When To Know When To Shut Down And How?

Just want to put it out there but if it's bad enough that I need to pull off to the sholder and wait for conditions to improve , I would black my truck out no lights at all. Don't want some one to see me and think I am moving.

Got to say, I can't believe an "experienced" driver would do that.

I know it sounds conter intutive, but when the road conditions are so bad that you have trucks stopping on the side of the road. Chanses are you can't see the road any more. Not the white lines, not the reflectores. Nothing at all this happens in white out from snow. Were you have no idea were the road is. Or in the dust storms down in New Mexico and Arizona . there is often times no road to see you still have truck drivers driving 50 mph 65 mph. There using there GPS and the rumble strips to gide them selves. I don't know how to post the link but check out Arizona DOT and what do to if you get into a dust storm. Or check out NOAA and what to do in a dust storm.

What you do is pull over and turn on your 4-ways. Then wait.

If you're on the side of the highway you definitely want triangles out and 4-ways on. With limited visibility, the first thing someone will see is light. You'll see lights often times before you see anything else, including the road itself or any markers along the side of the road. I understand what you're saying about not wanting to confuse people into thinking you're moving but the flashing 4-ways will immediately inform them that you have a problem of some sort. They'll immediately assume you're either going slow or stopped. And considering the conditions that put you in that position in the first place I'm sure they're already expecting something like that.

Remember, people can't react to something they're unaware of. An accident happens because two vehicles wind up in the same location and at least one of them didn't expect the other to be there. You always want to know where all of the other vehicles are around you, even if you can't tell exactly what they're doing because of poor visibility.