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Important Winter Driving Tip #1
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From: Baileyton, TN
The large sign is VERY necessary - I have seen cars loose control when hit by the blast of snow from the right hand side of the plow.. People individually are fine when you meet them, it is just when they are out by themselves that they get stupid. 
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Theo
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Up here in Michigan we pass them anyway we can- never heard of that rule unless they are talking about the shoulder.
Sometimes it gets a little scary when your passing and you can't see 6 inches out of the windshield cause of the snow being kicked up but that is just a sign that you need to step on the gas.
Sometimes it gets a little scary when your passing and you can't see 6 inches out of the windshield cause of the snow being kicked up but that is just a sign that you need to step on the gas.
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From: Atlanta GA
Ever watch someone try to pass a row of snowplows, especially in the breakdown lane. THEN they realize, hey, this unplowed and unsanded lane might be icy, as they slide off the shoulder and down the embackment.
You know why glass breakage is free in MA? Too many people like to tailgate and get road raged at sand trucks and try to pass them during snow storms. Then they find out not only do sand trucks give your windshield and paint a good blasting, but, the gravel that gets spit out can really ruin your day when you are ten feet off their bumper. Driving in a snow storm with a six inch hole in your windshield was been proved to put frost on your pumpkin.
You know why glass breakage is free in MA? Too many people like to tailgate and get road raged at sand trucks and try to pass them during snow storms. Then they find out not only do sand trucks give your windshield and paint a good blasting, but, the gravel that gets spit out can really ruin your day when you are ten feet off their bumper. Driving in a snow storm with a six inch hole in your windshield was been proved to put frost on your pumpkin.
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It must be a special sign for highway with concrete barrier in the middle.
The trucks here usually throw the snow left when in the left lane or right when in the right lane.
Then sometimes they team up 2 or three wide and stagger so that one picks up where the last truck left off- now that's real hard to pass when they do that...
The trucks here usually throw the snow left when in the left lane or right when in the right lane.
Then sometimes they team up 2 or three wide and stagger so that one picks up where the last truck left off- now that's real hard to pass when they do that...
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From: La Tech University, La
Umm...we don't so much as have plows around here.. on the rare occasion it snows....John Doe is out there on his John Deer with his farm plow clearing the roads.....or some military member who was stationed in Minot or Alaska or something and has a plow rig on their truck
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From: Montana Territory
Hmmm, this reminds me of the pass. At around 10,500 feet it commonly snows more than 6 feet at a time, too much to plow. MT - DOT runs a couple screw type snow throwers. They start up when the snow starts flying and they don't stop til the road is clear, which could be as many as three days later.
If you tried to pass one of those plows you would hit a thirty foot wall of snow.
There aren't any plows that throw or push to the left, that would put snow into oncoming traffic. They aren't that backwards, nto even in MN.
If you tried to pass one of those plows you would hit a thirty foot wall of snow.
There aren't any plows that throw or push to the left, that would put snow into oncoming traffic. They aren't that backwards, nto even in MN.
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From: Near Bloom, PA
Other Bower follows the plow truck to work since she slid backwards down the hill a couple years ago. She also put winter studs on her truck and a fridge in the back, the poor engine barely has enough to power it. (Hers is 2WD)
This thread hit a spot for me, as I've been trying to get into PennDOT as a heavy equipment operator. They are hiring plow drivers right now, but it seems you have to know the Buddy System to get in. My dad retired from PennDOT, he has some great stories about idiots who pass plow trucks. Usually the plow wins...I'm going to show him this picture, he'll love it.
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?
(obvious answer: in a Ford truck)
This thread hit a spot for me, as I've been trying to get into PennDOT as a heavy equipment operator. They are hiring plow drivers right now, but it seems you have to know the Buddy System to get in. My dad retired from PennDOT, he has some great stories about idiots who pass plow trucks. Usually the plow wins...I'm going to show him this picture, he'll love it.
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?
(obvious answer: in a Ford truck)
