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"Well there was an interchange about 100 miles ago... will that work?"
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Jan 28, 2014 19:03
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 From Alabama, where it never snows. And gently caress you when it does.
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Jan 28, 2014 19:35
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Stupid phone double posting.
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Jan 28, 2014 19:37
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I always cringe when I see pictures like that. Hmm, its slippery and people are having trouble controlling their vehicles? I better leave the safety of my own and have a look-see!
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Jan 28, 2014 21:36
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Seriously? This is nothing, like absolutely nothing. If you have trouble driving in this you need to get your drivers licence removed. Yes I always love the folks that feel the need to remove themselves from their steel safety cage and walk around in bad conditions in fleshy glory. People who get out of their cars in a crash are bad at life. If your car is badly mangled, time to get on the other side of whatever barrier / ditch exists and wait for help there.
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Jan 28, 2014 22:39
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I'm going to bet that Alabama has no laws about winter tires, and with summer tires even half an inch of snow is going to put you in trouble.
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Jan 28, 2014 22:53
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I'm going to bet that most people in Alabama are tooling around on dry-rotted, bald, cheap summer tires because they rarely if ever experience a situation in which traction is limited. It's why rainstorms are such a ridiculous death orgy in California. Little bit of surface water and it's hydroplane city. We have tons of morons in Canada who are tooling around on bald all-seasons but the fact that they can't get out of their driveway for eight months in a row tends to limit their potential damage. e: vvv Yeah there is a definite perception among people who have never driven in a low-traction condition that brakes are always the "save me" button. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jan 28, 2014 |
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Jan 28, 2014 22:56
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Seriously this is horrible. People around here have no clue how to drive in any limited traction situation. I've seen 20 or so wrecks because people think "oh poo poo I'm sliding a little time for BRAKES!!!!!"
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Jan 28, 2014 23:11
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Even caring enough to buy separate summer/winter tires probably puts you in the 95th percentile of drivers, depending on what state you're in.
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Jan 28, 2014 23:22
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm going to bet that most people in Alabama are tooling around on dry-rotted, bald, cheap summer tires because they rarely if ever experience a situation in which traction is limited. They do that here in New England and just go careening into the ditch anyway and pretend to be surprised. Are there places with actual laws regarding winter tires? I know there are places that mandate chains but that's not exactly going to be in any kind of urban / suburban area.
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Jan 28, 2014 23:23
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Snowdens Secret posted:Are there places with actual laws regarding winter tires? I know there are places that mandate chains but that's not exactly going to be in any kind of urban / suburban area. Yes, Quebec mandates them at current. Ze Germans do not mandate them, but I believe you can be found at fault for accidents if you are not running them. Your insurance company probably also gets pissed.
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Jan 28, 2014 23:24
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Nidhg00670000 posted:As for Sweden and winter tyres, straight from the Swedish Transport Agency:
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Jan 28, 2014 23:26
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I was driving around northeastern PA this weekend in these conditions: All of the locals were driving reasonable speeds, maybe 5 or 10 mph slower than normal at most on straights, easing into turns with smooth deceleration. But every now and then you'd get stuck behind a tourist from NY doing not more than 20 mph, with a line of cars 15 deep stuck behind them.
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Jan 28, 2014 23:30
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Instead of winter tires, I'm going to get a winter beater. Or just a beater and put some sheet metal screws as death studs.
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Jan 29, 2014 06:23
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yes, Quebec mandates them at current. My insurance company gives me a sweet discount for having them and thankfully haven't made the connection that they're on a RWD no traction control drift machine.
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Jan 29, 2014 07:48
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Yep, it's still snowing. C'mon people, it's Western New York, you can go more than five snails per hour. On Monday, I saw a lady get pulled over by 3 cop cars. Of course traffic slowed the gently caress down, but it was all for nothing: two cops went on their way, the lady went vavoomon her way and the last car just sat there.
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Jan 29, 2014 13:26
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InterceptorV8 posted:Instead of winter tires, I'm going to get a winter beater. You're not going to give us any clearer pictures or post that over in CA? I wanna know how you/they fit three inch death spikes under a front fender.
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Jan 29, 2014 14:53
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I hate the 5mphers But I also hate people who ride my rear end when I'm keeping distance from the guy doing 20 in a 40.
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Safety Dance posted:You're not going to give us any clearer pictures or post that over in CA? I wanna know how you/they fit three inch death spikes under a front fender.  (not the same bike)
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Jan 29, 2014 17:40
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That looks like a really bad and really time consuming idea. Heh. "Gonna need more beer to finish this one."
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Jan 29, 2014 18:22
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You do that to run on like a frozen lake, not regular roads.
