Trucker since 030595. What you're seeing their are all the guys and gals that failed to listen to their inner intuition and that is to stop the truck somewhere safe and wait out the storm.😮😮😮😮
Thank you Truckers for your dedication to your profession of keeping our country moving and keeping us supplied with the goods and services we can not live without.
My daughter is out there. Her company has her parked at Truck stop until Monday. I hate the winter months. It's not her I worry about. It's the driver's on the rd. I'm glad she's safe. She just bought groceries, so she waits.
My dispatcher tried to play me mentally into picking up a load when I said I'm going to park till Monday when it's better. He said it's actually not gonna be better so its better to pick up today....i told him I'll get out of the truck if i have to then.
My husband is a trucker, 34 years in the seat. When I tell him he is going to run into bad weather, he parks it. I run a Facebook group for truckers and I let them know what roads are impassable etc. There are many times drivers get caught in this kind of weather because they were looking for a place to park. There is a severe shortage of parking for truckers and when roads are bad they head for the nearest place to park. There have been many times my husband had to drive 100 miles out of his way just to find a place to park. All rest areas are full, all truck stops are full, they can't park in shopping center parking lots or they will get towed. So it's not that they could care less about the roads or others around them, they are just looking for a place to park.
My dad got in a lot of trouble and got fired from an "Orange Trucking Company" for driving WAAAyyyyy over his allowed time because there was no place to park during a storm.
As someone who drove for 36 years, you are the only one that can say no, and stay off the road no matter what your company or the shipper says you have that right and that authority Why would you put yourself in harms way that load is not worth your life?
I've been saying that for years and always get blow back from those who insist that earning a dollar is more important than protecting your life and the lives of others.
@@patrickcummins976 Money are not important for most drivers in situations like this but if you say NO your greedy company will probably fire you? I'm not a trucker just thinking about CDL.
@@peterdavis8471 I used the truck to recover from ADD. I was losing my ability to function in the local world. Getting on the truck gave me control of my environment. I wished many times I had been able to break that cycle. I am happy you were, or are able to do that. I still have good and bad days. My wife has been a big help. if you have a wife, or someone else who can stand by you, you are blessed in a multiplicity of ways. Treasure them.
I have to drive through there tomorrow from MO to MN. I heard the roads were full of Black Ice, high winds and Whiteout conditions in various places. Mother Nature will win that battle every time. A professional driver knows to get off the road. Sad to see this.
Park it driver not worth the risks involved or fall out from a lawsuit should God forbid you're in a multiple vehicles road accident 😳 stay at whatever truck 🚚 stop you're at stock up on food items water and if possible top off on diesel ⛽️ fuel be safe out there and all my fellow truckers on these wintry snow covered roads as well everyone else ... 4 wheelers RVs campers and State Police local police 🚔 and Fire rescue EMS 1st responders ... Be Safe 😊
The real problem comes when it remains at 20 to -30 degrees; snow & ice just won't melt away at those bitter temps!!! And if the snowstorm clears & the sun does eventually come out for many hours at it may warm up to 40 to 50 degrees afterwards, it'll just refreezes when the overnight temps drop down 30 to 10 degrees. I've had many a slip & fall in wintertime conditions in the over 17 years i've been driving (also from being hard headed and trying to walk too fast, not duck walking 😮😮😑😑😔😔)!! You'll walk across the parking lot fine for the most part, hit a patch of ice, then those legs will come out from under you so fast & you're on the ground before you know it!! Slips & falls hurt a lot worse in bitter, cold temps!! STAY SAFE, WARM & DRY Y'ALL!!
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As a 30 yr wife of long haul trucker I kept close track of weather channel once we had cell phones. Tornadoes and blizzards.I would call him and every call always started with "where are you?" anyway. And then I would say either "pull over now" or "next exit get off and park it"! I kept my Rand McNally Truckers Road Atlas under my living room chair and always knew exactly what he was dealing with in his difficult, challenging job. Safety First for everyone! Continue Resting In Peace Mr. Lesueur.
It's a free world. People are free to make stupid decisions. We can't ban or shut down fast food, vape, alcohol, or cigarettes either. Rather, we need to focus on teaching folks to make smart decisions. Government isn't the solution. Government is often the cause of the issues. The best control we can ever have resides in the mushy substance slightly above and behind the nose, between the ears and within the hairline (if you're lucky to still have hair). If we ever focused on making common sense great again, what a wonderful world it would be! Meanwhile, Darwin will continue to weed them out.
