IOWA I-80 ICE ROADS 7 TRUCK CRASHES

[@robertphillips6296]

It’s good to know about the fact that Salt stops being effective at 14 Degrees and that the lack of spray coming off of tires is an indication of the presence of ice on the road way. Thank you.

[@mattmoschkau84]

Robert Phillips States have 3 different types of salt. Most of the Midwest use regular salt, it will stop being effective around 14 degrees. However some of the western and far north states use salt that is good down to zero, it has a blue color. It’s rare but you will see some states put down a salt with a red color, it’s good down to around 10 below zero. It’s nasty stuff because those salts have chemical additives that can be really corrosive. Some states rather than using salt will use a brown slurry, it’s actually beet juice, it’s like glue and not harmful. But not effective at lower temperatures. I’ve seen it most in Ohio and New Mexico. Always wash your vehicle after a snow storm, states still use chemicals that can damage it significantly and in very short periods of time.

[@ronnieterry9275]

When the road gets like this it is time to look for a stopping place till driving conditions improve. You will be glad you did.

[@evie00sleep68]

Ronnie: You are so much fun, riding along with you in the Big Rig & seeing the Salt Flat. 🐞🏔❄🏞🎶🎼🎧. Cheers🥂. Thanks for the post

[@jeanetteb9467]

When I park in cold temperatures I always rock back and forth about 1 foot or 2 in my parking spot. I get some strange stares but I'm never stuck to the pavement in the morning.

[@truckingreviewchannel]

I do the same!!

[@tomgray6123]

As a very experienced driver you must love it when a nerd tries to tell you how to drive in poor conditions.

[@xladydriver]

These are the conditions where getting paid by the hour NOT BY THE MILE becomes a SAFETY ISSUE!!! Rock On 😎

[@SoaringPaul2000]

Living in Alaska, I run with Blizzak tires, made in Canada, which is the best non studded tire you can buy. Forget salt! Salt is the worse thing you can put on the road where this driver is right, it turns snow to ice if the temp is just the right condition. My state has banned salting roads.

[@candidwhite5826]

I love and miss Iowa.... Lived in Altoona a couple years too!

[@dragonsong1023]

Apparently I-80 in many states has taken many vehicles/ crashes. 12-19-19 , on I-80 in central Pennsylvania , dozens of vehicles, mostly tractor trailers piled up . Several injuries and at lease 2 dead.

[@brendabrookskoehl2689]

I 💘 love that route. It is so beautiful there and awesome and amazing

[@TEXASOUTLAW829]

I just went thru there this morning 12/15/19 @ 0800. Was dry. Guess I just missed it. Y’all be safe

[@sharonw2475]

Twenty two plus years (almost 2 million miles) driving across the U.S. and Canada, never slid into the median/ditch, never rolled one, never jack-knifed and never charged with an accident. In these kind of driving conditions I use to tell my trainees first of all stay off the dam* brakes, and if you are passing other vehicles you are driving too fast, allow extra stopping distance and watch farther ahead than you normally would, or when you start seeing vehicles in the ditch it's time to get off the dam* road!

[@MichiganMadeTT]

I just came thru that way Friday. Glad to be ahead of that mess 🙌🏽

[@floydpink6238]

i did once. from Oakland ca. to Chicago. ja. ja all the way i was soooo afraid.. ja . ja thanks to my small car (Buick).. it resissted that weather.. Thanks for the video.. you brough me memories.. bye...

[@happypappy6371]

Too many people are always in a hurry.

[@BlackBear15909]

I haven't had a beer in a year! Lol..what mile marker was that Miller truck!!!!!

[@jayasmrmore3687]

I’d like you to put a speedometer on the corner of the video.

[@thistruckerslife]

Gods grace with your travels today

[@rikkibigby1954]

I was caught on that crap in Booneville, MO!!! UGH!!!!

[@monicaconley3498]

It's pronounced de moine....I can't help it, I'm Iowan. Thank you for a much better view of the I-80 carnage.

[@captseamus]

A lot of Michigan highways use sand... salt is used at the intersections... many counties roads in Michigan bearly get plowed... 4 inches of snow left on the blacktops or gravel roads isn't a big problem... most northern michiganers have 4x4.

[@ronnieterry9275]

Always keep a lot of following distance distance and slow down when there is snow on the roadway. Arrival time can be changed. If you become a scoetistic as did the ones in the median arrival time won't happen.

[@speedy9speed857]

Highway through the danger zone 🎶🎶🎶

[@BlohmandBlohmer]

Give me 10" of snow instead .125" of ice. That ice will bite you.

[@Torsee]

Looked like repeater antennas. Imagine radar dish’s with protective tents on them.

[@dodgeman4360]

Reminds me when I came into Iowa in 1996......Snowing and going along and off to the left, you'd see a car spinning out into the median.

[@tommyhall350]

Be safe out there buddy watch out 4 wheelers

[@madmikemadmike2175]

Forward Air in the ditch is a common site.

[@101southsideboy]

2:00 Miller lite is not real beer. I call it Piss water

[@danielgouge4639]

Miller High Life is even worse

[@brose2323]

My 2nd year in the truck was with an Iowa company. Every week the roads turned into junkyards.

