Reply #15: Well the winter time wasn't so great out west

[Droopy]

But my philosophy on chaining wheels was that you do it to get out of trouble, not get into it. If they had the chain law in effect for a mountain I'd wait for them to clear the road before I'd chain up and get into the snow.

For backing into those tight spaces truckers develop sort of a sixth sense. We know if our blind side is likely to bump into something and adjust accordingly. When I have to back into a tight space and it's not a straight back in, I keep the driver's side as close to the other vehicle as possible that way I know I've got enough clearance on the blind side.

I used to have the guy's phone number that I used to drive with, but I lost it somehow. I actually ran across him in a truck stop one time and we talked for a while. That's amazing I think. Two over the road truckers who know each other, but travel different routes all across the coutry just happening to see each other by chance in the same place. Small world I guess.