December 14, 2008

Is it summer yet?????

Today was amazing... Not amazing as in a nice summer drive through some beautiful part of the country. Instead it was an amazing day of fighting 40mph sidewinds, blowing snow, negative temps, and idiot drivers for over 600 miles... It's amazing how cold it is outside (-19) and people still drive around as if it was normal temps out. People still cut me off, people don't drive with their lights on, people still take their sweet ass time passing me and people still don't use their blinkers... HELLO!!!???? If it was nice and sunny out with dry roads I could stop pretty quick compared to now if you did something stupid in front of me... Now, I'm just going to plow into your family and jack knife for something that wasn't my fault. It amazes me how people can be so stupid... Anyways, heres some photos:

This was shot 10 minutes ago and it's still coming down... It's a blizzard now and my truck is shaking back and forth as if it was a earthquake...



This was taking about 30min ago... Now as I look out the window, the black asphalt is now covered completely by at least 3" of fresh snow.



This what it felt like for 600 miles today... My truck was leaning to the right from a easterly wind. Im used to the truck leaning from all my trips across nebraska, but today I actually twice thought I was going to roll. My super light load (11k) and really strong winds played games with me all day.




Check the flag...



Woohoo!!! Blowing snow whiteout!!! not.



Deep Concentration trying to avoid soccer moms heading to starbucks.




Now wouldn't you think to yourself that it's icy out, snowing, and the trucks must be driving 35mph for a reason? Not this guy, along with countless other dumbass's who decided to pass us and then end up in the ditch... hahahaha - Taken in Iowa two weeks ago.


I-70 eastbound over loveland pass in Vail, CO yesterday.




I-70 eastbound through the Colorado River Canyon which is one of my favorite insterstate sections in the whole country...




Who would of thought that two days ago is was driving through nice weather in Utah... Absolutely beautiful.







Welcome to my office.



Climbing loveland pass with the diff's locked and keeping the RPM's up so that I don't spin out.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG I don't miss that stuff at all. We still get it here in SLC, but Bleah! Glad you're OK and safe and still having a great attitude. You sure are getting some great experience tho'. Donners and Loveland Pass terrify me :(

Chris

Anonymous said...

Great pictures mate.
Drive safe.

Unknown said...

It's funny how quickly you forget how bad winter driving is until it comes right back and slaps you in the face like it did this weekend.

But as we say, that's what makes trucking an adventure!

Keep it safe

J.T. said...

Enjoy your blog. Wished you updated more often. You have some awesome video and pics. Be carefull with the pics you use, the one with the seatbelt buckle hanging up behind you might not be the best to post.

Like you comments on us 4 wheeler types. I have come to appreciate what you guys put up with by reading your blog along with others.

Keep it between the lines.

J.T.
Peoria, AZ

Unknown said...

interesting blog...good job! - you might check out these two other trucker blogs - be safe out there.

vgrumpy
acourtesyflush.blogspot.com
lifeontheroad.com

Anonymous said...

um, were u concentrating so hard on not running into any soccer moms that you forgot to put on your seatbelt? or was that a zen thing as part of your pretrip?

stay warm and safe out there chris. and thanks for doing what you do.

bernie said...

chains,lol

Anonymous said...

in his profile picin the upper right hand corner he doesnt have hisseat-belt on neither...might be a bad habit to try to break

 
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