Bruce Brown wrote:
Mile High wrote:
yep - one truck going 1 mph slower but they are both maxed, so the faster one pulls out to pass the slower one and we all wait. I can only see it getting worse than it is now.
Exactly - and we see it all the time. :S
And now in NYS they've gone to running snow plows in tandem in the Interstate too - at 35 MPH max. How long do you think it takes that rolling roadblock to start? Worse yet, how safe do you think having that many cars bunched up on winter roads is?
The state would never admit it, but I know this area very, very well. It's very rural and traffic flow is light. There is not a chance this ever would have happened unless the stupid tandem plows had traffic stacked up. There just it's that kind of traffic flow.
This happened in the north bound lane, we were traveling in the south bound lane without issue. The southbound lane wasn't being plowed and traffic wasn't stacked up. Funny how that works...
30 cars & 4 tractor trailers pile up
How fast do you expect to drive in the snow? At 35 MPH those plows would probably be pulling away from me.
No need to bunch up when driving slow but most drives still do. The reason there were not 35 vehicles involved was because the 35th actually had to proper following distance for speed and conditions.
