Colorado B/S Thread

[Fred]

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Just a little snow downtown, total white out in Briargate. I think where Union turns east after Research Pkwy, that bend has to have the worst white outs.

If it were up to me, people would have to have special plates and licenses to drive in snow and weather. Test them in an old rear wheel drive beast with bias ply regular tires.

 

[Hypoid]

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If it were up to me, people would have to have special plates and licenses to drive in snow and weather. Test them in an old rear wheel drive beast with bias ply regular tires.

With a 3-on-the-tree!

 

[dirteexj94]

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[in4aride]

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With a 3-on-the-tree!

Ha. Talked to willie b on the radio about this the other morning. He didn't believe I was 29 and knew how to drive one.

 

[in4aride]

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Shoulda taken the. Truck.

 

[md21722]

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This. My 2.5 hours on 470 today was because Schneider was running super singles with no traction devices even though today all highways were under traction law. He jackknifed and ****ed it all up. Pissed.

Schneider is about the worst trucking company I've ever seen. From behind, I've seen them hit cars twice in the same week and neither car was doing anything wrong. But today's truckers, what can you say. Try driving I-40 between Albq., NM and Barstow & I-5 where most are just assholes. People openly talk shit about them at the truck stops. Drive 68 max, cut you off in the left lane, and then go 48 MPH up the grades because their buddy was doing 47 MPH in the right lane. There should be more laws that say if you can't or won't do the speed limit in the left lane don't be there.

 

[in4aride]

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Well I think there a lot worse out there for sure. And 68 would be a blessing. A lot of those big companies are 62 mph tops. Werner. May. Covenant. Swift. Most of them are sub 65 governed.
Glad most the trucks I run will do 82-83.
Left lane gang lol.

 

[in4aride]

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[1-tonxj]

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I've had trucks wide open and governed at 65...left lane is for passing if it's open and what"s in front of me is slower I'm using the passing lane to pass .the only time I've had issue is when the clown I'm passing realizes he's being passed then speeds up...which is against the law as the motor vehicle handbook states you are not permitted to increase your speed from the speed you were at when the passing started you can slow but not speed up basically if you wanted to do 70 you should have been paying attention not playing with your knob ,because now by law you need to wait to for pass to be completed and then you may do the same as long as it's inside the speed limit ...lol...nowhere in the motor vehicle handbook will you find a hammer lane you find a passing lane and it's max mph is the posted limit not what the boss set the limiter at it use of the lane only requires you to acquire it safely and be passing ...I only seem to use it when lease drivers are putt'n along at some retard slow speed...Prime may as well.walk from a-b.

 

[xj-grin]

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In 46 years in Colorado, I have never driven in conditions like yesterday in norther El Paso County... absolute total whiteout from Woodman north at 1pm yesterday. On 83 north of Powers (turns out it was closed... oops) I couldn't see the front of the hood, had no reference points to where the road was, let alone my northbound lanes... only stayed on the path due to multiple head-on wreckages in the center lanes. I just stayed to the right of them and crossed my fingers until I saw the trees. whew. F'n awful.

 

[YELLAHEEP]

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Yeah the wife was pissed off having to go to work yesterday morning in that storm. Gets to work and the boss..... who didn't show up...... called and said close up shop at 11am. She drove home shortly after 11am - 2 hrs from 33rd and Chambers to our place in Littleton. As is the norm with our SRT8 WK2, the felt lined fender wells grabbed all the slush and snow leaving the jeep with ZERO suspension travel. I hacked it all out of the fender wells last night in prep for her morning commute today.

Well, I've never experienced this before....... Before she left this morning, I hear her remote start the Jeep while she had breakfast. When she went to leave, I could hear the engine RPM's go up and down, pause, up and down..... several times. Then my cell phone rings, she needs me to come out because the Jeep won't move. Apparently the slush inside the wheels and around the brakes froze up solid on all 4 corners. The jeep simply would not move with her attempts. I got in it and had to put 3K rpm+ on the tach in reverse until "BANG!" and a sudden launch backwards. GAWD. I bashed it around the block to ensure all was working ok and sent her on her way.

She calls 20 min later complaining of "death wobble" at speeds over 40 mph. Told her there was likely lots of ice on the inside of the wheels throwing off the balance.

Every winter I get a reminder that this SRT8 wasn't designed for winter driving..... :laugh:

 

[md21722]

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Well I think there a lot worse out there for sure. And 68 would be a blessing. A lot of those big companies are 62 mph tops. Werner. May. Covenant. Swift. Most of them are sub 65 governed.
Glad most the trucks I run will do 82-83.
Left lane gang lol.

A blessing would be able to blow them up with a LAWS. They should be banned from the left lane if they can't do the speed limit, period. I only saw only trucker able to do 85 the entire trip. It ain't like the old days when night fell under a Nebraska sky and the truckers hammered down and did 90 MPH (back when the speed limit was still 65 there)....

 

[in4aride]

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A blessing would be able to blow them up with a LAWS. They should be banned from the left lane if they can't do the speed limit, period. I only saw only trucker able to do 85 the entire trip. It ain't like the old days when night fell under a Nebraska sky and the truckers hammered down and did 90 MPH (back when the speed limit was still 65 there)....

