True but that’s kind of hard to judge in the areas with lake effect snow squalls. Clear blue sky one second and absolute white out the next like flipping a switch. Personally I just avoid the highway most of the time and that’s especially true of 94.
There are a lot of contributing factors.
My uncle pointed out something that I hadn’t thought of. When he started driving truck, they all used the CB radios and talked back and forth with other drivers in the area. Today CB usage is nearly non existent. Rather than talking to other nearby drivers, truck drivers are on the phone talking to home, to another driver a thousand miles away etc. The early warning system is gone.
Grew up in Sapulpa OK, near Tulsa. I remember being 16 and driving to school on icy roads. I haven’t lived there since 1973, I do not remember how to drive on ice! So I don’t.
“The early warning system is gone.”
Yes, but the technology is WAY ADVANCED now. It doesn’t take much for a cell phone tower to see a build-up of stationary pings in a location that otherwise shouldn’t have it, or even just a stopped car up ahead...and perhaps warn on-coming drivers.
...and that’s just a start as to what could be done.
I am not so certain that Citizen’s Band is virtually non-existant... I mean they are still selling CB radio sets at all the truckstops. I grew up within radio range of 2 truckstops... was actually listening the night of the big gas explosion in Edison NJ which was 50 miles away and as the truckers crested the grade on the interstate, you shoulda heard the chatter of the eastbounds... everyone was saying it was everything from an atom bomb to a plane crash.