Mile High wrote:
smkettner wrote:
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.
No you don't get it CA - 35 is way too slow on even the snowy roads - and the worst thing that can happen to you is to follow the plow because your vehicle is getting the fresh Magnesium Chloride that plow is spitting out the back, destroying the finish on the front of your vehicle, even at 2 miles behind the plow. The best place to be in a Colorado snow is with the blue light in your rear view mirror fading away.
You folks have your own issues to worry about - like those Kamikaze Café Racers that use the white line as a speedway between cars. Jeezoots - I just came back from there and that hazard would keep me in my lane for sure, regardless of the speed of the guy in front of me.
Well safe speed on snow depends on the condition of the snow and how much traffic there is, and what you are driving.
I have driven as fast as 70 on snow on a divided interstate in Colorado with almost zero traffic going my way.
In the picture below we were going 45+/- on Oregon 26 coming home from the coast in January. This was what I considered a safe following distance pulling our 28' 5er.
