Trainer Refuses To Put Chains On Is Saying We Are Gonna Wait A Week For Snowstorm To Pass

Speaking of chains, I hear there is "something better" and legal...

I hear they're called auto socks.

Auto sock website

Has anyone used these before? I've seen them at the Iowa 80 truck stop.

Dave

Dave, I have read that they are extremely difficult to remove and once you hit asphalt they wear out VERY fast. They do look good for emergency situations but if they are a one time use, they are not worth the cost to me. It only takes me about 10 minutes to put on a set of 3 railers and I had to do that for the first time in my life this year when they had mandatory chains on McDonald pass.

Chains may be heavy and awkward but not any more so than the chains I drag around every day.

I didn't see a price

I didn't see a price

They are listed on Iowa80.com for $225

Ouch

He didn't want to put on chains because these chains absolutely destroy the super single tires. He would rather let it clear than reduce the life of his $5,000 tides.

I don't blame him.

Trainers for big companies have to buy their own tires?

He didn't want to put on chains because these chains absolutely destroy the super single tires. He would rather let it clear than reduce the life of his $5,000 tides.

I don't blame him.

Trainers for big companies have to buy their own tires?

Some companies push their drivers to be lease operators. Also he may be an owner operator moving that companies freight.

He didn't want to put on chains because these chains absolutely destroy the super single tires. He would rather let it clear than reduce the life of his $5,000 tides.

I don't blame him.

Trainers for big companies have to buy their own tires?

Some companies push their drivers to be lease operators. Also he may be an owner operator moving that companies freight.

I hate to say it, unless you are training someone to be an owner/lease-operator, then I don't think you should be a trainer. It's too easy to think about the bottom line and not think about training a SAFE driver.

But, that's just me.

Dave

Mark it up to part of the dues you have to deal with in training or call safety. My trainer was similarly an idiot. In the exact same scenario he refused to prepare properly, wanted to sit on the side of 90 during last years week long buffalo snow in, and the only reason we ended up moving to a truck stop is because the police made us turn around and leave before it got really bad. I've mentioned here several times that upon reaching the truck stop he refused to go in for the whole week and would **** right on the ground underneath the trailer with paper towels. Not all trainers should be trainers, it's something you can either just deal with or call safety/training about. It's actually quite funny that someone who refuses to put on chains, which is normally something done out of personal safety limitations, didn't prepare to sit. If he's going to sit for a week he should do it at a store/truck stop. That being said in hindsight, it worked out for me, but i should have called safety. Had we stayed where we were which was on 90 directly in the worst path south east of erie the snow would have been above the truck windows by the end of the day.

He was shutting under the trailor? Wtf!

When we left I could see the frozen solid big pile of crap on the ground

Speaking of chains, I hear there is "something better" and legal...

I hear they're called auto socks.

Auto sock website

Has anyone used these before? I've seen them at the Iowa 80 truck stop.

Dave

http://www.autosock.com/en/news-medias/newsletter/4-autosock-for-truck-granted-final-approval-in-colorado.html