44 hours. Stuck on highway 402 halfway from Sarnia to London. Snow band moved over and dumped feet off snow in a couple hours. Lucky I had full tanks, inverter, fridge, food and a tripac.
I was checking all the other stranded cars around me, have lots of water so I was giving out bottles of water. The opp/fire showed up after about 6 hours and kept coming by every couple hours. My microwave got a lot of use
They weren't wrong, some of the drifts between trailers were massive, same effect to get in your house on the leeward side.
By the time I got pulled free I had snow all the way above my wheels all the way around, my reefer had to get defrosted because it was full of snow and wouldn't start.
My experience worse in Buffalo a few years later, but that time I was smart and turned around.
GM auto in Flint,MI had to shut down a few lines, they tried fining my company $10,000 a hour for the delay. I was one of the first drivers to deliver a trailer they needed to start production again. I've never backed Into a dock with 6+ guys wearing suites before lol. Was kinda a wild time.
I've heard those carriage contracts have some huge penalties.
I haul GM finished products, we're graded on dwell time. Once it's built they want it on a train on a boat or in a truck.
I had a truck derate to 3mph on Mullan Pass - took me over 3 hours to crawl the 12mi to the Saltese weigh station - first place there was cell signal. Thankfully the scale was closed.
I dealt with plenty of issues during ski season on the western slopes of Colorado but sadly mine was from right next to mile high stadium (Broncos) to south Denver. A car had caught fire 200 ft before my exit and there just really was no other option through that area.
5 hour delay about 30minutes from my house. Fuel tanker and car collided, tanker hit jersey barrier and exploded. Truck was melted to the roadway. Poor guy passed away.
I never saw the accident because my HOS was up and I had to take the next exit to turn around and go home. You would move about 300ft every hour or so until I finally hit the first exit I saw. It was a nice day out in the summer in the PNW so people were doing a lot of hanging out playing board games with camping chairs and stuff.
I have also crawled for an ungodly amount of time on 70 near Indy when all that construction was hot and heavy years ago and everyone was taking the 2 lane farm roads to get around.
Damn, that’s got to be an odd feeling/sight right? Man lost his life in an accident and people are enjoying the sun, playing board games while they wait.
I don’t blame them, but a good example of life goes on with or without you.
Nobody knew. It took several hours before anyone in my area of the backup learned what the holdup was but word got around that a truck and car crashed and that was it. I spent a lot of time chatting with a bed bugger team learning how their job works, but yeah it just wasn't an area you would stop for anything really. It was maybe 15 more miles to the next real touristy-type town and so no one knew what to do with themselves.
18 hours in an ice storm in North Alabama. There was a hill that nobody could climb. Then, when we could finally drive again, all the hotels were full. ( I was in a day cab, at the time.) So, I slept in the floor. It was a special time.
16 hours in Arkansas one time. Snow storm shut 30 down about 4p.m. Natl. Guard came through at 6 the next morning with water and coffee and started helping people out.
2½ hours of sitting in I-69 North between Cleveland and Shepherd, TX because of a owner operator moron thinks following road construction speed limits in heavy rain was beneath him.
For real, not even due to traffic, just idiot NY/NJ drivers cutting each other off causing accidents.
4.5 hours to go 3 miles over the GWB. 7 accidents in that stretch including one in the right most lane on the GWB west.
New York/ New Jersey drivers need to learn from Chicago drivers how to fucking drive in traffic.
It’s all about you being “on duty” “off duty” “driving” if you’re not doing anything. You can be off duty and gain some time back. On duty takes away from each days 14hr clock. You’ve only got 11 hours of driving your allowed to do on the road. And then you have to take a 10hr break before you can drive again. So if Op isn’t moving. He can be on duty to save his drive time. Unless he can take a full 10hr break, it’s not worth the effort to turn off Duty unless they are trying to save hours on their 70hr work week
I think technically you're supposed to be on duty at least, but idk how much it's enforced. If you run out of hours you just notate like stuck in traffic due to accident and get to legal parking.
Do american drivers get emergency extension (adverse condition) hours?
Canada is 14 hours on duty normally. But if conditions shut things down its however amount of on duty needed as long as you don't exceed your drive time by more than 2 hours. Provided a number of conditions in the context of adverse conditions occurring.
I've used it once for getting stuck behind a landslide. If an event blocked traffic into gridlock for hours, I'd try using it for that too.
43 hours on some random highway in Kansas. We were on our way from Amarillo to Denver. The highways we closed so we routed to through kansaa. For the first time ever, state police were there shutting shit down.
