well welcome to a typical Wyoming snowstorm goes because that's what we
got today on Elk Mountain and I can't even say it's like a non-typical event I
mean it happened so often when it's not in the forecast just be ready for it
because it's gonna come for you on Alpha Mountain now I was just over here the
other day and it was actually I don't know it was all ice there was snow but
this just started you cuz I'm the first person to drive on this new powder as
they say it is October the 23rd at 5:51 in the morning but we're not in San
Francisco today we are back in Wyoming I can't maintain 75 miles an hour I
can't get anywhere near it hopefully this will clear up by the time
I get to the Lincoln rest up or Laramie like ok Laramie is 56 miles away and
look I think I'm in the middle of the road right now it's it's no one so
heavily that all I can do is oh hey look I can I can I can barely see the rumble
strip over there that rumble strip is a good thing I bless their heart I love a
rumble strip as long as it's not raining and freezing because when number humble
strips feel full of rain they freeze they don't they don't give you no
traction then but right now I could definitely use that and the snow don't
seem really wet let me let me see it no it's pretty wet ok I just took my
hand out the window it's wet but it ain't splatter in the window like it's
wet but I guarantee it is this is what you had to look forward to and why I
mean this is what we had to deal with it was not in the 4k
I've checked the forecast before I started driving and it said the elk
mountain was gonna be dry today so this might just be a localized flurry event
that you expect on Elk Mountain even if even if it's not forecasted valet good
morning and welcome to Wyoming out hey guys I'm over here in people's today
we're getting ready to be in people's I'm in the area and I've had questions
of why I 80 is so dangerous for truckers and why it's so congested so I thought
I'd tell you here's how it works out we all know the dangers of i-70 right
snow-covered roads in Vail two three four five six
sorry I'm in coffee seven let's just make it strong all right so I seventy is
snow covered but way before the rest of the country and it stays that way and
they require max chains in that area which a lot of people don't want to
carry a lot of companies won't let you chain
up so if you're you know like a company driver they won't allow you to chain up
I think it's dangerous or something I know right so they carry chains to be
able to travel in that direction they don't have they don't have the ability
to China or the B okay the ability and there's not a lot of places to stop on
70 so you have to chain up and you have to go when you're told to chain up
that's just the way it works so a lot of companies won't allow their drivers
there they're new drivers especially or or training companies to even run on
i-70 after August all right now now we got to look at 80 across 80 you do have
truck stops places to get off the road and repair shops now we'll come back to
IAT all right now let's jump on up to 90 90 is 90 and 94 are the same issues with
snow and ice in the winter actually 94 and 90
get less actual snow and ice weather than 80 in my opinion I'm sure you could
look that up but because there is such few services that there's not a lot of
name-brand truck stops or service centers especially for the reefer the
companies that run so many reefers right prime and England and companies like
that even though it's a shorter route between the west and Chicago which is
where it's so much the stuff goes or farther on east or wherever they just
don't allow people to run on that Highway
because if they break down if their reefer breaks down specifically they
can't get a service center out to fix it well they can't find a service center to
service the engine on the reefer so they make everyone drive on 80 now the issue
with 80 is real simple it's over congested all of these companies they're
just you know each one is thinking about their self they're not thinking about
the whole in any way so all of these major companies even if they're going to
Seattle they're running across 80 and then
they're going up north on 82 to 84 or what you know they're breaking up over
an organ and go in a different direction or they're breaking up there and staying
on 80 and going to California that's just the way it works there there's
there maybe should be some way to regulate that and I don't mean by by a
standpoint of of the government should regulate anything I just mean as a
standpoint of common sense right because it's with everyone running 80 and the
majority of everyone that's running 80 being in a training company or a
training capacity or a learning capacity it will always keep 80 over overburdened
with trucks so there is no parking in bad weather because of that reason I
don't see there's anything we can do about it rigged really but some common
sense needs to come into play somewhere in there because 80 is just I call it
the crashing ground from from Pennsylvania you know like if you're
going to Philadelphia is crashing ground Wyoming is a crashing
ground and that's that's the only thing in my head that I can figure out because
I've worked at some of these training companies training people and they would
always tell you you you you can't run here you can't run there we need you to
go this away or we need you go that way we'll pay you to go this away just not
to go across 94 I don't think that's the right
way to do it at all but it is the self-serving way that humans do things
we take care of what is best for us we don't care about the whole not me and
you me and you care about the whole we would like to see things done
differently but we we're very small cogs in a giant wheel just runs us over so
that's what happens on 80 since you're a small cog in a big wheel you either get
runned over forced off the road or bumped off the road now I've also had
comments about why do you do this or why do you do that you know like when I'm
running on a tee I run off the snow or try try to run to the left of everyone I
don't want to pass everyone not at all but at 28 miles an hour when you could
be going 35 or 40 a lot of times you those drivers that are you know that
they're just packed up together one after the other so you either have to
run behind them at a very slow pace it's not conducted for fuel economy or safety
or anything money is always first isn't it or you pass them which makes more
danger for the whole situation
whoa that floor heater was cooking me out of here I was wondering why I was
getting all hot and that's why Haiti's a rough road to run and it's not gonna
change in my opinion pass with care stop when you have to if you're not
comfortable you should stop but if I am comfortable I will truck being
comfortable doesn't mean that you're not afraid and have respect for the road
fear is respect so if you have people say that oh if you're scared you
shouldn't do this you have to advance your abilities also and part of that is
facing your fears if you always are not progressing in your industry then you
should park your truck but if you're always parking your truck
you can't ever progress but that's why everyone runs i-80 and that's why it's a
mess it's not these driver's fault generally they're told to do what to do
catch you guys later y'all be safe on i-80