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Jan 29, 2014 18:38
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm going to bet that Alabama has no laws about winter tires, and with summer tires even half an inch of snow is going to put you in trouble. Please understand that this poo poo rarely happens in Alabama (or in most places in the Deep South, for that matter). So I have no choice but to take it in stride when a normal 30 minute commute turns into nearly seven hours of pure, unadulterated fuckery due to iced-up roads. At least I found that a slow and steady start (and slightly less air than normal in your drive tires) gives you more traction than peeling out full-throttle in hopes of burning a dry spot in the ground for traction.
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Jan 29, 2014 18:45
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Snowdens Secret posted:You do that to run on like a frozen lake, not regular roads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqcAoLuTnc This is kind of a behind the scenes of another video, but the original has fallen victim to Youtube's overzealous content protection filter and has no sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_weIUwd_o
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speaking of wintery death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9lF_9m7yQ
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ijustam posted:speaking of wintery death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9lF_9m7yQ Man this doesn't seem so bad... Oh Holy fffffffuuuuckk.
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ijustam posted:speaking of wintery death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9lF_9m7yQ Me: Oh boy another video where someone tries to drift in the snow and does something stupid *watches video* me: NO NO NO that's not what this is at all! That had me crapping my pants and I'm inside on a computer chair. I wonder if he could framebyframe that bitch and get the numbers off of the truck door.
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tater_salad posted:Me: Oh boy another video where someone tries to drift in the snow and does something stupid Shouldn't really have to do too much, guy is hauling hazmat and if there was a scale nearby, they have to have a record of him crossing it.
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I'm stuck on US280 south of Birmingham, could someone stop by with some snow chains? Thanks in advance...
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Any of you guys work in container drayage? What's the word about it, is it a better/worse job other types of trucking and why?
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Jan 30, 2014 07:11
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0rganDonor posted:I'm stuck on US280 south of Birmingham, could someone stop by with some snow chains? Lock in powerdivider, hammer down son. kathmandu posted:Any of you guys work in container drayage? What's the word about it, is it a better/worse job other types of trucking and why? I believe there is someone who did it more recent than I have. But are you port or rail?
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InterceptorV8 posted:Lock in powerdivider, hammer down son. With 7k in the box? I'm waiting this one out. My route takes me from Opelika to Lansing, I've never shut down for snow or ice, this ice is different somehow, maybe it's the completely untreated roads.
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0rganDonor posted:With 7k in the box? I'm waiting this one out. My route takes me from Opelika to Lansing, I've never shut down for snow or ice, this ice is different somehow, maybe it's the completely untreated roads. Yeah gently caress it, if everybody is being stupid, best bet is not to join them.
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It's the completely untreaded roads because Birmingham and Atlanta don't believe in 'salt' I threw chain in Atlanta, only to stop dead a half hour and 10 miles later and sat 18 hours. We went through the middle of town to avoid an accident that covered 4 lanes. Then between ATL and Birmingham a R&L set of doubles turned sideways and into the median on I-20 East blocking all lanes and 20 miles from anything. Glad I was going the other way. Now I'm in Orlando hoping it's cleared up because I just know they're gonna send us right back to ATL to get the freight to catch up.
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As someone living in a country where the answer to all and every kind of winter road is SALT, I can tell you that salt has a few, very specific kinds of wintry conditions where it works great. Most of the time it just turns everything into slush (making poo poo worse) AND it rusts the hell out of your car.
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It also can be disruptive to the environment.
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CharlesM posted:It also can be disruptive to the environment. Not as disruptive as a couple of hundred gallons of diesel and unleaded though.
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InterceptorV8 posted:I believe there is someone who did it more recent than I have. But are you port or rail? Neither, actually. I work for an import freight forwarder, so I work with lots of drayage companies. Just wondering what container drayage is like for the drivers. I hear about a lot of lovely parts-- long lines at port or rail and such. Chicago in particular has been hellish lately, from the sound of it. Is it better or worse than road work?
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My single memory of dealing with a port was them calling dispatch and raging out and demanding I turn around 40 miles down the road to go back and fill out their little digital check-out form again because it didn't go right the first time. I still regret so much as acknowledging that message.
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kathmandu posted:Neither, actually. I work for an import freight forwarder, so I work with lots of drayage companies. Just wondering what container drayage is like for the drivers. I hear about a lot of lovely parts-- long lines at port or rail and such. Chicago in particular has been hellish lately, from the sound of it. Is it better or worse than road work? Depends I guess, I mean you can be home every night if you are lucky and only pulling port, but since I stopped doing any container work, they've added TWIC ([ask] me about entering a port and foreign trade zone without a TWIC card  ) and more bullshit. I guess the union roadworthness guys are more like worthless guys and take hours to change lights on the dollies, that's some of the poo poo I hear from some of our port drivers, and I really wish they'd stop trying to loving steal my mudflaps, loving container drivers don't know what to do with a short dolly motherfuckers I can burn this place down I swear to god...Anyway, it's really roll of the dice, you can have a good crew and get poo poo loving down, or you can have the worthless fucks that won't put down the cellphone to do poo poo.
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