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<blockquote data-quote="RuralDriver" data-source="post: 1392797" data-attributes="member: 54746"><p>I think winter driving is the hardest thing to learn to do safely. You can't park uphill at all, or you get stuck. You need to stay off the edges of roads, even if it means parking toward the middle of the street. Otherwise, you'll slide into mailboxes or curbs or ditches. You have no anti-lock brake or traction control; your tires are designed for durability and not for traction. You need to be prepared to stop at every intersection, because if someone's coming the other way, you will slide a long ways before you can stop. And get fired for an intersection accident. </p><p></p><p>On country routes, you need to learn which roads are better traveled than others, which ones are plowed first (county roads), and which ones you just never ever take. Eventually, you learn where the drifts always happen. If you're driving in the dark, you need to be going slow enough that you can stop if the drifts are too big. Most of the time, if you are going to get stuck, it's going to be in some farmer's yard and not on the road. Walking off these stops will save you lots of time, if you can avoid getting stuck... </p><p></p><p>I think a third of my roads aren't maintained in the winter, or are maintained poorly, so I end up putting on lots of extra miles. If I have to drive 4 extra miles, to give myself 8 miles of pavement, it can be well worth it. </p><p></p><p>Putting 400 lbs of sandbags on the wheel wells helps traction quite a bit...</p><p></p><p>I hate the winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RuralDriver, post: 1392797, member: 54746"] I think winter driving is the hardest thing to learn to do safely. You can't park uphill at all, or you get stuck. You need to stay off the edges of roads, even if it means parking toward the middle of the street. Otherwise, you'll slide into mailboxes or curbs or ditches. You have no anti-lock brake or traction control; your tires are designed for durability and not for traction. You need to be prepared to stop at every intersection, because if someone's coming the other way, you will slide a long ways before you can stop. And get fired for an intersection accident. On country routes, you need to learn which roads are better traveled than others, which ones are plowed first (county roads), and which ones you just never ever take. Eventually, you learn where the drifts always happen. If you're driving in the dark, you need to be going slow enough that you can stop if the drifts are too big. Most of the time, if you are going to get stuck, it's going to be in some farmer's yard and not on the road. Walking off these stops will save you lots of time, if you can avoid getting stuck... I think a third of my roads aren't maintained in the winter, or are maintained poorly, so I end up putting on lots of extra miles. If I have to drive 4 extra miles, to give myself 8 miles of pavement, it can be well worth it. Putting 400 lbs of sandbags on the wheel wells helps traction quite a bit... I hate the winter. [/QUOTE]
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