01-05-2024 Winslow, AR - Snow Difficult Travel w SOT
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2024
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A burst of heavy snow this morning caused some difficult driving conditions. Numerous 18 wheelers became stuck in the slippery hills of I-49 south of Fayetteville. Several vehicles were also stuck and off the road on Hwy 71 near Winslow. Northbound traffic was stopped for hours in I-49 due to a multi truck accident on one of the tall bridges. Commuter Wilbert Alfonzo was trying to get to work in Northwest Arkansas but he became stuck in the interstate backup after conditions deteriorated.
if it's that bad already, park it..
amen
A don't drive in the snow. The load can wait and if the company doesn't like it there are 100 other places i can work at next week.
Even if you are successfully driving in heavy winter weather you're going 30mph stressed out all day. It's not the way. Take a snow day like when you were a kid.
@@TheIrishRushinI used to tell you I would drive in a foot of snow back in the day but this is 2023 after 30 years of this bullshit and the drivers out here and these automatic trucks are worthless in snow and ice I am done. I take a snow day. If it was a bad winter this year I would go ahead and just take the rest of the winter off piss on it.
@@TheIrishRushindude back of the day I was driving a foot of snow when trucks were heavier they were manuals better drivers. Today I would just park it. If I was thinking that this was going to be a hard snow year I do like I did last year take off the whole freaking winter.
Looks like they followed your advise - involuntarily , and for some reason , I can't figure out why it's OK for them to do it now , but not before they wreck their trucks and cars . It's like they have never seen this scenario before in their lives , and are invincible to the weather that was forecast .
Those drone shots showing the drop from the bridge. 🥶🥶🥶
Thank god I stopped trucking OTR on December 28th, 2023. I left right on time before the snowstorms began. It doesn't make sense to get paid by the miles when due to harsh conditions, you either have to shut down or slow down, and neither choice makes any money.
Be safe everyone
Love it, given that I'm not out in it. Still not used to drone flights, tho, as I still try to grab the arm of my chair to brace for impact.
Love those drone shots!! 👍👍
This is now the new normal out here. Many US commercial truck drivers are foreign to the US, few speak or read English, and many have never seen snow, much less driven in it. And right now, the few of us left out here that have a clue, are preparing to be replaced by one of the millions of foreigners streaming across our Southern Border. The authorities have already devised a scheme to make getting a CDL (Commercial Driver License) even easier than it is, more or less giving the testee the answers to the test. Make sure your car insurance is up to snuff folks, and try your best to avoid any contact with any commercial vehicle, because you do not know who or what is behind the wheel. You think they care about you and or your safety? Don't be a fool.
100% I agree with you, thanks
Hell yeah brother, spread this around make my job more secure lmao
Talk radio derangement. Trump culty 100%. Semi literate, half witted rednacks will remain to be trucking backbone. Immigrants generally move up anf out of the otr jobs, rednacks stay until employer' boot kicks them in the arse.
They really dumbed it down with these automatic trucks.I agree with you,I remember when you had to be skilled to operate these trucks, were going to have a bunch of homeless immigrants flying up and down our interstates.
@@thomasmehall5742They, the FMCSA is changing the rules as I type to eliminate older drivers, with new medical qualifications, and God only knows what else to take away our CDLs... Illegals need homes, and food, trucking is the answer, trucking fulfills the need.
Our state of Arkansas where I live does not salt the roads so you're on your own. No excuse since they have had a budget surplus in the last few years. We've had major highways left in a state of solid ice for days until it got warm enough to melt it. The politicians and Gov Sanders simply don't care. Fortunately the temps will rise Saturday to melt all of this.
You're absolutely full of shit. Here in Arkansas, a salt brine solution is used prior to snow storms. Stop lying and trying to politicize this you left wing jackass.
Seriously? You do realize this goes as far back as I can remember and I’m 60yo. And as a x country truck driver I can tell you we Arkansas folk ain’t alone.
This part of the country is sometimes worse than up north because they don't do anything for it...
Chains, winter tyres?!
They don't salt the roads so where's your tax money going
that was better than the news thanks for sharing
Be safe truckers and all others.
I went to college in Fayetteville. Whenever it snowed all of the cars were at the bottom of Dickson Street. Which wasn’t too bad since George’s Lounge was right there.
I lived in Fayetteville in the 1970's, long before front wheel drive cars and cell phones. I well remember going east down Dixon from the U of A campus during those icy commutes. My little VW bug was the best thing ever to get around town with!
As a former bartender at George’s I can confirm. LOL
Hahaha!
Amazing how nobody will learn from others mistakes
de ville möckß sehr äFFrye steppe v?v
What language is this? @@cv507
Nope! Once a moron, always a moron!
