Hope your Christmas was better than mine

[jcummins]

Many years ago, I was in a terrific snow storm. We had a CB and heard about a small bridge at a certain mile marker that had an extreme problem with ice. We could only drive about 35 due to conditions, but had slowed to 15mph. My friend commented we got to be close to the bridge, and at the very point the van I was driving, simply floated side to side. I said we ain't close we are on it. I held the steering wheel straight and floated through it. There was NO control at all. I made no attempt to brake or anything, I knew doing so would make it worse. If we had not had the CB and been warned, we would have hit that at about 35mph, and I'm certain we would have wrecked.

I've driven many a mile over the years, but I have never encountered ice as slick as that was.

 

[Low Bucket]

Glad you wasn't hurt!

Good thing your truck had a sunroof.

Sorry to hear this happened on CHRISTmas.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Sorry for the bad luck, I was driving to work one time and we had some rare snowy and icy weather. The state hadnt got to one section and I was in my 2wd chevy truck. I got on the gravel shoulder and drove 45 miles that way. Folks were driving on the road were skidding all over. When I got to work I found a set of tire chains in the work trailer and put them on. I still had trouble on the road so I drove 45 miles back on the shoulder. While there I put a 250 gallon tote on the back of the truck and then filled it half full of sand. that was the on of the longest days I ve ever had driving.