Wild icy night for a bus trip. (Video)

[Scott & Heather]

Sometimes we find ourselves driving in the craziest weather. We have stories. If you drive a bus, you'll enjoy watching my video:

https://youtu.be/htGRsC0jas8

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[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

I sure don't miss driving on ice and snow in that very cold weather.  It was about 74 degrees most of the way from Quartzsite to Anaheim when I drove home last week. 

[ol713]

   HI;
      If it were me, I would stay in the slow lane where most of the traffic is.
      Did that once going to Grand Rapids around Christimas.  Temps were around 17deg.
      Never forget that trip. Watched a pickup spin about 180deg in front of me on a
      bridge. Once is OK, but I don't care to do that again.
                                                Merle.

[Fred Mc]

Maybe its my advanced age but driving a 40000 lb vehicle under those conditions scares the sh$t out of me.

I grew up in Saskatchewan on the Canadian  prairies where driving conditions in the video were common in the winter time so I had lots of experience in driving in blowing snow and icy roads.

At the age of 30 I moved to the pacific coast where snow is a rarity and  icy driving conditions not common. But I was NEVER afraid to drive in those conditions when they came up.And to this day I don't put on snow tires in the winter even though they are reccomended as I consider myself(perhaps erroniously) an experience winter driver.

For a part of my driving life(10-15 years ago) I drove a 2 ton truck which exposed me to situations different that when driving a car or light truck-namely that when you drive a car   it is quite easy to correct any vehicle sliding thru steering but with a heavy vehicle once it starts to slide inertia causes it to continue to slide. In fact just last week a bus crashed on a local highway for exactly the reason I just illustrated-namely once it starts to slide it is difficult, if not impossible to correct. A dash cam video in an approaching vehicle showed the accident VERY clearly. Fortunatley the bus stayed upright and spun 360 deg into the median although one passenger was thrown thu the window.

Perhaps in Scott's video the bus is travelling a lot slower than it appears but I would be inclined to park it for a while.  Then again I am 45 year older than him so that may be a factor.

[Scott & Heather]

Merle,

Nope. In these particular conditions the lane that had the traffic (the slow lane) had a constant melt freeze cycle happening and was far more slick than the basically just snowy fast (left) lane which still had excellent grip. I few brake checks confirmed this.


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[muldoonman]

Don't get much of that in Central Texas but every once and awhile. People running over everything and everybody. Not good driving weather for sure, there. Take care of yourself and that beautiful Family and stay safe.

[bobofthenorth]

Sometimes we find ourselves driving in the craziest weather. We have stories. If you drive a bus, you'll enjoy watching my video:
https://youtu.be/htGRsC0jas8

Cute but I'm sorry, as far as winter driving goes that's amateur hour.   

This is at the bottom end of the famous Highway to Hell earlier this week https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/1154051139906/

If you look carefully at one point you can see one of the students gets chucked out the window and narrowly avoids getting turned into roadkill by a passing semi.  This occurred at the lower end of the Coq - traffic usually moves right along on this section.  I wouldn't want to get chucked out a bus window anywhere but if I had to pick a spot on the Coq to get ejected this definitely wouldn't be it.  The kid was really lucky.  There's about 60 miles of the Coquihalla that can and does go from dry to chain up to closed in less than 24 hours.  When the going is good they bump the speed limit up to 120 km but at times 20 km is too fast.

[Scott & Heather]

Bob, crazy you're talking about the Coq. I've been devouring the highway to hell Netflix tv series!!! Love it! That's an insane hwy


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[bobofthenorth]

Its been very much in my mind this winter.  One of my boys has a little trucking company and one of their regular runs is hauling butane from Medicine Hat to the north shore in Vancouver.  I don't think they even go once a week but if the weather is iffy he likes to take the trip himself.  A couple of weeks ago his co-driver was another of my sons and they hit some seriously bad weather.  I spent the night watching highway cams and waiting to hear from them.  I've been through there many times myself but I try to wait for good weather.

[belfert]

In early October 2009 we drove through a snow and ice storm between Salt Lake City and Rock Springs, Wyoming.  That was some real white knuckle driving in the bus.  We were driving at no more than 25 MPH and the air brakes would just cause the bus to slide.  We had to shift down to 2nd or 3rd gear and use the Jake brake to brake.  We drove by multiple semis rolled over.

We probably should have just stopped, but one of the guys was worried about being stuck there if we stopped.  He later claimed we would have been stuck for two to three days had we stopped.

[sledhead]

In the winter at home when I am there we get lots of snow and ice and my daily driver is a 2015 chevy colorado 1 wheel peal 6 speed standard pick up .It has anti spin that helps the 1 wheel peal get out of the snow but I hate the anti sway crap it makes it very hard to play on the back roads as it applies the brakes to stop it from happening . you can turn it off sum what but after 40 kmh ( 25 mph ) it turns back on

a lot lighter then the coach

yes a lot of the time when it is cold and crappy out it is better to get out of the sheep lane (slow lane ) because there is more snow in the fast lane for control and less black ice

Dave

[flynbanjo]

Looks like it is time to point the bus south!