its too bad but that's a pretty common view out there today mike and it sucks. your thinking straight with the wasted time especially if you are paid by the trip, paid by the hour you might as well read a book as you had to be somewhere anyway, but they couldn't pay you enough for the frustration factor. back in the day the wrecker would just pull everything off the hi-way and they would figure it out from there, today everything is an investigation and if there is any fuel split the m.o.e. is evolved. too bad bud but i can't seeing it getting any better out there any time soon especially around the trenton, cobourg areas for some reason.
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Two weeks ago, on our way back from Edmonton, we came by way of Montana and Wyoming through Nebraska. The entire tip through the US was on 80MPH freeways, but for part of two days we drove through a blizzard and never got over 40MPH and most times were around 25MPH. The constant in this was being passed by transports and buses travelling the 80MPH with visibility never better then a couple of hundred feet. The first afternoon we passed about 35 transports in the median. I guess they didn't make their hours. We all have or had a living to make. but I'm sure extraction from the median and 3 feet of snow costs more then this weeks pay check. About the buses, the liability if they go off the road with a load of passengers must be insane.
On another note, when we got to Lincoln Nebraska, the museum at Speedway was closed. I been through it three times but can never get enough.
its too bad but that's a pretty common view out there today mike and it sucks. your thinking straight with the wasted time especially if you are paid by the trip, paid by the hour you might as well read a book as you had to be somewhere anyway, but they couldn't pay you enough for the frustration factor. back in the day the wrecker would just pull everything off the hi-way and they would figure it out from there, today everything is an investigation and if there is any fuel split the m.o.e. is evolved. too bad bud but i can't seeing it getting any better out there any time soon especially around the trenton, cobourg areas for some reason.
This was just east of Kingston, on my way to Lakefield. I stepped out of the truck and found the roads ice covered. By Napanee roads were just wet, by Desoronto and beyond roads were dry.
Thursday night I went to Fowlers Corners, going up Hwy 30 was clear, by the time I got back just south of Campbellford the roads were snow covered. The 401 was a crawl, slipping and sliding just to get on the highway.
Then there was the cowboy who decided we're all going too slow and starts calling us names. The upside was I made it through there before the wreck that night.
yea, lol. those cowboys have been out there since they put about the 3rd or 4th c-b in a truck. thinking to myself, i might of come across on 2 lane rds when i seen the covered hwy 30, that's guessing you were empty. with the 1/2 loads on now that wouldn't be a decision, or maybe # 2, anything to stay off that potential parking lot. that's just my thinking anymore mike. if i am only going 2 or 3 exits anymore i won't get on it if there are to many clouds in the sky. it's a mess out there today even if it is just raining let alone snow, not including freezing rain, it goes to # 1. i use to take the odd trip into toronto and down to the hamilton area when my driver was off but not no more. if i can't get someone to go i give it all to erb trans to do.
i've been keeping an eye out for you around here every time i see a gas train, i will let you know if you are styling. lol almost forgot, i seen my first robin yesterday and a bunch of starling's licking up the bird feeder, lmao. we are getting closer to the lawnmowers. shiny side up driver.
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"if you are not the lead dog, the view is all the same"
Two weeks ago, on our way back from Edmonton, we came by way of Montana and Wyoming through Nebraska. The entire tip through the US was on 80MPH freeways, but for part of two days we drove through a blizzard and never got over 40MPH and most times were around 25MPH. The constant in this was being passed by transports and buses travelling the 80MPH with visibility never better then a couple of hundred feet. The first afternoon we passed about 35 transports in the median. I guess they didn't make their hours. We all have or had a living to make. but I'm sure extraction from the median and 3 feet of snow costs more then this weeks pay check. About the buses, the liability if they go off the road with a load of passengers must be insane.
On another note, when we got to Lincoln Nebraska, the museum at Speedway was closed. I been through it three times but can never get enough.
Warren
i'm getting tired just thinking about driving that trip warren, not no more for me especially this time of year. your right about the insurance fiasco if a bus screwed up at those speeds in those conditions, wow. the computer tells all.
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