I like to just give the wheel a quick "shake" to see whether my rubbers are hitting the road.... or skimming over ice (spray or not.) :lol: Of course, I do this with the cruise OFF, and at a speed that I can control the vehicle. This way, I don't have to stop (or slide into a ditch) thereby giving me the time to poke holes with my penknife. I do my homework, and know whether the roads in the area I'm approaching had WATER (rain, freezing rain) on them before they froze solid and built up a base of snow. This makes all the difference. Snow on a DRY road is not much of a problem for those of US who have lived in the "arid" states west of the Ole Miss. Black Ice (or any of the "sporadic" ice sheets WINDY covered due to "shadowing" of the roadway,) are dangerous, but should be expected WITHIN the knowledge of the road surface "per se."

Hobo...

Slick roads still give you the "shakes", I see.....:lol:

http://youtu.be/dcMSTmoNd_0

Well, I sure hope that was not you with the camera, Mr. Ford. I see where two drivers were doing something very wrong. First of all, the driver with the camera went out into the left lane without "taking a peek" first. Stick your nose just over the line and see if there's anything coming. If yes, get back on your own side and back off.

And, the rock bucket that passed the salt shaker was also dead wrong in passing while there was oncoming traffic.

Outside of that, excellent video, Mr Ford.:thumbsup:

Watched the video above and I don't know if it's comforting or scary, but it appears they have idiots in Russia too! The two guys in the filming vehicle are speaking what I think to be Russian (it might be Polish, Ukrainian,
Czech). I've been through Kiev, Ukraine a couple of times and they do have some awfully crazy drivers there; my father-in-law is one of them!

So I'm reading this thread and thinking I should post a great video I saw the other day. You beat me to it MrFord.

Wow. I wonder if everyone's sphincter muscles have relaxed yet.

Yeah wasn't me Wind. They sounded like Eastern European, with the way they seemed to laugh it off, sounded like Russians. Country, they have idiot drivers all over the world. In Turkey it's not uncommon to see the semi's going the wrong way on what is their Interstates. Or the Japanese who smashed what, 8 Ferrari's, a couple of Lambo's and some other high priced supercar in a single crash the other week in rainy weather in the hills outside of Tokyo. Might have been a secret filming of "Fast and Furious" though.

I can't believe he got that trailer to dance back over just enough to miss the camera, wonder if he lost it after he passed the camera. He was passing a plow truck, idiot, you never pass a plow truck unless your looking to wreck.

Michigan, Top Gear UK sent me this Friday morning and I remembered this thread yesterday afternoon.

I would love to know if he fully recovered that trailer, too. It did seem as though he was getting ahead of it. If he had hit the brakes he would probably have gotten the truck that pulled over along with the camera truck.

I've seen a couple of drivers that managed to bring the trailer back in behind them, somehow. A Werner driver in MN had the trailer knocking down every reflector post along I-35 for about a quarter mile, and then it straightened back up again. And, in Indiana, in high wind, a driver had the trailer almost at a right-angle to the tractor. When he got into some trees, the trailer went back behind him. I still don't know how the wind didn't tip the trailer over.

I think the trailer bounced off the guard rail with exactly the right amount of force.