Umm you plow the areas where there are no trucks?

LOL I've grown up all my life in snow.. seen everything from a dusting to 48 inches.. plowed snow off and on in the mobile home park my dad runs. HIgh winds, blowing snow, all that crap.. best set up I have seen used to clear roads is <enter> trucks lined up one right behind the other just off set a bit, all the way across the road/freeway. so the first truck/front end loader cuts the path, next one widens it, next one goes wider yet, and so on. clearing the road in one solid sweep.

It works well. More states need to plow this way. So often when I have been out west and down southwest they get snow and try to keep a road open by running a single plow down a road once in a while to keep a lane open. The drifting snow just closes the lane back off as fast as they open it. If they push it all the way off the road in a group it keeps the roads open far longer allowing them to cover more ground.. But hey... What do I know, I'm just a truck driver.

Nendail

 

That is the echelon plowing ...yoopr is talking about. It is the safest and most efficient means of clearing a Highway road....but it is not safe to try and pass them. and this makes some driver's angry. Some will even go to the extent to prove how dangerous it is to pass. :roll:

It amazes me how some people drive on drifted icy roads. I hate when the road is icy...and I am down to 40 mph...yet it never fails...some 4-wheeler will pass me and merge back infront of me no more than a car length. Why do they do that? Should I give them a 40-ton enema? Is that what they are wishing? :?

 

best set up I have seen used to clear roads is <enter> trucks lined up one right behind the other just off set a bit, all the way across the road/freeway. so the first truck/front end loader cuts the path, next one widens it, next one goes wider yet, and so on. clearing the road in one solid sweep.


Which is what I said.echelon plowing

 

As I was driving through Colorado last week I was deliberately trying to use my weight to cut into the mess and create more of a dry path for everyone else to follow. Sometimes getting out into the snow and plowing through it just to get rid of it. Believe me, I was loaded very heavy with both loads and had no problem at all staying on the road.

 

You done good for a Texan :P

 

Hey!!! I resemble that remark. 8)

 

I ain't a Texan! I'm a southerner d&mmit! I only live in Texas because the house is inherited and paid for. But, yeah, after four years of driving I'm still just a wet-behind-the-ears rookie, but I try to do what I can. If I was loaded light, believe me, I wouldn't take such chances! But I'd still be moving!

 

ok then-You done good for a Cracker lmao

 

Ooohhh... Damn Yank! :wink: 8)

 

Good question...no one has heard from him since page 2.
Some say he only made it to Nevada.

He may have been spotted at a Cat House. :P