37th Parallel (Winter)

Posted by ConsciousAwareness69@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 24 comments

Have any of you ever had luck negotiating with dispatchers/companies telling them you wanna stay south for the winter to avoid snow and ice? Or do you just get a southeast / southwest regional position at that point?

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John9250@reddit

I go where I wanna go. Only problem is it’s hard to stay out of the cold these days. Past few winters have been fucked

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Quynn_Stormcloud@reddit

I mean, if our last winter season is going to be a trend, then you can move that line up to the southern border of Washington State. The only winter I encountered this whole season was going across the Idaho panhandle and back in the middle of March. Everything in Utah and Colorado stayed completely dry.

At any rate, having a policy of “if chains are required, just park until it’s clear” gets you pretty far anyway, without arbitrary restrictions on loads.

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RuneScape420Homie@reddit

Rookie type beat for sure.

If you never want to drive in winter weather then move to Florida and be a local driver.

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jabber1990@reddit

I once asked a company if I could stay in a particular region, so they pulled me off that run, deadheaded me to the terminal on the other side of the country, the terminal manager pulled me into the office and told me very loudly who's name was on the truck, who owned the truck, how things work and "you don't deserve to go home if you're mom didn't teach you this" and I spent the next 2 weeks having a bunch of short runs in that geographical area

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Mindless_Pandemic@reddit

I would have snapped on someone talking to me like that lol. No job's worth being treated like that.

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jabber1990@reddit

...sure you would have

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possibly_lost45@reddit

We run from Ohio to below that line consistently.

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delawder29@reddit

I've actually had pretty good luck with this twice. All I told my dispatcher was that if you can have me home every other weekend that would be awesome but I would love to stay south for the winter if you can do that for me. I think it was around late March when I went north just to bring in a few extra hundred miles just for shits and giggles.

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jabber1990@reddit

it used to be you never heard about snow south of the 37th parallel...and then Global Warming occurred....

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homucifer666@reddit

Even if you could, why would you limit yourself like that? Driving in winter isn't hard; it's just less tolerant of you driving like a jackass.

Also, the northern states are well equipped to keep things moving when the snow starts falling. You see snow and ice in a place like Mississippi, they fucking shut down the roads.

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codespace@reddit

Can confirm Mississippi shuts down the whole state for 2 inches of snow. Ran a farm in Perry County for 10 years before moving to northern Minnesota and both times that it snowed enough to accumulate, it was basically a declared state of emergency.

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