Wyoming 1/29/23

Not that it should come as a surprise,

But there was two separate pile ups on I-80 yesterday. If you are planning on going through Wyoming, you will likely be sitting. I am currently at the Love's in Berthoud,CO south of Cheyenne waiting for this to clear. Just a heads up. They are expecting 20 hours minimum and it is still snowing there.

Actually I-80 has been pretty much closed since Thursday. They opened it up briefly and those 2 fairly large accidents happened shortly after and shut the road down again.

MM 261 and 266 Accidents

Laura

Not that it should come as a surprise,

But there was two separate pile ups on I-80 yesterday. If you are planning on going through Wyoming, you will likely be sitting. I am currently at the Love's in Berthoud,CO south of Cheyenne waiting for this to clear. Just a heads up. They are expecting 20 hours minimum and it is still snowing there.

I saw footage of it through The Weather Channel app. It's pretty bad, from the footage.

Every winter in Wyoming drivers get a crash course in winter driving. You'll see a pack of trucks safely driving through a snowstorm at 55 mph when some noob blows past at 70+mph. You scratch your head and wonder how many miles he'll get before you see the tire marks in the snow going off I80. Worst case - which is how the multi-truck accidents happen - the driver sees a wreck, a tree or other obstruction in the freeway but can't stop in time because they're going too fast for conditions or don't have the visibility to spot a hazard and still have enough time to stop the truck. If you can't spot a hazard and safely stop your truck SLOW DOWN!

Typically, the herd of inexperienced or unsafe drivers gets thinned over the winter and you see fewer accidents later in the winter than earlier and those accidents involve fewer trucks.

Dashcam view

Pileup view

Pacific Pearl,

My run to the Port of Oakland CA has me running once east and once west every week. Those drivers that are inexperienced do slide off the road and do get caught up in packs, so do get in wrecks.

The vast majority of drivers that are unsafe by driving faster than the POSTED Variable Speed limits are drivers that have been out here for quite a few years. Listening to them on the CB, they feel they know the roads and the posted speed limit is too slow. However, when it's posted 45 or 55, there is a reason and when drivers blow by me, I generally see them off in the median or barrow pit a few miles ahead of me.

The Metro trailer had passed me about 8 miles earlier doing 65 in a 45. There are 5 trucks in this wreck. PackRat was 3 miles ahead of me and warned me about the different wrecks. Another truck that blew by me a couple miles back ended up going through the highway fence out into the field a mile ahead of me. He was doing 68 in the 45 zone.

Laura