The trophy is back where it belongs in the SEC.
We got some more snow last night and this morning.
The roads got worse. Chain Law is still in effect in more sections of the road.
There are 6 other oversize loads sitting here waiting along with me.
At about 1 PM PST they dropped the chain law on I-84. Most of the oversized loads left, myself included. Roads were real good for quite a while. But then it changed.
I had gone past the "point of no return" when they put chain restrictions back in place. Just a few miles past that photo, traffic came to a stand still. Up ahead at the chain up parking area, along side the road, a driver was putting his chains on his truck. Another truck hit him. They did CPR on him while waiting for the ambulance. Sat there for 2 hours. When I got past that, I stopped and chained up. Once my tire chains were on, I continued. I had cleared it with the Highway Patrol to keep going. Here is a time lapse video of part of my trip. Sorry about the annoying amber warning light.
At about 1 PM PST they dropped the chain law on I-84. Most of the oversized loads left, myself included. Roads were real good for quite a while. But then it changed.
I had gone past the "point of no return" when they put chain restrictions back in place. Just a few miles past that photo, traffic came to a stand still. Up ahead at the chain up parking area, along side the road, a driver was putting his chains on his truck. Another truck hit him. They did CPR on him while waiting for the ambulance. Sat there for 2 hours. When I got past that, I stopped and chained up. Once my tire chains were on, I continued. I had cleared it with the Highway Patrol to keep going. Here is a time lapse video of part of my trip. Sorry about the annoying amber warning light.
Once I got over the mountain and past Cabbage Pass the next problem was where to park. The only place was at Arrowhead truck stop in Pendelton, Oregon. There is also the Wildhorse Casino there with a large truck parking lot. Of course by the time I got there both parking lots were full to capacity and security was turning trucks away and sending them to an overflow area. Fortunately the casino had other property on the other side of the Interstate and they were sending the overflow of trucks over there to park. They also provided a shuttle back to the casino. Here is a video of how I got to, and where I parked for the night. It took 6 hours, 15 minutes to drive 91 miles.
After parking I took the shuttle to the casino and had dinner. Then back to the truck for some much needed sleep. Hopefully the weather and traffic cooperates better tomorrow.
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