4x4, 5th wheel, exhaust brake, and icy roads

[rideon]

is slow still the best combo?

 

[GerryDrake]

........ icy roads

Given that combination, I prefer an RV park.



Just one accident or slide into the ditch and you spend a lot more time and money correcting than waiting a day or two in an RV park would cost. .

 

[Joe G.]

I agree with Gerry. If you have a choice don't do it. If you have to drive on icy roads, use the manual lever on the trailer brake controller to keep the trailer behind you.

 

[bombero]

Read my lips: I am never going to drag my trailer on snowy/icing roads. Why do I carry cable chains for my rig. Go figure!!

 

[rideon]

thanx for input

thanks guys.



Living in Idaho and heading south in the winter kinda precludes stopping for a few days... ..... you could be there 'til spring.

ret. lacofd looking for sun!

 

[GWBourne]

yeah, i will be pulling my GN from eugene to boise in a few months..... not looking fwd to doing that. but i will go SLOW if needed, as i will be on a time schedule. have to get bck to pendleton.



stopped is best, slow if the need to persist is there. VERY slow.

Grant

 

[RMcCulloch]

is slow still the best combo?

"Snow - Go Slow; Ice - No Dice!"



That aphorism was given to me when I first started thinking about my combination and, so far, everything I've experienced has reinforced it.



The "Real Secret" is to leave before the blizzard gets there.

 

[Jack in Alaska]

Be REAL CAREFUL using an exhaust brake on an icy road with your rig behind. Even in 4x4 the wheels may lockup and then it is way too late to recover.

I learned from experience on this.

 

[merryman]

Ahh, but sometimes the weather overtakes one on the road. Two Februarys ago, we were returning from Las Vegas, and mid afternoon, 50 miles from Susanville, we hit an unexpected storm. By the time we got to town where we could hold up, we were on 4+ inches of snow.

Sometimes its difficult to plan around that kind of problem.



A close friend was maybe driving tooooo slow on packed snow. On a supered corner, his whole rig, truck and fiver slid off the road on the down slope---and down a 20 foot embankment. Often wondered whether a bit more speed would have kept him up on the road??



Vaughn