Just a lot of morons out there, vehicles are way safer than they used to be but a lot of drivers and motorists are just as dumb 🙄🙄
Manufacturers stopped producing snow tires and tire chains in the recent past?? Years ago we never saw huge pileups like these recent ones, because back then everyone had winter tires on their vehicles. It's only been in the past couple of decades - the dumbing down years - that have witnessed more and more of these multi-vehicle crashes.
Back then ,.more people were smart enough NOT to be out there!!!!!
Also, truckers used their CB!!! We knew when to park in most cases!! Nobody uses a CB anymore if you can believe that!!! A life line that drivers don’t use!!! Craziness
@@chrisbelsito4231 Doppler Radar, live traffic conditions on maps, live traffic on dot cameras. Cb is is just not needed like it used to.
They still manufacture tire chains, don't know where you get your info but it's invalid
There's too much synthetic compound in tires these days. And people just knew how to drive back in those days. And another thing, People rely too much on traction control. It's too intrusive, turn it off and learn how to drive without it.
From Winslow, AZ, on my way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta and L.A.
EVERYTIME I SEE OR HEAR WINSLOW,AZ I ALWAYS THINK OF THAT SONG FROM THE EAGLES BAND AND END UP SINGING IT ALL DAY 😊
Take it easy.
@@ZenZone_Soundscapes thx I couldn't think of the name. Winslow is a cool little town
There’s been several times that I have debated whether to go out on the road or just stay put waiting for the weather conditions to change for the better. When I was eager to go but I known that the weather was bad I decided to stay parked.
When in doubt, don't go. Err on the side of caution. You're the Captain of the ship. All the clichés apply.
They just don't have the equipment or the experience to deal with snow and ice in the south. The hills and hairpin curves makes it worse. Stay safe.
Oh yeah? Then explain the I-81 pileup in Pennsylvania March 2022…that’s a hilly road…or the Ohio Turnpike pileup December 2022…or the I-94 pileup in Michigan December 2023…get the drift? Yankees have no better control in this stuff than southerners. No matter where you are this is the time to stay off the roads.
They don’t care around here and always wait until it hits to do anything not to mention people here also can’t drive on dry pavement much less this stuff ….
@@MrTrker1 : It's not so much the people here are the problem, as it is the truck drivers who aren't from here.
This is what happens when your 6000 feet above sea level in January. Put your tire chains on and get down the road.
@@jmit3491 My bad, I thought they meant Winslow Arizona.
Take 25 minutes and put tire chains on your truck and carry on down the road.
Pennsylvania bans commercial traffic after a certain point in bad weather on their interstates. Penn State troopers enforce this with very heavy fines. That one extra load through is not worth the potential loss of life and property. More states need to be like Pennsylvania.
Dispatchers don't care. It's either deliver the load or get fired.
@@muffs55mercury61 I just tell them they can take it up with safety in the morning. It's our decision as drivers to go or not. I'm currently sitting in pa right now in this little snow storm and I told my dispatcher that was it. Everyone I saw on the road today where all foreign owner ops.
@@sterlingbryant3059 During my trucking days (retired seven years ago) it was always the driver's discretion. We never had any accounts such as Fed X that demanded that drivers run in that kind of weather.
what? imagine doing it in all states and killing the economy flat dead. thats ridiculous, never heard in Europe banning commercial traffic due to weather, just make chains mandatory to have.
you dispatcher isn't driving the truck.@@muffs55mercury61
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin ' down .... because the road is icyyyy...
Skiddin off the corner in Winslow, Arizona...
@@RobdaVegasMailman 😄
i'm just tryin' to loosen my load; ladies...
Amazing seeing those big drive wheels spinning with all that weight on them.
It's going to be -39 with a windchill of -47°C and it just snowed last night where I am. Everything is going to spin this week lol.
@jrock2142 actually the colder it gets, the better tune traction. Once you stay below 20⁰F and preferably below 0⁰ you get great traction. I learned that moving to Alaska. When it's hovering around 20⁰ or higher everything is slick and nasty. The same hills I need chains for at 20 I'm barefoot below 0⁰. Crazy
That was a hell of a drop good thing that box truck wasn't pushed over that bridge
Up near the Missouri border, In Benton County, we got less an inch of snow, and zero ice. It's ALWAYS bad near the Bobby Hopper Tunnel, and that CRAZY Winslow bridge.
“ well I’m standin on a freeway in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see”…….
Oh my goodness. I do hope everyone is okay.
