slow down, guys.

People going too fast for the conditions.

Zamboni time. Red and blue lines an option.

I’m driving a 4×4 pickup with winter tires and I’m having issues in some places in town, yet I am still getting passed by hotshots risking the safety of everyone. I don’t understand why driving for the conditions is such a hard concept for some drivers in PG.

Was listening to the scanner earlier today, lots of ditching on the Old Caribou hwy to Buckhorn rd..

PS…great day off to spend in my jammies with a hot chocolate and carolines.. I would not have travelled the roads at all today.

Thanks to the RCMP and the Ambulances that risked their lives to help the folks in these accidents.

its all on the kind of car/truck you have and more importantly the type/brand of tires on the vehicle.

too many of PG drivers are more worries about fuel economy or how cheap they can get their tires.

Then we get days like this, and you wonder why a select few get around like its summer out.

The last few dumps of snow have been great for entertainment. Gotta love the FWD and RWD vehicles. Has no place in the north, unless you like being frustrated, or frustrating everyone else by going 30km/hr in a 60 zone.

talsnic, i’ve lived in PG all my life and I’ve never owned a 4×4, FWDs only. a good set of winter tires and knowledge about how to drive in poor conditions is much more valuable than a jacked up 4×4 and the requisite attitude of almost anyone that drives such a vehicle. sounds like you might have the sort of attitude i’m talking about. ‘truck big, car small, me drive insanely fast around small car to pass and show them who is a real man’.

sure, i’ve had some issues when we get a dump like we did a couple weeks ago, but I made it everywhere I needed to go. maybe you were the guy behind me when I got stuck the one time who looked like his head was going to explode, like he wanted to get out and pull my arms off. another important aspect of winter driving, regardless of what you drive, is patience. cars belong here in the north. typically, cars aren’t the problem. it’s the guys with the massive trucks and assumably, small penises…..

Wow mikmak, sounds like you’re the one with issues.

And since you’ve never owned a 4×4, you have no idea of the capabilities. My 4×4 with all seasons will go places your Toyota Prius will never go. That’s not opinion, it’s fact. Don’t be hatin’ on the 4×4 owners when you’re spinning out in deep snow.

Ive seen my fair share of trucks getting stuck or spinning their wheels, and I have no issues getting past them.

When a vehicle has 3 limited slips, and an electromagetic clutched center differential, which can push upwards of 95% of the power front to back. You figure out what I drive. Its not a truck. BTW im lowered as well… I likely have less ground clearance than your car.

Trucks are not advantageous. unequal driveshafts, few have limited slips, and if they do, its only in the rear. They only win, when the snow is wet and 0.6 to 1m deep, as they have the ground clearance.

Mikmak I drive a smaller 4+4. Much more suitable for this country than those low slumg econo boxs that need the roads plowed closer than I shave. Never got stuck, don’t need to crawl around in the cold and snow putting on chains.

Some of us are just smarter adapting to our environment.

Remember it’s not the size of the appendage that is important, but how mad it gets.

I thought “appendages” shrink in the cold?

Seamut, fair enough, clearly four wheel drive is advantageous, I just got my hackles up by a truck owner pointing the finger at those of us that buck the assumption that trucks are necessary here. my next vehicle will probably be an all wheel drive, in the realm of a subaru, so I recognize the benefit.

and I love that johnnyb assumes it’s a prius, because anyone that drives a car in PG must be a left wing liberal environmentalist. I’ll check my bias about large truck owners having small…appendages…if you check yours as well johnny!

So…..its not true ? I was told they only sell F-350’s to men with les petite package. (putting bunker gear on )

“I was told they only sell F-350’s to men with les petite package”

Only if it comes with a diesel as well, LOL.

mikmak: “and I love that johnnyb assumes it’s a prius, because anyone that drives a car in PG must be a left wing liberal environmentalist.”

Ok, so it’s a Nissan Leaf. Same thing.

You seem to be doing a lot of finger pointing while complaining that others are doing the same to you. That’s a hypocrite in my books.

I drove to Quesnel last night and it took 2 and a half hours at 50kmh! seen LOTS of vehicles in the ditches, the roads were sheer black ice, scary as hell drive! Good response by the RCMP though as they were at every accident….and sadly there were a few.

And how many sand trucks did you count?