At Least 1 Dead, 33 Hurt In I-35 Pileup - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City

 

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Not only slow down....but turn on your marker lights!! Turn on your flashers!! Make yourself as visible as possible!!

 

Turn on your lights?!?!?! Seriously?!??

Just kidding of course. It drives me nuts when I see idiots driving through fog, snow, etc with no lights on whatsoever.

 

Not just slow down for the fog but for possible ice when it's foggy and below 32 degrees.

 

That's the one thing I will say for the trailers lit up with LEDs. They may not melt the snow off the lenses, but in fog, rain, or snow, they sure are visible. They shine through about 3 times better than conventional bulbs. But, when there is snow on the road, you have to make 3 times as sure that you keep the snow off of them.

 

remember this thread..?
http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/n...ender-fog.html

 

I never knew fog freezes until I started driving big trucks.

 

And it's a hell of an eye opening experience when you *DO* find it out.

 

Nobody around here realizes that little tidbit yet...........I was doing 35 about a week ago and getting run over by folks still running 60+ even though it was foggy and 27 degrees outside.

 

It takes a bit of time for the cold air to absorb the temperature from the road surface. So quite often, below the Mason/Dixon Line, cold temps and fog that freezes will freeze to the windshield, but the ground is too warm for it to form ice. 4-wheelers get away with it quite well, until they hit a bridge. Then, many of them discover that no bridge is wide enough for them.:eek2:

If daytime temps are above freezing, but when the sun goes down... flip a coin. Maybe the surface of the road is frozen, maybe it's not. If daytime temps are close to freezing, a careless move at sunset can be a real eye-opening experience.:eek2:

Anytime fog settles on your windshield, and you have to use the wipers, it's settling on the road too. I've also had rain coming down with temps outside at 27 F. Took 5 hours for a service truck to come 18 miles to change my valve stems on the trailer.

And, for those of you that do listen to the CB, in freezing rain, you'll hear someone saying: "WE'RE PUTTING UP A SPRAY, WE'RE OK." Don't take their word for it. Look at the road surface. If you are able to see tire tread patterns in the water, there's ice there too. Chances are, you have a layer of water that has not frozen yet, on top of a layer of ice. I've heard more than one guy preaching that crap, only to get the surprise of his life. It can be a surface that walking on it, you'll have a problem keeping your feet under you.