….. to get home for Christmas and be with her family?
The roads were plowed but icy. Dangerous for 4×4 trucks and small cars. She was tailgated on a 4 lane freeway.
I have a 4×4 too with appropriate tires but don’t feel there is any need to get angry and slower drivers.
BK is right….5 O’Clock over here too! Time to talk fishing.
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My daughter, driving home from college for Christmas is driving a small car. Horrible road conditions and she was petrified. She can’t afford a $40-50,000 truck with the “right tires”. Are you suggesting she should stay put and allow only 4×4 trucks to rule the roads? I prayed that she would drive slow and get home safe. She may have inconvenienced the 4×4 trucks by 5-10 minutes, but she got home safe for Christmas. Jeepers….what’s the rush?
No offense, but I’m wondering why she was on the road at all, if she was petrified, why didn’t wait till the roads were better?
Seems you make the OP point, a driver in a vechicle they can’t drive/feel safe in.
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Al
My thoughts exactly… 
big G 
Frustrated at slow drivers? Yes!
Do I require anger management classes? nnnnope! 
I think it’s 5 O Clock somewhere else now…
As long as the slow drivers are licensed(drivers) and insured tax paying citizens they have just as much rite to the road as anybody else. Not everyone can afford the biggest and the best but just like everyone else they probably have somewhere to be, I’m sure they are not just aimlessly driving about just to tick somebody off. Yes I am guilty of being frustrated by the same scenario, but I realize that those slow drivers have just as much rite to the road as I do even if they are driving a $50 Yugo or a $60000 truck 
Did anyone else get out fishing today? I did for about 2 hours 
There is no such thing as being too safe when driving in bad conditions. There is such a thing as driving too fast in bad conditions, or even in good conditions. That is why we see all those little memorials with the crosses and flowers along the side of so many roads and highways where someone was killed. Somebody wasn’t safe enough to prevent killing someone, or themselves.
Drive within your comfort zone, and allow the other people the same right.
My trip down I-94 this afternoon from NW MN, I saw at least half dozen vehicles hit the ditch. Every one of them was a 4×4, majority of those being SUVs.
Unfortunately a couple hit a bad patch of ice under a bridge in Monticello… not sure what else it would’ve been as the roads were sanded and salted and 2 vehicles still went in (one northbound and one southbound) right under that bridge.
I sure hope folks realize that there is a limit as to what good tires can do for you on a highway, whether its snow covered, slush covered, deep snow, or ice. When your vehicle wants to go around, it’ll go around.
Now I’ve been running BFG All-Terrains on my trucks for the last 12+ years. 285 size BFGs on a Sierra still aren’t over 1k so the OP got ripped off IMO.
Back on track… I know what they are capable of and I know when to back off. Clear roads that have a sheen to them are spooky regardless of your tire which is what the interstate was like today. I’d take fresh snow or slush any day of the week.
Your only as confidant as your next fishtail. Slow it down when its necessary and respect that everyone else on the road will probably be the one to fishtail into you. Guess its defensive driving, they teach it in driver’s ed.
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