Posted on 01/12/2017 10:24:21 AM PST by Baynative
My thoughts exactly, nerves of steal, didn't panic, excellent training by all involved.
Donner Pass should be a clue.
Similar story: Early 80’s, 76 3/4 ton Suburban 4X4, floor shifter with granny gears, lifted with 36” snow tires, winch. Start of Blue canyon, CHP check point, officer asked me if I would lead the last group over Donner before they closed the road. 5mph, whippers on high, 4 wheeling, stopping every 10 minutes to clear the glass, no snow tracks, drove using the snow markers on the side of the highway. Hands hurt for three days after that little trip.
There could be that instance. But I think that everyone who travels a lot saw this coming since Tuesday of last week. I have gone between Tahoe and Sacramento a number of times and that pass is not something that you go at without looking at the weather and road conditions. There are pull offs in Truckee that he could have used with doubles.
I am not a big fan of doubles on winter roads and that is the truck lines’ decision that brings that about.
FedX never really has had a very good safety record . . I see that at least they are consistent ! Didn’t see a UPS vehicle in sight !!
Snoot ;o)
The driver did an outstanding job of extricating himself from a very bad situation, regardless of what did or didn’t put him in that position to begin with. I guess that’s how I’d view the matter.
It’s easy to get disoriented driving in deep fresh snow, especially at night. Good thing you had a vehicle equipped for it, and that the road was marked for the conditions.
That or Trump...works pretty good!!
BLACK ICE MATTERS
He was calling for a corner wagon
Don’t you be making fun of #BLM (Black Lies Murder)!!!
That was 30 some years ago. Would I do it again? Not in a million years. At my age, camping out is a hotel with no room service......
I've only driven eastbound from Truckee in the late spring and summer, and it's a scary ride.
Outstanding effort by all!
I would agree. Even if he wishes that he had not been there for whatever reason, the skill set needed to get off that portion of the pass was very tough.
FedEx, and others sending out doubles in the winter, put the driver in a terrible position.
In my youth, I was ran an division of a manufacturing operation and had the shipping and traffic departments under my purview among others. I had a traffic manager junior to me and we had about 13 tractors, 20-24 drivers and about 18 trailers as I recall. We avoided even running our trucks “bobtail” in any condition due to stability issues on wet roads or snowy roads.
As we used flatbed trailers for hauling steel components the issue of doubles was never there but we felt that drivers needed to be able to maximize their hauls and income without a dispatcher putting them in a box. We tracked dispatch times to allow arrival for unloading based upon the distance.
Especially since our Governor stated that non essential personnel should stay home and off the roads......
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