[@julieverma1865]

Don't forget about the wind play a big factor in driving

[@MrDPdrum]

I used to drive for TMC , never saw a flat bedder in the ditch. 😀

[@jonpaulcottrell7314]

Love the Miller song

[@joeljenkins2876]

Never fails to amaze me how some drivers lack the common, good sense to just SLOW DOWN when conditions get bad: I mean, is it really THAT DIFFICULT to understand?????????

[@truckingreviewchannel]

25 is hardly going fast most of the time!

[@joeljenkins2876]

@@truckingreviewchannel: I agree, it isn't. But many accidents could be avoided in this kind of weather if people would lower their speed to NO FASTER THAN 25.

[@lynheydt3304]

I am not a tractor trailer driver. I would like to know if guys still use cb radios? When I was in my teens it seems that all you guys had them and it seemed that there wasn’t as many crazy accidents that on truck on top of another.

[@truckingreviewchannel]

I run my cb. But alot of guy dont

[@lannyflannery9409]

whydo you drive the left lane so much ? makes any one who passes use the right lane

[@truckingreviewchannel]

No one is passing me

[@thebbqtrucker3773]

Better traction would be the reason.

[@thatlindgirlinutah5829]

😆😂 I love when people try to pronounce my town of Tooele! It's Too-wil-la. I know it looks like Toolie or Tooell and I've even heard my own neighbors say it wrong. I get a kick out of asking non-Utahns to say it correctly.😉 Everyone stay safe out there on the roads and keep an eye on those weather forecasts. We have a saying here in Utah, "If you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes and it'll change!"

[@FlyboyUS]

How fast are you going

[@hawkwrangler1950]

This stretch of road is always really bad in the winter... ALWAYS

[@robertbrown6933]

My forward air brother!! Lol

[@kingcrusher5524]

That statue is called the "Tree Of Life".

[@jamesroets800]

It's a VORTAC - air traffic control device.

[@charlesc.parker1164]

That's what I was thinking. Cold beer for sure.

[@bendenny4860]

Good job brother we found that in IDAHO SATURDAY

[@laurenhansman3447]

Great video and I enjoy your channel. I think you meant "again" instead of "agian" at the end of the video. :)

[@garywoolard9499]

Trucking Review Channel guy any other truckers that look at the videos here. I watched some but not all videos by a trucker that goes by the name "Riding Shotgun". He drives in Western US like St. Louis north into Canada and west to the Pacific Ocean. He had a video put out last winter I believe driving over what is called the "Million Dollar Highway", US Highway 550 and the Red Mountain Pass portion of this "Million Dollar Highway". There maybe guys and gals as truckers and non truckers alike that drove over this Red Mountain Pass summer time fewer in winter. About 3 or 4 miles going south of Ouray(pronounce u-ray) is where the gorge is. 60/70 angle downward 400 feet to bottom of this gorge. Going off the road death is likely. Right to edge in places it drops off. No guardrails in this area going south and miles away further on no guardrails going north but less total distance there of no guardrails. 72 known avalanche paths on Red Mountain Pass of just 28 miles long from Ouray to Silverton. 2018-2019 was soooooo much seasonal snowfall that Colorado had 2,500 avalanches statewide. Normally it's just 500 statewide. Yes I forgot to mentioned that this area is in southwestern Colorado. The highway Dept. closed down this R.M.P. for 17 days straight, snowplow crews working two 12 hour shifts 24 hours a day to clear snow, tree debris, rocks off this highway. Snow gushed inside a snowshed 20 feet deep that high enough that grocery semi trucks trailers can pass each other at the same time. Avalanches fill highway there 60 feet deep and the gorge area 100 feet plus. Yes this a very exceptional snow season that people said they haven't seen this much seasonal snowfall in 30 to 40 years. Ferns from trees insulated the snow and still didn't melt completely dispite of 80 degree days this spring/summer. Ouray is known as the jeepney center of America because people drive 4x4's and such all over the mountain roads in part of the country. Check KZbin videos in area driving through what was avalanche(s). Corkscrew Gulch spring 2019 avalanche example. Trees down because avalanches over the mountainous areas. This US Highway 550 is kept open year-round because it is north/south highway to connect towns in this part of the state. All kinds of vehicles go across US 550 including big RVs', semi trucks, tourist buses, pickup trucks towing fishing boats, motorcycles. You get the picture. Is this on your "bucket list"??? Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad also there, kids have blast riding the trains. I didn't write this to bring tourist dollars to myself but did get "carried away". I'm a Vietnam War Era disable veteran on soc sec in flatland Michigan. Okay is g

There needs to be a Federal law, that especially in inclement weather, trucks are to use the right lane only. However, their lobby puts too much money in politician's pockets... The ongoing danger of retreads is evidence of that.

[@jameshickey9393]

I looked it up, named after Benjamin Booneville an Army officer in about 1813.

[@robertmoreno999]

Loving this new technology keep on showing them what there missing..

[@carlosduran2164]

Buen video 🤗👍

[@truckingreviewchannel]

thank you

[@440cbshop9]

This is why you need a good cb radio check out 440 cb shop on Facebook.