As a trucker I agree to at least shutting it down for trucks. Trucks are the usually the ones that go down first in weather like this dude to the high winds blowing the trailers around on icy roads. Unfortunately a lot of rookie drivers will just keep driving in this shit completely oblivious to how dangerous it actually is. Hence what you see in this video.
@@jordan2735 I'm a trucker who has driven though worse. It's those who lack ice driving skills which ruins it for those who are actually good at driving on the untreated ice. Only problem I've ever had on any icy road was avoiding those who can't drive on ice for sh*t.
I-84 through Columbia River Gorge in Oregon is expecting black ice and wind gusts up to 80 mph tomorrow (Saturday January 13). I bet some semis are overturned. Waiting for it.
Not all who drive nowadays have a lick of common sense. See some out of towners put their trucks in the ditch many times thinking 70mph will help them plow through a foot+ of snow. Professional... 😂 There are legit truckers out there. In these storms, they'd be bedded down at the truck stops. 😁 Love the true pro's out there! Kinda wish the idiots shown here would lose their license.
Im a truck driver I sleep on these days ..no need calling me cause thee entire answer is NOOO! You should have went down 380 toward 80 west in Iowa..you really would have seen a cemetery of trucks plus all other vehicles. It’s a mess.
I drove for 15 years. I always checked for possible bad weather along my route. The last few years I drove a lot around Lake Michigan or Lake Erie. Always had a plan. When things started looking bad I knew where I was going to park. Absolutely no one had control of me or my truck but me!
The real problem comes when it remains at 20 to -30 degrees; snow & ice just won't melt away at those bitter temps!!! And if the snowstorm clears & the sun does eventually come out for many hours as it may warm up to 40 to 50 degrees afterwards, it'll just refreezes when the overnight temps drop down 30 to 10 degrees. I've had many a slip & fall in wintertime conditions in the over 17 years i've been driving (also from being hard headed and trying to walk too fast, not duck walking 😮😮😑😑😔😔)!! You'll walk across the parking lot fine for the most part, hit a patch of ice, then those legs will come out from under you so fast & you're on the ground before you know it!! Slips & falls hurt a lot worse in bitter, cold temps!! STAY SAFE, WARM & DRY Y'ALL!!
That problem is very broad. There are drivers who get themselves into this kind of situation and there are companies who push drivers into what they call "shipper / receiver appointment" . I am OTR driver and hear that all the time. I always park when situation gets close to hazardous.
These are all that have no common sense. This is NOT the only senseless mistake they’ve ever made I assure you. The problem is that a HUGE majority of so called truck drivers out here now have NO clue what is safe and what is NOT. There’s your result of piss poor judgement. Guarantee you most of them are NOT from America
I don't missvthe days of driving in the winter wonderland. But the expetience built character and a wealth what not to do. Chains, stocked food, full fuel tanks, extra bedding, and learning when the risk outweighed the reward got me through them. I won't knock these guys mistakes. The best teacher is experience. As was told me by the the old school truckers backbin 03'. Until it happens to you. You don't know dik. Stay safe and rock steady everyone.
I follow some truck drivers on youtube, but one thing I notice is that some truck drivers do not check the weather along their route; other drivers do not take necessary precautions to avoid accidents.
When I was driving my truck Nebraska headed back to Indiana, I had to go through Iowa. I was trying to make it past Iowa before the Blizzard started but I got hit with a live load which took 2 hours. Once I saw the sign that said "Travel Not Advised" I stopped, but I saw so many trucks stuck, flipped over, on the opposite side of the road. There was a ban on tow trucks being able to come service vehicles. I ended up getting stuck on ice in a truck parking lot. I wasn't too mad because I was in a safe spot off of the road. I got out with my triple chains. I was stuck from Friday to Sunday. I was in Davenport. Sunday was better, it was just cold and they treated the roads, plus, I knew once I made it to Illinois I was straight because it wasn't as bad. It was crazy out there. Definitely scary for it to be my 2nd month as a solo driver.
