winter is coming.
 

do you guys use fuel conditioner?

and here is what i have so far just incase:

air line antifreeze
jumper cables
a can of startyabastard (starting fluid)


am i missing anything?

I don't use fuel conditioner, just run the right fuel and pay attention.

Don't forget 2 spare fuel filters.

I use them sometimes, if its going below zero mostly.

Running the winter belt like I do the fuel is all pretreated.

Add these items

Warm clothes, if you have to work on something outside the truck

small propane torch, gets thing un froze quickly

new flashlight batteries

one of those yellow raincoats, the cheap kind wll do, in case you gotta lay down in the snow

50 bag of salt, keep it on the deck plate.

1 gallon jug of fuel to prime those 2 filters

I'll think of more.............

A spare pair of warm gloves, it sucks to lose one and not know it till ya need it.

tow chain lay it down on the ice (streached out) to get moving up that small incline when you used all your salt.

A 5 gallon bucket filled with small crushed stone for traction for when the chain trick didn't work.

Windshield juice and spare wiper blades (put the winter blades on now and save the old ones for spares)

A bottle or 2 of rubbing alcahol for brakelines and add to W/W juice to help lower the freezing point

Make sure you have WARM clothes and sleeping bag, if your truck breaks down you may not have ANY heat for awhile

i do go one of them raincoats. i do need a torch though.

i actually have a few bottles of heat that gets added to the washer fluid. where i stay its a huge open field over night. i'm not worried about heat much being i have my tripak. however, i do have a extra blanket and looking to find a decent priced -30 sleeping bag.

i like the tow chain trick. never heard it before. i do want to get a cheap pare of ski gloves just to have.

Or better take long nice vacation, and go somewhere warm... Just kidding, but it's really a good idea, if you can afford it. Winter is harsh for the truck and the driver, expenses is higher, and freight is low. If you don't have it already, get an "Espar" bunk heater, best thing after the sliced bread, will pay for itself in about a year.

Ya mean like you do?? ....................After all the winters you did in the old country, I figured one here would be a piece of cake.......LOL :-)

That Espar sure is nice tho.......

Jumper cables.......ya never know

Y'all didn't get the memo? Winter has been cancelled for this year on account of it's too much like work and it's just wrong to treat fingers and toes like that.

I will drink to that....!!

It is, but i still need a vacation, don't i?
I got a bit different memo, this winter is going to be very snowy!

i wish i could. yet my bank says diffrent. i'll just go from ohio to fl and back up to ny lol

i have a tripac so that makes my life so much easier.

I use an anti-gel when the conditions call for it. I operate primarily in the upper Midwest, so that is frequently during the winter. The time to wish you had is not when you are gelled up along the road. Even the best truckstop fueling locations can get some water in their fuel occasionally, and biodiesel, which is very often mixed in where I run, has a higher cloud and pour point than regular diesel. I learned years ago to not trust that a fuel supplier treated the fuel properly. They like to cut costs like anyone else. Buy your fuel conditioner by the case at supply outlets and avoid truck stop pricing. I keep heavy duty coveralls under the bunk, full insulated head gear, insulated pak boots, emergency heating pads, a couple of spare fuel filters with some fuel in a container in a frame rail side box to do the davco unit (which is rare since it is a heated unit), glad hand air hose to air up a tire if needed, and a wide selection of tools to handle most little things. I spec'd out full lockers in my drive axles with this truck to minimize having to get out and do something for traction except in the most extreme circumstances. When I flip 3 switches, all four hubs have full power on my drive axles. And I don't have those twisty cheap plastic air lines to hook up to glad hands. Real, straight, heavy duty air lines there that will not crack at the most inopportune time when it is -25F. Carrying a small shovel and some cat litter is a wise move to get traction if needed. Works better than salt, some times, which can just bore its way thru the ice and leave you still with little traction. Maybe a custom mix of salt and cat litter would work fine. Haven't tried that.