Travel Advisories And Restrictions Announced For Midwest Weekend Storm

This was an ugly weekend for drivers caught out in the major snow, sleet and ice storm in the Midwest. That same storm quickly moved into the Northeast causing highway closures and vehicle travel restrictions.

Travel advisories and restrictions announced for Midwest weekend storm

Not to mention some places have seen, or currently are experiencing, bitter cold temperatures. This past Saturday, I heard reports on the radio of temperatures as low as -27 farenheit (without the wind).

These temps can kill you, so make sure you are prepared just in case your truck were to break down. A light jacket and tennis shoes won't cut it.

It's been one heck of a weekend for us. Over 90% of our loads go out between midnight and 2am but corporate forced us to wait until 6am Saturday. It screwed up my normal schedule and in turn stores are getting deliveries much later than normal and dealing with more vendors and shopper traffic. I've been pretty fortunate so far with our seniority system I've been able to take the last route that avoids the worst weather. Saturday took a 3 stop omaha run and pickup eggs. Drove 100 miles empty on dry pavement and that was bad enough. My friend (1 spot below me) got sent to Rochester MN into the blizzard. He ended up parking it in Owatonna after watching a trooper pass him w/o emergency lights on forcing an oncoming milk truck to take the ditch to possibly save the troopers life. Unfortunately with most of our routes on the weekend we're running back to the DC empty. Really bad situation when you have whiteout conditions and 50 mph wind gusts. As far as I know all of our drivers have made it through the weekend without any incidents so I'd say that's a win! I guess I'm a A-hole though for rubbing it in his face I had a super easy Saturday after sitting for 4 hours at the egg farm giving me over 14 paid hours while he white knuckled it all day and only got 10 today I'm in southern MN and roads are still pretty icy, temps wont warm up until wednesday which is bringing more snow and rain.

An hour or two after that snow started to hit, it got really hard to push the two wheeler through it all.

I think about all the drivers on here doing their midwest regional routes everytime there's bad weather in the forecast. I pray you are all safe and don't become stranded out there in the elements.

I started late Saturday my gate time is 1:45 AM but with the snow and ice I didn't run until 8 AM. Unfortunately I fought 40+ mph winds with only 22k pounds, my arms where tired after that.

As far as I know only myself and 2 other drivers out of 38 at my terminal ran Saturday. They "strongly suggested" that since we are backed up we run Sunday to make up for Saturday but with the 6° temps and -20° wind chill I ran late Saturday instead.

An hour or two after that snow started to hit, it got really hard to push the two wheeler through it all.

I dont miss that one bit

Stay safe out there

Prayers sent your alls way!