Haha. Should have Come up to NoCo man. Night shift was totally Sparta compared to the muppet show of days. 70 mph on dirt roads, chasing taillights through the dust and grabbin 18 for all she's worth on the highways.
Now with the slow down in the patch it's pretty calm and mild mannered.

But I hear ya. I'm still a noob in the driving world, but once I got s taste of how things really worked, I've always had an outlaw type mentality toward it. Make some money, grab a gear and let's go.

 

[1-tonxj]

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A blessing would be able to blow them up with a LAWS. They should be banned from the left lane if they can't do the speed limit, period. I only saw only trucker able to do 85 the entire trip. It ain't like the old days when night fell under a Nebraska sky and the truckers hammered down and did 90 MPH (back when the speed limit was still 65 there)....

Left lane is for passing that does not require one. to be going 75 just simply passing the slower traffic ..._85 is speeding in any state no limit faster than 80 exists and that is a very limited area , so once again left lane is passing and this means at a ...legal speed ...if you are over the posted limit say doing 85 in a 75 and rolling up on a truck doing 70. this is careless driving...lol...never ceases however the guys who drive the fastest on the interstate have the least overall driving skill in other words they are the steering wheel holders they commonly speak of only capable of holding the wheel going in a straight line ...forward.

The delusional driver is the one who thinks the left lane is his own personal express lane aka...hammer lane...instead of the passing lane it is .

Not hating just pointing out the folly of those who think the left lane is cv express lane.

 

[1-tonxj]

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Haha. Should have Come up to NoCo man. Night shift was totally Sparta compared to the muppet show of days. 70 mph on dirt roads, chasing taillights through the dust and grabbin 18 for all she's worth on the highways.
Now with the slow down in the patch it's pretty calm and mild mannered.

But I hear ya. I'm still a noob in the driving world, but once I got s taste of how things really worked, I've always had an outlaw type mentality toward it. Make some money, grab a gear and let's go.

Been driving for almost Two decades the outlook you describe Will cost you your career ...the folks who chatter about the hammer down days are usually the full of shit drivers who tell tall tales at the pickle park and check out lines at the truck stop about the dot and calling the federal Marshall...lol...use common sense when listening to these stories b/c cops have always wrote tickets for speeding so the 90mph bad boy stories
Of drivers hauling ass at 90 across the interstate without issue are for fictional entertainment only .

 

[in4aride]

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Squeaky clean license and inspection record. On paper I am always well within the confines of legality. But we weren't knocking back the money we were a year ago working 60 every week.
Yeah liars corners always have great stories, running 120 across Wyoming, hauling hanging meat, weighing 140k. Lol. I hear what you're saying. Most of what we run is private property where the faster we get through the more money everyone makes. So it got pretty ruthless. Plus we don't run 'those roads' unless we run a pilot out front checking for any boys trying to stir trouble.
Like I said. It's calm now with the slow down. But there was definitely some cowboy days.

 

[1-tonxj]

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I'm too lazy for oil field work...I like a clean cab floor ;-)

 

[md21722]

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This is all B.S. There is no reason for a truck driver to move over into the left lane when a vehicle is approaching doing 80 when said truck driver is only doing 50. They should wait for the vehicle to pass. Been driving for a long time and the 85-90 MPH is truth, if you don't believe it, warp back in your time machines to see for yourself. Back then I was in the right lane because those trucks were driving too fast for me. A truck moving in front of car doing the speed limit and makes them slow down 30 MPH is an asshole, pure and simple & that's why they get talked to at the truck stops by others. And if you go out to Virginia they post lengthy signs that basically say do the speed limit or don't be in the left lane. VA I-81 is the poster example of asshole truck drivers. Driven it more times than I care to remember. And you should check your facts, speed limit is 85 in certain limited areas of Texas.

 

[in4aride]

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I'm too lazy for oil field work...I like a clean cab floor ;-)

Oh man. It sucks soooooo bad. Every day I spend the first and last hour scrubbing the interior. Luckily that has gotten me an assigned truck vs slip seat but if a night guy gets in and trashes it I start all over. Some of these guys killlllll these trucks. It's sad.

 

[in4aride]

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This is all B.S. There is no reason for a truck driver to move over into the left lane when a vehicle is approaching doing 80 when said truck driver is only doing 50. They should wait for the vehicle to pass. Been driving for a long time and the 85-90 MPH is truth, if you don't believe it, warp back in your time machines to see for yourself. Back then I was in the right lane because those trucks were driving too fast for me. A truck moving in front of car doing the speed limit and makes them slow down 30 MPH is an asshole, pure and simple & that's why they get talked to at the truck stops by others. And if you go out to Virginia they post lengthy signs that basically say do the speed limit or don't be in the left lane. VA I-81 is the poster example of asshole truck drivers. Driven it more times than I care to remember.

Oh for sure. I agree 100%. Cars do it to trucks as well. They will be in a line of vehicles running 65-70 and you'll come up at 80 and they hop over in front because they don't want to be passed by a truck. I chill in the right as much as possible. Too many cops pick on the guys chillin in the left. Understandably.