Community Chat

[fthunt]

Your Walmart order may be late............

[Venezia]

I just watched a report about this where a guy was saying that these truck drivers are being given orders and routes by dispatchers.

He made it clear that the big companies don't care about the individual drivers; that the drivers need to do their own checking and plan alternative routes, if they think conditions aren't safe.  But so many of these drivers are doing their jobs to make a living just like the rest of us; the boss says "Go" and they go or someone else will do the job.

I think the ultimate blame lies with whomever was responsible for shutting that stretch of highway down.  Ridiculous to leave it up to individual drivers to decide whether to risk it or not.

We see the aftermath of that!  I pray there are no fatalities.

[RedTop]

@Kachina624 

Truckers do not have complete control over choosing their routes.  Company dispatch not only routes the drivers, but the company also has specific places along that route where drivers can buy their fuel.  

Under this type of extreme weather conditions, drivers would have to contact dispatch regarding traffic and road conditions to either get re-routed, or shut down in a truck stop until the road reopened.  Dispatch would also have to notify the receiving warehouse that the load scheduled to be there tomorrow at 5 a.m. is delayed, with delivery time unknown.  Truck drivers are on a tight schedule on their runs.

[febe1]

I never missed a movie on Donner Pass. Every story just held me tight. What brave men and women crossing in their covered wagons. Never can get enough of it. 

[mspatmac]

I have driven over Donner many times but never without thinking about the covered wagons and the brave people in them.

[Puggywuggy]

BRR...I cannot even imagine! Truly terrifying to a desert dweller such as myself.

[Linmo]

I'm in the SF Bay area.  My neighbors are traveling up there tomorrow because they had prior reservations that they weren't able to cancel.  Personally, i would just not worry about losing the money and stay home!

[Love to Run]

Well, I hope they have snacks...

[Jacie]

I am not very good on geography.

Year's ago on a Nevada vacation we were driving and climbing in altitude and the sky was getting gray and dark, I commented to my husband that I suddenly was no longer seeing other cars,birds or wildlife anymore. Almost an eerie silence.

Shortly thereafter, I said "this is kind of creepy, like we are in Donner's Pass as the storm approached." Not 3 minutes later we came upon the road sign that said Donner's Pass. My husband and I looked at each other with some disbelief, husband said it was right out of an Alfred Hitchcock script! We still laugh about it all these years later!

[depglass]

Isn't Donner Pass known for Pioneers eating each other  because they were so desperate?  Perhaps McDonald's should do an air drop.