Store Truck for Winter

[RUSSELL5000]

Winter comes on here around the end of October – this is about the time that roads can be expected to be icy and road salt appears. I have the travel trailer winterized and stored away by this time.

We don’t have a real need for the truck at this point – for the past three years I have used the truck in the winter simply because it is fun. But there is all that salt on the road, just waiting to rust everything away.

What are the negatives about storing the truck from November to the middle of March or so?

Thanks.

 

[mwilson]

Not a one that I can think of. I put mine up in November and dig it back out late April or early May.

Keeps it out of the salt and out of my way when plowing.

Put the little mouse mattress style repellents under the hood and all through the interior. Also chuck some dryer sheets in. Remove any paper goods, tissues, etc.

Fill it full of winter fuel just in case I have to get it out mid-winter.
Back it into storage building and remove batteries.

Then kiss it goodbye until springtime.

That's all I have done for the last 6 winters in storage.

 

[Brian Sullivan]

Mine sits in heated garage has never seen any salt in Michigan

 

[RUSSELL5000]

Well, no heated garage at my place. However, I think I just made a plan; off to the storage shed this winter.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

How come they haven't switched over to sand for the roadways? Cost? Not as effective as salt?

 

[mwilson]

How come they haven't switched over to sand for the roadways? Cost? Not as effective as salt?

Sand and Salt/Sand mix is more expensive to put up, hard on windshields and paint, takes longer to clear the road. I still miss it though.

The new chemicals clear the road much faster which reduces accidents and gets traffic back up to speed quicker. Very hard on bridges and roads, leeches into cracks in the asphalt and then pushes it up a little which breaks the edges off and pretty quick the heaves and potholes show up.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I'm only 40 this month, but I don't remember Ca ever using salt, but I guess they did at some point. Kinda funny thinking that sand is hard on windshields and paint when salt literally eats an entire vehicle
:--)

 

[mwilson]

Sand was also messy and requires a lot of clean up in the spring.

 

[jhenderson]

Mike's correct. I spent a few years as DPW director of our town. Sand is expensive. It takes 10 times longer and 3 times as much equipment to pick up in the spring as it does to spread in the winter. Then you need to dispose of it. Salt or calcium melts ice and snow while sand merely provides traction. The public has come to demand black roads after a storm. I'll keep my opinion on that to myself. The only way to achieve bare roads in below freezing conditions is with a deiceing agent. Pure sand is only used on gravel roads where salt would melt the frost and turn the roads to mud.