Well i know this YANKEE can drive in the snow , last time i was down in your fair state when ya'll got hammered i was on a ugly huge oversized load move going across I40 , ain't never been across there before , the load did not stick out but was a tad high and it weighed a shade over 79000 . when i pulled out of the truck stop that morning AFTER getting the truck all washed up windows cleaned inside all vac'ed out the sun was shinning , twenty miles west of the truck stop the sun went away and rain started that quickly turned to freeing rain , now being and OLD truck driver and being from the lands of ice and snow i had enough Common sense to BACK out of it from the 65 MPH i was running down to 45 , Now this Local FOX in a caddy eskalaid (sp) with her fancy pearl white 4 wheel drive gave me the finger as she went screaming around me on a down hill grade coming up on a bridge , She lost it and spun into my lane and caught the bride with the right ft. and bounced bad across and hit the left rear bounced off that and got the guard rail with the left ft bounced off that and trashed the rt rear before spinning three times once again in my lane and ending up in the media , since i did not make contact with her and as i went on by i could see she was ok but probably setting in wet pants and maybe messy pants i did not try and stop on the down grade and kept on plugging along at my 45 MPH , now the freezing rain had turned to heavy snow like we get up here OFTEN and i kept up my pace . Then i came upon Blacks Mountain , now i have never been up Black's Mountain before and we now are running in a FOOT of snow so we must up our driving skills first off lock the rear ends up , next drop a couple gears to where you can hold speed at light throttle and if you loose traction be able to back out of it and have the power to regain speed when ya can . It was not long before i started coming up on cars and big trucks that had spun out and i had to use the whole road to weave thru the mess from the left guard rail to the side of the mountain letting up when needed and adding when i could FEEL traction , seventh over at between 35 to 45 , once i cleared the mess it was easy running and she walked the dog up over the top . east bound was at a dead stop at the top looking down . and they were backed up from berm to berm for 43 miles west . A couple east bounder yelled at me on the C B asking if the salt trucks were coming . Told them i had not seen a one , then one asked me HOW I MADE IT up over the top as they had not seen anybody in two hours . I lied to them and told them that i stopped at the bottom and locked in the ft. HUBS . I had nice running west bound for the next few hours as i was the only one moving i did not see another car or truck till i was well into Tenn. . This skill of driving on bad roads comes from years of hauling coal and making the drive to the old mines at 3 Am four hours before our state boys came out to play in the snow . Ya learned how to drive and empty semi coal bucket down the old two lanes with the steep hills and sharp curves and how to bring that load of coal back out of them hollers when there was a foot or two of snow . You either became a good coal hauler or ya became a dead coal hauler . You learned fast how to drive a 30-34000 lb truck empty across roads you could not see the road to a loaded truck weighing in at maybe 140000 lbs . You also had to lean how to drive your car or pick up when the roads leading to the big truck were snow covered and icy . So nope you can not drive like it is 80 degrees and sunny all the time , your driving skills must be of such and your COMMON SENSE and that for the most part with people has been on BACK ORDER for years just slow down space out and give the other guy some ROOM .
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