[@truckingreviewchannel]

I use a 25 year old ranger with a kicker. Can tune in Tokyo and melt antanas for 20 feet away come on back!

[@justwondering786]

At about time 8:10 that tower is a METAPHOR ; The Tree 🌳 of Utah are The Tree of Life a Swedish artists named Karl Momen in 1980 and in 1986 he dedicated it . Oh and stay out of Wells,NV headed towards Jackpot,NV on the north side of the railroad there is a lot of red lights. Lol 😂 are is it hot red lights

[@RogerWittekind]

While the ice is awful wind will make it even worse.

[@glenndavis4452]

I-80 west of Des Moines is treacherous. Just saw big wreck last week. Pretty sure they both lived. Bunk driver was pretty out of it.

[@nasapeterbilt6042]

That was a very wise thing to do 30 plus years driving i do the same when it's to many all it takes is one

[@jeffouellette9946]

But don't think just because you're in that left lane and you think you got traction that you can still drive fast.

[@jaitrucking8665]

Be careful guys. I'll be out there tomorrow. God bless

[@julieverma1865]

Driver remember that ice road on the road

[@dudley7540]

I-80 is much easier in the summer.

[@brianligat2038]

Keep on trucking - hogging the left lane

[@brendabrookskoehl2689]

Been there at the salt flats

[@elizaevans3736]

Yup 4wh drive is great if your in snow or mud but on ice you are no better than 2whs.

[@markdunkerton7245]

looked like a cell phone tower

[@johncampochiaro7534]

Stay safe my friend.

[@Jose-gq8wc]

I could see that after 30 years that I have bi driving things have not change on 80

[@curtismccorkel6985]

I did that route to Colorado

[@hondabikesboyz]

Never never fast speed on the ice road need slow down chill ride for safe

[@jayasmrmore3687]

In these conditions, 18 wheelers should not go faster than a sprinting cyclist.

[@patchesfabbro5095]

You pass all those drivers just to poll off. . .

[@rfi-cryptolab4251]

What's with all those "professional drivers" wiped out into the median and/or cables barriers?

[@jamesroets800]

It's the remains of an inland sea.

[@ameliatoreson1590]

It would help if all of you would slow down . Driving too fast for the weather conditions .

[@truckingreviewchannel]

winter is coming

[@sweetness2689]

What speed where you going at?

[@truckingreviewchannel]

Between 10 and 20

[@larryrecoy8198]

i drove alot and know how to drive in this shit!

[@truckingreviewchannel]

good deal

[@doodar21]

Funny reading the comments about Why didn't he stop after witnessing a vehicle lose control on ice. Sure... just slam on the brakes and come to a safe stop. At least no one was hauling ass on slippery roads.

[@davidpayne4315]

Missed my turn DANG

[@rightlane4960]

Highway to the dangerzone!

[@littleturtle1610]

Warner in a hurry that's a first.

[@julieverma1865]

Wind is your Emimise

[@dsg325]

All freight in the ditch is late.

[@raymondchabot4396]

Drivers who rely on no spray = no ice are known as accident statistics.

[@truckingreviewchannel]

It is one of many criteria

[@willwagner2252]

Truckers won't slow down unless you prosecute.

[@rangerider51]

Too bad a Frito truck didn’t wipe out by the beer truck.lol.

[@truckingreviewchannel]

I would have been on that!!!

[@julieverma1865]

Joy Joy California

[@julieverma1865]

Shame on the mess

[@mikeschaefer8123]

Wyoming my car over shit ice and wind danger lot break. Big truck and car over roll.

[@ryant8424]

Cops not enforcing speed limit.

[@truckerdjtyme6872]

Remember this

[@StrongerByTheMile]

Yikes 😱

[@NomadOutdoorAdventures]

Oh boy

[@SanDzFit]

I expect four wheelers to drive like idiots but there is no excuse for a professional driver to do so. Always some Billy Badass trucker who thinks he/she can out drive the weather. SLOW DOWN!!

[@truckingreviewchannel]

I think i can handle it properly after 30 years. If 25 is to fast you should just park

[@sandraleung7950]

Tooele Utah pronounced Two illa not tooly!

[@ТимофейЛяблин-ъ8к]

Блин скок траков .......жалко

[@jake-de8kp]

I'm glad i'm gone

[@annettebarella2116]

Hello friends

[@leelawrence913]

yes running up northern maine..salt is a joke...you use sand that is the safest tractiom...

[@garynelson3634]

These fools out here today have no skills Nor common sense, Have been driving since the late seventies , CB radios Were a necessary tool, But not for these fools out here todayI run my radio every day very very rarely even hear anybody speak up, We used to use it to let people know going the other direction that there was a problem in front of them that doesn't happen anymore Absolutely pathetic what truck driving has become

[@Glockenstein0869]

ICY 80....

[@b.sturges3314]

In my limited experience in the ol' snow plow, when driving on thick powdery snow and road bed becomes very rough, you are driving on solid ice. Stay off the brakes and you can almost every time make it on down the road.

[@alberthickman305]

An no one's got there cb on ..