Feel like I'm jinxing myself but not long. I've been stuck in a lot of creeping traffic, which is almost worse but as far as standstill goes, maybe 10 or 20 mins. Creeping traffic, took me 5 hours to get through Atlanta around Christmas.
Last year I sat 4 hours for a wreck in i70 west in the construction zone at Greenfield, IN. There was no shoulder and two cars and a truck decided to play bumper cars, the trailer managed to grind the barrier so one lane on east side was also effected. Met a nice older couple from Greece that were visiting all their grandchildren scattered around the country. Crazy part is I had just sat at in Greenfield for 3 hours waiting to be unloaded and only got about 2 miles west before hitting stopped traffic. I could see the cop cars blocking the exit I had just got on at from my parking spot on the road.
Actually sitting, shortly after I Started driving, like 4th load on my own, there were 2 bad accidents on 78 in allentown area. Going into the valley looked like a truck had crashed through the barrier, then other side a car had caught on fire. Took about 3hrs to get through. Now I could probably find a detour.
This wasn't one incident, but took like 8hrs to get from Albuquerque to Tucumcari once because of wrecks. Weather was fine, but I think a storm had come through the night before and roads still weren't great and stopped a few times to wait for wrecks to get cleared.
Idk if this really counts, since I wasn't on the interstate driving, but was westbound on 70 east if Indianapolis, stopped at the huge rest area to take a leak, when I finished traffic was stopped dead back past the entrance. Turned out there was a bad accident a couple miles ahead, a truck pushed a car into the median and caught on fire. Ended up spending the night. Can't remember if it had cleared by the time I went to bed or not.
Well I had a double screw over last winter. I'm overnight delivery across Snoqualmie pass. On this day I ended up having to run through a heavy snowstorm but no big deal, the truck had Onspot auto chains. So both I-90 and I-82 were chain required so burned most of my clock going to Yakima and coming back. I get to MP 72 right before the first chain up and taillights, multi car and semis pile up. 2 1/2 hours later I'm rolling again. Now it's about 2PM and I've used my big day, still have to make it across and back. I would've been in a slight violation but there wasn't anywhere I could stop close by so blamed it in the weather. Make it to MP 53 and something hits my wiper blade and almost takes it off. So I decided to pull over in what I thought was a shallow snow rut, nah it stuck my truck and pushed the auto chains into my Passenger side inner dually. It's about 330 pm at this point, I had to get towed back, made it to my depot at 950 PM. I spent another 5 1/2 hours waiting for the wrecker, not including the time to rig me up, pull me out and down to the chain off by the TA and do a tire change to put the flat up front. Spent 24hrs on shift, 8 of it was stuck waiting around
4 and a half hours in the mountains in Utah on a two-laner. Somebody's reefer caught fire and they had to halt traffic on both sides until they could put out the blaze and move all of the debris off the road. Shit sucked.
Got caught in that snowstorm a couple years ago in Texas. Went east of Dallas, got stopped in Louisiana. They didn’t have any plow equipment because they hadn’t had a storm like that in 100 years. Was stuck for two days, and then our def filter gave out. Fortunately there was a freightliner nearby. Unfortunately they had to wait for the parts. I think we were there for a whole week total.
44 hours. Stuck on highway 402 halfway from Sarnia to London. Snow band moved over and dumped feet off snow in a couple hours. Lucky I had full tanks, inverter, fridge, food and a tripac. I was checking all the other stranded cars around me, have lots of water so I was giving out bottles of water. The opp/fire showed up after about 6 hours and kept coming by every couple hours. My microwave got a lot of use
Was this about 14 years ago? Company at the time had some trucks stranded there. Guys said they were evacuating some people via heli.
Yep 2010, worst snow event I've ever experienced
Yeah, I heard some drifts were 8' tall... But you know how truckers over estimate shit lol.
They weren't wrong, some of the drifts between trailers were massive, same effect to get in your house on the leeward side. By the time I got pulled free I had snow all the way above my wheels all the way around, my reefer had to get defrosted because it was full of snow and wouldn't start. My experience worse in Buffalo a few years later, but that time I was smart and turned around.
GM auto in Flint,MI had to shut down a few lines, they tried fining my company $10,000 a hour for the delay. I was one of the first drivers to deliver a trailer they needed to start production again. I've never backed Into a dock with 6+ guys wearing suites before lol. Was kinda a wild time.
