“Heavy snow?” This is PG, we get winter here. Maybe we need to re-evaluate our budget and make highways and people’s lives a priority.

Don’t taxpayers hand over their hard earned money every payday and everytime they purchase anything these days just so our Hwy’s maintenance contractors can make it possible for heavy trucks and the rest of us can climb Peden Hill in the winter time?

Don’t the contractors have plow trucks, graders and sanders at their disposal?

Our Hwys contractor is a joke!

Tire chains??? What the heck are they? Oh ya most of the time they hang off the racks on trucks and are very rarely put on tires. They are called jewllery because they are mostly for show and only used as a last resort after you have spun out.
Chip trucks as well as most other trucks in the north all have them and if used it happens mostly on off highway roads.
I must mention that I have seen graders and plow trucks with chains on their tires. Wonder why???

I guess the graders and plow trucks are not “professional drivers” eh? ;-)

YRB can’t be everywhere at once and conditions can change within minutes. Truckdrivers can talk to each other on radios concerning conditions but even that sometimes isn’t certain. Even following a plow truck doesn’t guarantee that the traction will be good enough for an empty tridem-train unless the plow is sanding like crazy behind him. Fact of life. Sometimes those trucks spin out. No one wants to chain up unless they have to, sometimes one of them woulda, shoulda, coulda but didn’t. Bin there.

Not sure what happened, but not much you can do when you get a red light at the bottom of the hill and a car that hardly moves in front of you giving you no opportunity to get some speed for that first steep corner. It doesn’t take much in that situation and a guy is spun out… maybe get lucky and grab some grit on the side of the road and chew it up for a stretch… but it comes down to bad luck sometimes. In thick traffic on the hill its tough to get under the truck to fasten the chains up without getting run over.

Sometimes its just the driver and sometimes a company driver might not have the tires or the truck he is use to driving. Its not just a matter of chaining up or not chaining up… last nights snow wasn’t really something a driver would expect to have to chain up for… it was a dry snow after all… one should never have to chain up for Peden hill… the Mud or Isle Pierre maybe, but not Peden Hill.