They haven't seen weather that bad since I was a teenager growing up in Winslow 😮
Impresionante y llamativo paisaje a pesar de los inconvenientes 😍😍😍🙏🙏
A little bit of snow and ice
Mixed with southern folk =
entertainment
A recipe for disaster
Good ole XPO ,hammer down smh
Windsor Ontario still dry 1.7 24 😊 when first wet snow comes I stay home to avoid such carnage
Omg, the guard rail shot 😮
They was lucky. That was a long drop.
@@RobsHandMonkey Amen. I think that all guard rails needs to be a little higher.
I hate that drive from Fayetteville to Van Buren! Those bridges that stretch from one mountaintop to another just creep me out. And dont even mention the tunnel!! I dont travel in NW Arkansas during winter and take 59 south out of Siloam during the warm months!
I drove a flatbed hauling concrete mix a lot over 7 years up this way. Some was on snow and ice, lost traction once going North up to the top of Boston Mountain. Had to wait on a sand truck...
Gotta love those drones.
Who can learn word doubt ? Then one day needing to go to Denver from southern Georgia and driving in the snow created an unforgettable fear in my life. 🥶
I'm glad I live in New England, highways would never be like that- it's just that we are equipped for it here, and have thousands of tons of road salt on hand.
I've lived in both areas. Arkansas is a much bigger state than most of New England's states, and has many more rural roadways such as this one near Winslow (which has a population of nearly 400 people). There's no practical way to salt every highway in Arkansas.
Snow is snow ice is ice it's the grey matter in the skull of the modern day foot on the dash steering wheel holder that causes this.
@@jamesthomas4868 : The Russian truck drivers?
Sure there is, you hire contracters, and send the trucks out before it starts storming..@@Justin_Kipper
@@danielbeard9567: Sure, it's just a matter of tax dollars for thousands of miles of rural highways!
Chain 'em up, boyz!
Holy shit sad all those people. U got some great shots I am going to share this
Almost a prelude to todays Auburn game....slipping and sliding
Это очень опасная работа дальнобойщик, терпения вам и хороших нам дорог💪
будут мозги хорошие,будут и дороги ровные..а когда один кретин перекрывает скоростную магистраль-будет беда
Come spend a few winters in NY. We're about to get a decent-sized snowstorm. You'll love it! 😂😂
Based off the first 2 semis in the video, it looks like tire chains haven't made their way into the Arkansas market yet. 😂😂
DOT should require drivers to carry them in winter
Stay safe everyone please in Missouri it's bad
I traveled those Arkansas highways back in 1960 to 1996 as a salesman, and remember well how the highway dept. would pile sawdust on the hills shoulders and every truck/car owner had to carry a shovel for that reason...Shovel your own way to get up a hill. Old highway 71 south of Fayetteville to Alma, Ark was the worst wet or dry.
I never understood why companies that have a choice send their equipment and drivers through this type of weather. Dispatchers only pay attention to keeping the trailer loaded without monitoring the weather on the route of travel for that load. If you hit this type of weather not only are you putting the driver at risk but you're loosing money also if the highway gets shut down or you get into an accident. I hung it up after 15yrs of cross country 3 months ago and I wish I had did it sooner. The pay has went down and the risk isn't worth the reward...
I didn't know that Winslow, AZ. Had competition in Arkansas!
Just in case you do not know, there is a small mountain region in what is called the Ozarks. It runs from southwestern Missouri through northwestern Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. I understand that mountains in Arizona, especially in the northern portion of the state is something to be careful about as well during the cold season. The part that irritates me is that so many people look at each state as a whole, not the region. For example, there have been blizzards in Amarillo, Texas while it will feel like summer in Galveston. People go by state lines instead of regions because they are stupid. Arizona is the same way. It will be a hundred degrees in Phoenix while it is snowing in Flagstaff. Again, people think that whole states are the same. It is the same in Arkansas. The higher elevations in the Ozarks are more likely to receive snow while the eastern part of the state just gets rain.
Looks like normal winter conditions where I'm from. I guess in Arkansas that shuts it all down.
If they just parked for a half day, catch up on rest, lube the mud flap bearings, they would be sailing along tomorrow instead of sitting in a shop getting body and fender work. No patrol will fault a rig for stopping on the side to avoid a collision or total blockade of a highway during an ice storm. They will other things to worry about.
This is near Devil’s Den state park. In any direction from where this is there are hills and mountains. Beautiful highway though.
Here in New England we plow and sand our roads when it snows.
Glenn Frey was standin' on a corner there a while back
Dude, you're already stopped, chain up!
Looks like the roads were not prepped for the storm 😢
The old bridges freez first deal. Slickery.
North-west AR.