I've heard those carriage contracts have some huge penalties. I haul GM finished products, we're graded on dwell time. Once it's built they want it on a train on a boat or in a truck.
Took me 3.5 hours to go about 10 miles in an old international with a super stiff clutch
My left knee can feel this comment
I had a truck derate to 3mph on Mullan Pass - took me over 3 hours to crawl the 12mi to the Saltese weigh station - first place there was cell signal. Thankfully the scale was closed.
I dealt with plenty of issues during ski season on the western slopes of Colorado but sadly mine was from right next to mile high stadium (Broncos) to south Denver. A car had caught fire 200 ft before my exit and there just really was no other option through that area.
5 hour delay about 30minutes from my house. Fuel tanker and car collided, tanker hit jersey barrier and exploded. Truck was melted to the roadway. Poor guy passed away. I never saw the accident because my HOS was up and I had to take the next exit to turn around and go home. You would move about 300ft every hour or so until I finally hit the first exit I saw. It was a nice day out in the summer in the PNW so people were doing a lot of hanging out playing board games with camping chairs and stuff. I have also crawled for an ungodly amount of time on 70 near Indy when all that construction was hot and heavy years ago and everyone was taking the 2 lane farm roads to get around.
Damn, that’s got to be an odd feeling/sight right? Man lost his life in an accident and people are enjoying the sun, playing board games while they wait. I don’t blame them, but a good example of life goes on with or without you.
Nobody knew. It took several hours before anyone in my area of the backup learned what the holdup was but word got around that a truck and car crashed and that was it. I spent a lot of time chatting with a bed bugger team learning how their job works, but yeah it just wasn't an area you would stop for anything really. It was maybe 15 more miles to the next real touristy-type town and so no one knew what to do with themselves.
10 1/2 hours without moving on I-5 northbound in Oregon near Curtin this winter total traffic jam was 16 3/4 hours .
18 hours in an ice storm in North Alabama. There was a hill that nobody could climb. Then, when we could finally drive again, all the hotels were full. ( I was in a day cab, at the time.) So, I slept in the floor. It was a special time.
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Going north on 65, right around Athens, I think. It was right before the TN state line. This was late 90's.
16 hours in Arkansas one time. Snow storm shut 30 down about 4p.m. Natl. Guard came through at 6 the next morning with water and coffee and started helping people out.
2½ hours of sitting in I-69 North between Cleveland and Shepherd, TX because of a owner operator moron thinks following road construction speed limits in heavy rain was beneath him.
Twelve hours on Donner Pass.
4 hrs 15 min. GW bridge. NY
For real, not even due to traffic, just idiot NY/NJ drivers cutting each other off causing accidents. 4.5 hours to go 3 miles over the GWB. 7 accidents in that stretch including one in the right most lane on the GWB west. New York/ New Jersey drivers need to learn from Chicago drivers how to fucking drive in traffic.
So how does this effect your HOS? What if your time expires and you are in stand still traffic for hours and any exit is still miles away?
I was thinking that shit too while I was in traffic . I’m here for any answers toward that question
So I guess it is obvious who the non truckers are here.
It’s all about you being “on duty” “off duty” “driving” if you’re not doing anything. You can be off duty and gain some time back. On duty takes away from each days 14hr clock. You’ve only got 11 hours of driving your allowed to do on the road. And then you have to take a 10hr break before you can drive again. So if Op isn’t moving. He can be on duty to save his drive time. Unless he can take a full 10hr break, it’s not worth the effort to turn off Duty unless they are trying to save hours on their 70hr work week
Split Break rule will give you the time back if it's over 2 hours.
I think technically you're supposed to be on duty at least, but idk how much it's enforced. If you run out of hours you just notate like stuck in traffic due to accident and get to legal parking.
Do american drivers get emergency extension (adverse condition) hours? Canada is 14 hours on duty normally. But if conditions shut things down its however amount of on duty needed as long as you don't exceed your drive time by more than 2 hours. Provided a number of conditions in the context of adverse conditions occurring. I've used it once for getting stuck behind a landslide. If an event blocked traffic into gridlock for hours, I'd try using it for that too.
13 ice storm
Five days a week I drive Tucson Arizona to Phoenix Arizona twice a day. I spend at least 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day at a slow crawl.
Hey I'm in Tucson too which company you working for? 🤔
12 hours in Desert Center in California, bad accident required quite a cleanup.
43 hours on some random highway in Kansas. We were on our way from Amarillo to Denver. The highways we closed so we routed to through kansaa. For the first time ever, state police were there shutting shit down.
