What is the difference between being shoved behind the wheel during training while the trainer goes to sleep and takes all your mileage pay while you rake in $250 per week for 8 weeks.

You can learn a lot by reading up on it and asking questions, I think Steve is doing well for a compujockey morphed into a truck driver.

 

Wouldn't be funny if the whole thing was a scam?

I think that's the one I got him into. First exit inside the state line on 287 south then a little way south on 17. I made a phone call and they said "We have looooots of parking" so that's where I sent him. He's parked. Thanks for the help.

 

I don't know how Steve fared in Denver, but running in snow and ice can be challenging, to say the least. Even seasoned drivers can have difficulties with conditions such as that in Denver recently. The best thing to do in that type of weather is to avoid it if possible. I usually go around conditions such as that in Colorado when I can. There is no need to tempt fate. If I need to travel in that type of weather it is not something that I enjoy. However, sometimes it is necessary to get the job done.

On another note, I think yoopr has been unfairly targeting or blamed for things he hasn't done. While yoopr deleted a couple of Steve's posts, other moderators got involved with the other deletions or edits. That is the job of a moderator. Much of this seemed to start with the "armed civilians in Iraq" debate. Yoopr has been there and should know how things are done in that area. I do recall something being on TV not too long ago about this issue. Some civilian drivers were abandoned by their military escorts after they were ambushed in Iraq. The concerns were about the abandonment and the fact the drivers were not allowed to carry arms for defensive purposes. They narrowly escaped with their lives.

 

I feel good about my "winter driving", but when your out there with everyone else it can get hairball really quick and I don't do well when I have no control over the jackass sliding into me (lol). I also don't miss freezing my butt off while chaining up, or sitting because the road is closed. If I was running OTR you can bet I'd be avoiding all the bad areas like the plauge and running the southern routes as much as I could :wink:

 

Floored, when I run the left coast I usually take I-40. But, when bad weather sets in and there is heavy snow expected, I will often drop down on I-10 until I can get around the bad weather. The extra few miles isn't worth the aggravation dealing with the crazy people on the snow and ice. The same thing with I-80. If there is a chance that Donner's will be hit with heavy snow, I will drop down to I-40. Most of the time I-40 isn't so bad that you can't travel without a lot of problems.

 

Here in the West it is a different world... We have real mountains and real mountain passes that those of us run week in week out. But the BBR's out there do not care to listen to those that actually have a clue. Maybe our friend Steve will get a load that runs him I-5 N down the Grapevine then down the Siskyous, or Cabbage, or 90 thru Idaho and the Fourth of July pass, I could go on and on....

I have run these every week for the past 7 years, and I know there are others who have run these passes a lot longer than I have and know more.... 8)

 

Even the most seasoned veteran driver gets "hairy" in weather situations, and Steve tried to play it off like it was a walk in the park. I think that's where alot of problems with him lie.

I've run all those mountain passes, dry weather of course, I've done the Rockies 3 times this year in the winter and they are nothing to be taken lightly even on the dryest, sunniest day. He's going to learn his lesson the hard way, and I honestly hope someone catches it when it happens adn get pictures.

 

Some ppl just want to see other ppl fail.... :shock: :sad:

 

Tfmotors, you are right about the Rockies. It can get really nasty quickly in winter. Some roads out west can be really deceptive as to the dangers, until it is too late. I never deliberately run into a snow or ice storm, if it can be avoided. I have driven in about every type of weather imaginable, but I never take chances unnecessarily. I have seen too many who have met their maker by being careless.

 

Not out to see someone fail, I'm just saying...the guy is being an idiot and careless to the wellbeing of others around him. He's going to end up killing someone else around him, or himself...if it came down to it, I would hope to God he picks the lesser of the two evils and takes himself out. Again, I'm not being mean, hateful, or negative...apparently you've never been in that kind of weather, or else you'd have respect for it, something Steve apparently does NOT. Willngly taking loads into that mess, and it's not b/c he's such a great driver, or b/c he's a fearless entreprenuer (sp?). He's an idiot, and needs to learn when enough is enough, and when it's best to take his resource he has at home, and use it to make money, until the weather clears up and is safe for him to be running again.