

[Dracula]

most drivers don't do a pretrip when its snowing because they are worried about being late. this is insanity! this is especially the time when you should be doing a thorough pre=trip. I expect to find something wrong and usually do. and I am usually late but they don't say anything anymore because they know me.

the fact that there are not more accidents in bad weather due to the equipment is a credit to our mechanics who do excellent PMI inspections.

Mechanics are like the rest of us, there are some good ones, and plenty of crappy ones. Some of our mechanics get pissed off when we bring equipment back for them to fix.

That's still no excuse for lazy feeder drivers. In a hurry? So what? What these kind of drivers forget is that the pre-trip inspection is a DOT requirement, not a UPS one. Sooner or later, these drivers will roll snake eyes.

 

[hondo]

"I'm in package car. What's a pre-trip?"

Sad, but true.

 

[MaceFremonti]

When I started this thread last week I was sliding around in the snow in the mountains.... today its 65 and sunny 2900 feet above sea level!

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[oldngray]

supposed to get about 8 inches of snow tomorrow with snow falling at a rate of an inch per hour. By tomorrow night maybe a foot accumulation. Fun Friday

 

[cachsux]

When I started this thread last week I was sliding around in the snow in the mountains.... today its 65 and sunny 2900 feet above sea level!

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No texting while driving, knucklehead.

 

[cachsux]

supposed to get about 8 inches of snow tomorrow with snow falling at a rate of an inch per hour. By tomorrow night maybe a foot accumulation. Fun Friday

Maybe it won't be so bad. Is that in man inches?

 

[MaceFremonti]

Texting during my 2 hour wait/nap for my meet guy IS allowed!

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[Johney]

Texting during my 2 hour wait/nap for my meet guy IS allowed!

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As long as you put it in as meal.While your waiting.

 

[Dracula]

I only speak from my experience, but ice is the worst. I pull over and wait for salt trucks when I lose traction on roads absent of snow. Having said that, I went through two white knuckle nights this week driving in heavy, heavy fog. I've driven down the same roads for two years now, and that was about my only saving grace. Going 40MPH on the interstate, I could only see two or three digits on the road ahead of me. Give me the snow any day. Unless it's a night time blizzard, you can at least see the road in snow.

 

[pretender]

...and then there is the dreaded freezing fog.

 

[cachsux]

I only speak from my experience, but ice is the worst. I pull over and wait for salt trucks when I lose traction on roads absent of snow. Having said that, I went through two white knuckle nights this week driving in heavy, heavy fog. I've driven down the same roads for two years now, and that was about my only saving grace. Going 40MPH on the interstate, I could only see two or three digits on the road ahead of me. Give me the snow any day. Unless it's a night time blizzard, you can at least see the road in snow.

If you have to, go 30.

 

[over9five]

Give me the snow any day.

Funny, I was thinking last night that I'd rather be driving on road in a snowstorm than in the yard with all the extra casual shifters.
The yard is a dangerous place during Peak.