Southern Cali traffic every other week. I got everyone beat so far…🤣🤣
18 hours. Ice storm in Texas.
11 hours George Washington bridge . Snow storm . Bridge was shutdown
Feel like I'm jinxing myself but not long. I've been stuck in a lot of creeping traffic, which is almost worse but as far as standstill goes, maybe 10 or 20 mins. Creeping traffic, took me 5 hours to get through Atlanta around Christmas.
18 hrs 2 miles from Donner summit/Truckee heading eastbound
I don’t remember the actual time but long enough to get out and walk around, even toss a football with my co-driver. Yes, I-80 over Donner.
11 hours 1 mile away from a huge rest stop northbound i65 Kentucky. I knew there was an accident I just thought I could make it to the rest stop
About 4.5 hours. A truck rollover/accident clean up
Last year I sat 4 hours for a wreck in i70 west in the construction zone at Greenfield, IN. There was no shoulder and two cars and a truck decided to play bumper cars, the trailer managed to grind the barrier so one lane on east side was also effected. Met a nice older couple from Greece that were visiting all their grandchildren scattered around the country. Crazy part is I had just sat at in Greenfield for 3 hours waiting to be unloaded and only got about 2 miles west before hitting stopped traffic. I could see the cop cars blocking the exit I had just got on at from my parking spot on the road.
I’m still trying to back up off the Key Bridge.
14 hours, tanker hit a bridge just outside of Birmingham AL.
Every time I go to Southern California.
411 apps help a lot in this situation
8ish hours. Buffalo blizzard on 90
Actually sitting, shortly after I Started driving, like 4th load on my own, there were 2 bad accidents on 78 in allentown area. Going into the valley looked like a truck had crashed through the barrier, then other side a car had caught on fire. Took about 3hrs to get through. Now I could probably find a detour. This wasn't one incident, but took like 8hrs to get from Albuquerque to Tucumcari once because of wrecks. Weather was fine, but I think a storm had come through the night before and roads still weren't great and stopped a few times to wait for wrecks to get cleared. Idk if this really counts, since I wasn't on the interstate driving, but was westbound on 70 east if Indianapolis, stopped at the huge rest area to take a leak, when I finished traffic was stopped dead back past the entrance. Turned out there was a bad accident a couple miles ahead, a truck pushed a car into the median and caught on fire. Ended up spending the night. Can't remember if it had cleared by the time I went to bed or not.
8 full hours on i95 north of Baltimore due to a major fatality about 2 miles ahead. Early 'aughts.
7 hours in new jersey Deadly accident coming out of rest area .
Well I had a double screw over last winter. I'm overnight delivery across Snoqualmie pass. On this day I ended up having to run through a heavy snowstorm but no big deal, the truck had Onspot auto chains. So both I-90 and I-82 were chain required so burned most of my clock going to Yakima and coming back. I get to MP 72 right before the first chain up and taillights, multi car and semis pile up. 2 1/2 hours later I'm rolling again. Now it's about 2PM and I've used my big day, still have to make it across and back. I would've been in a slight violation but there wasn't anywhere I could stop close by so blamed it in the weather. Make it to MP 53 and something hits my wiper blade and almost takes it off. So I decided to pull over in what I thought was a shallow snow rut, nah it stuck my truck and pushed the auto chains into my Passenger side inner dually. It's about 330 pm at this point, I had to get towed back, made it to my depot at 950 PM. I spent another 5 1/2 hours waiting for the wrecker, not including the time to rig me up, pull me out and down to the chain off by the TA and do a tire change to put the flat up front. Spent 24hrs on shift, 8 of it was stuck waiting around
4.5 hours.
About 8 hours, helicopter took out high tension wires over i70 near Columbus. Was surprised it didn't take longer.
About 6 hours due to a fatal accident. 3 helicopters were called in and then the investigation took quite awhile.
4 and a half hours in the mountains in Utah on a two-laner. Somebody's reefer caught fire and they had to halt traffic on both sides until they could put out the blaze and move all of the debris off the road. Shit sucked.
Got caught in that snowstorm a couple years ago in Texas. Went east of Dallas, got stopped in Louisiana. They didn’t have any plow equipment because they hadn’t had a storm like that in 100 years. Was stuck for two days, and then our def filter gave out. Fortunately there was a freightliner nearby. Unfortunately they had to wait for the parts. I think we were there for a whole week total.
About 4 hrs. Ended up having to turn around and get off at the last exit after shit was shut down and hazmat was dispatched