6 yrs ago i was there ,i went to sleep and when i wake up the folling morning i could not move an inch cause all air pipe froze at truck stop
It amazes me how most of the drivers here (without chains) ever got as far in life as they have done, as who - in their right minds, doesn't stop and fit snow/ice chains as soon as it snows, or ices over?
And to be spinning with it still snowing?
Get out and whip a pair of chains on quickly, to get to a layby to put the rest of your chains on, all driven wheels, the two front steers, and at least one pair on an axle-set on the trailer (to help it track inline with the truck, instead of sliding sideways?)
They don’t do winter well in AR. What a mess. Looks like typical January week here in WI. Except this year. We have THEIR weather 🤣
same in ontario canada.
Texas has more snow than Minnesota now. It was warm enough for the lawns to start to green back up in December!
I was there and Minnesota yesterday. There was a flurry for a minute and that's it. Disappointing. Atleast it's snowing now in Illinois finally.
I was sliding through a corner in Winslow Arizona had seven cars hit me from behind do do do.. do do do..They ought to take it easy. take it easy or you might end up in a ditch on your way home
I'm sorry be careful
I Agree. I'm just spoiled I guess living in New England. We're forecasted to get 8 inches of snow overnight tonight. Tomorrow morning roads will be down to bare wet pavement
And to think there was any snow visible in less 4 hours from this time frame!😂
Oops, for a second I thought this was 🎵Winslow, Arizona. Take it Easy. ✌️
Slopes and pitch is the devil when slick. Something most dispatchers don’t understand!
Chain up boys and girls
Well I see some of the usual suspect steering wheel holder truck companies represented here. Foot on the gas hand on the phone and full steam ahead.
Freeway gets wet and freezes than turns into a giant ice skating ring. Just look at how glossy the freeway looks.
I remember when truckers were the best drivers on the road. Not so much any longer! Now they just seem to be regular (bad) drivers in much bigger vehicles 😢
Shortage of truckers. Now we have steering wheel holders to fill the gap.
I remember times when truckers were called "knights of the road". Nowdays they are "flip-floppers".
Chains anyone?
I wondered about that too, maybe snow and ice only over the mountain top.
We don't get enough snow to have chains in Arkansas. You'd have to order and install yourself most likely.
First thing that came to mind for me. As an over-the-road guy you should always have them ready and it's better to use them and not need them then vice versa
I live here. They do nothing for the roads in winter until they have several accidents or even deaths.
I used to live in Arkansas they don’t even have close to enough trucks to treat the road if they had enough salt trucks as much has state troopers and highway patrol they would be better off you would think they would be better prepared because mountains does run thru western part of the state
I love Georgia 😃
I blame the Arkansas Highway Patrol and the Arkansas DOT. The highway should be shut down until weather and road conditions improve.
Roads iced up? I have a good idea. Let's drive over the Boston mountains
I was driving semi for 20 years and i never have to drive in stuff like dhis i always wach water forecast and even when my dispatcher giving my load go through this condition i refused
Drive nights and weekends 😘
Thanks Arkansas for not putting salt on the roads ever year Arkansas is to cheap to put salt down no excuse you're fired.
i was standing on a corner there once
Park it
I go through there daily. Local nw Arkansas tanker.
Where are the chains for the tires?
How much ice does it take for a hwy to be shut down?
I was thinking it was Winslow Arizona when I first clicked 😅
Waiting for the April thaw. 😂 😂😂
Kinda funny it happens every year about this time
A strange thing isn't it 😮
Driver: you do chains?
Recruiter:NOPE, we are in arkansas, dont need em
That must be on old 71 HIWAY.
I thought we were crashing into the back of that truck at the beginning. I didn’t know it was drone footage 😅
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truck driver must put all chaintires on the 6 tires plus trailer, too
Look at all them professional truck drivers lmfao
Can't believe that you guys are already in May while the rest of us are stuck here in January.
Not that being four months into the future seems to do you much good since the weather's apparently *still* shite.
This is educational for everybody. Park it
A good example of why the South lost the war...
There's just a handfull of real truckers on the road now . . The rest are foreigners that are clueless ..
Poor truckers having s hard time this year 😒
This really isn't that bad and perhaps if they put the phone down this would not happen.
I have a roadtrip in a week that takes me thru Arkansas. They really don’t plow???
Yeah, its hard to drive straight roads
To damn late when you're on there
I would not get within 20 miles of that stretch of road in ice and snow. I-49 is sketchy because of speeds even with dry pavement.
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad that Lord Jesus got me OUT of the trucking industry!! NEVER, EVER again!!
New trucks are made to get stuck and not perform well even in nice weather