Like I said, I'll just park and wait out an evening until the next morning...
or if it really looked like there was no other way around it...(stuck between two passes for the season...LOL... I'd throw 'em....I just wouldn't like it).

The real "purpose" they serve on my truck is for Looks(to CYA-have them in possession- 6pair)

Do you prefer to use just old fashion bunji straps or have you shelled out the $$$ for those fancy spider looking one piece bunji things?

 

I use bungies. One on the inside to keep the extra chain from hitting stuff and a couple on the outside just to keep them a bit snug.

I dont run the truck higher than third gear when the iron is hung so they dont need to be super tight, just snug.

 

Okay I have only been running solo for a month. And was just thinking that i have never been taught how to put chains on when to put chains on or anything like that. Only thing I have been told is to have them on the truck during the time chaining is. Why don't they teach you anything about chaining only thing I was told is "If you need chains park it" I have no problem with that but what if you are caught were you have to put them on and you don't know how.

 

And that just drives me crazy. Every....EVERY...student who comes to my school, summer or winter, is taught how to chain up a tractor, on all four drivers, including proper tightening, readjusting...and even how to put them away, so they are ready for the next time you use them.

Driving schools that do not do it are just not schools.

And in my school, when we take you into the mountains, we take you in the winter if at all possible, and hopefully it is snowing like a bastard and then we park you, make you chain and up the hill we go.

Anyone who told you that if you need chains to park the truck, should park his Driving Instructors License back in the box of Crackerjacks that he got it from.

 

You think that drives you crazy !!!

This time last year, I crested a steep icy hill and seen nothing but headlights in booth lanes on my way down...

Some trucker thought it would be nice to haul a load to Alaska...

Rather than spinning out in his lane,and chaining up, he thought he would spin down to pavement on the downhill side of the highway...

The other thing that drives me crazy is the slow pokes hauling light loads that are totaly in the way for heavy loads trying to run the hills... :evil:

This area is foothills, up and down, we must run the hills to make them, and somebody that is afraid of ice just drives too slow to follow !!!

I get sooo mad hitting the brakes uphill wieghing 60- 80,000lbs more than the Idiot in front of me... ARggg

Don't take a load for Alaska if your not a good trucker.... Please...

 

Well, Alaska is in the States, right? It cant be that much different than California, can it?? :roll:

 

Well...guess that counts for me....send a letter to Drumright, Ok and have mine revoked...I told all my Students to park the truck if it's that bad..

But, I also lost a Student one time....we were in Larado, Tx the middle of summer nothing better to do...waiting for a load....so I decided he'd learn to "throw chains".....which he didn't enjoy ...later wrote a letter begging to come back after he jumped ship....claimed " I tortured him".

 

I just had to chain up when going over Lookout Pass on I-90 and the chain removal area is at the bottom of the pass. I didn't think it was bad enough to use them going up, but sure was glad I had them going down the other side.

 

LOL...ain' the westside of Lookout fun?? :lol: :lol: :lol:

And just think..it's 100% better now than it was in 1977!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

Now now Rockie, cut us some slack. Some of us wackie Yankees only have the Bunny Hills like Donner and Cabbage rather than the Double Diamonds that you get in British Columbia.