Semi Driver for 16yrs and what you are seeing are drivers who didn't listen to their inner selves and stayed off the road and waited out the Storm but who also DIDN'T LISTEN to the CB which would have told them that the driving Conditions were NOT SAFE and they didn't need to be out there in the First place. Had they listened to their inner selves and their Trucker Instincts you wouldn't be seeing any of this
Im a company driver some companies if the road wasnt closed they considered it still safe to drive and would insist you keep moving down the road with the load then you have the choice of parking it and being fired or doing as told keep driving and crossing your fingers the ride ends well in the end which ever choice you make the next is to find a different company
Luckily, I caught the tail end of that storm as I was heading to Davenport, IA from Minnesota. The carnage was apocalyptic…..trucks were ditched every 5-10 miles. I’m not sure what possesses drivers to attempt conquering such conditions; but, it’s unwise and unsafe. What’s so hard about waiting it out?
It's funny reading the comments. Obviously people from Southern states. The highway in this video is not too bad. However, a lot of people don't have a self realization that they are not good drivers. These kind of conditions require good driving skills and those who are good wouldn't have much difficulty handling those conditions. I've dealt with them for over 40 years without incident
Well you need traction and visibility. Some of these scenes show a significant lack of the latter. If you don't have visibility it doesn't matter how much traction you have.
I really don’t know a lot about broadcasting my question is I’m wondering why at the top of this clip says not for broadcasting why is that? Hope you can answer that in a simple paragraph.Thank you
Many times truckers do not have the option to just 'park'. They are carrying medicines that hospitals are waiting on, military weapon parts that are being waited on, and auto parts that could shut-down assembly lines. Deliver late and trucking companies lose the contracts. What I see here is just a lack of experience and a lack of capability in driving an 18.
This is what happens when you wanna drive fast in inclement weather and be a SUPER TRUCKER I been driving since 88 when it’s bad like this you have a late load coming from me
Absolutely no need to be alarmed folks, it’s not “climate change”! It’s called winter and it’s perfectly normal for this time of the year ! Get used to it and drive carefully!
But they knew about the upcoming storm and still went out ? No load is worth dying for no appointment that can’t be rescheduled nobody is to blame but the driver knows better
well those people driving cars win no prizes either unless it's the stupid games prize. I wouldn't drive from the front of my house to the back in this weather
I ran double coverage last January in this type of stuff OKC (hailed as the big Siberian storm) got just to pick up labs from clinics and take back to main hospital. They used to say don't get out unless you have to, now they don't bother because everyone thinks they "have to"🙄
Being a truck driver since the early 80s here in the last 10-15 years i heve never seen as idiots out there watching this video is the ones i am talking about the trucking industry went to hell
Been there done that 😮 ... but no way would I let a company dispatcher tell me in unspoken words that the load has to be delivered fuxx that ... 😊 I would tell them send me a text stating your dispatch status or a Qualcomm message sit back and watch how they coward back to their desks lol knowing well it's in the system saved by me thankfully I ended my 34 years trucking 🚚 with just minor scratching and rubbing incidents when dropping trailers at a warehouse facility and the yard jockeys parking them close to each other barely room to squeeze in and crank the landing gear down ... at times I would just drop them in a spot and boogie on out of there 😅 let them park it 😊
Should each states issue a different CDL during winter season. Or a different type of CDL should be implemented during this season. As only the most skilled drivers should be using the road.
I live in Maine, and I get it that sometimes you gotta be somewhere or get somethig done or whatever, but darn it, if you really dont need to be out there, stay home in weather like this. You could die. And not just from a crash, but just get stuck and freeze to death. Got to ask yourself..."is it worth it?"
With many of the new drivers out there that can not even run on dry roads in the sun shine it is not hard to believe this. Automatics I bet are a nightmare on slick roads, I only drove a stick and would not want be behind the wheel with an automatic.
AND..... Not only parking safely But being paid for your time to safely park, I think we're gonna push for that next. That's why a lot of people don't push the park in bad weather because they're not being paid to park in bad weather Yeah that's going to change
Too many trucking companies do not pay drivers down time so if they are not rolling they make no money. Owner operators can make their own decisions on whether it’s worth it
@@Chiefgeargrinder if you can't wait out a storm, you're doing something wrong. What do you do when you need a major repair? You're equally screwed. I don't know what you're doing but I paid my truck off in less than 2 and a half years on a 3 year loan, worked practically like a 9 to 5er, and maintained my equipment OCD style. We had a huge boom for a couple years in a row. What did you do with all that extra money?
@@dchawk81 I'm a company driver. Good, I'm glad you so fortunate. I have a disabled Wife and I support a household on my income which is the only one. Cheers.
Most storms are over and roads cleared in short order these days. NO reason to put yourself and others at risk. If the worst happens, you're not going anywhere for anyone anytime soon.
