ODFL | Huge wreck on I-75

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There was a multi truck accident on I-75 in KY just north of Lexington (exit 129) on Fri the 12th. The only truck with enough left to it that I could see to make out who they were was a Jevic truck and he was carrying haz mat which resulted in a spill. I did not have my CB so I knew nothing about it and got to sit in line for 6 hours. I was enroute from Columbus to Williamsburg KY on a meet and turn. We let central know when we got rolling and they rerouted us to MRT. The day pretty much sucked but it was a good experience for my trainee. He got to tackle a "real" hill on 25E, at least bigger than any of the others he is going to get with the rest of his training, and he got to see what it was like on an over night trip. By the time it was all said and done, it took us 13 hours to go from COH to MRT.

Did anyone else here get stuck in that mess?
 
I was coming up I-75 from MRT and heard about it on the radio. I was going west onto I-64 so I avoided it but heard it was bad.
They should have let you take your trainee on a Charlotte or Greensboro from MRT, then he could have gotten in the gorge, Black Mtn, or Saluda.
 
I went to the Jevic forum, unfortunatly the Jevic driver was killed. He was close to his 61st birthday and close to retirement. a very sad situation.......25E can be an interesting road. It is pretty thru there. I had Haz Mat one day and had to stop at the tunnel and sign in and the shut down the road and escorted me thru. 10 years of driving and that was a new experience for me.
 
What's really weird is at night many times they close one tube of the tunnel for maintenance and route both lanes thru one tube, when you stop with haz-mat they just tell you to go on through no escort or stopping traffic.
 
With Navajo we to drop airbags before approaching Eisenhower because the trucks wouls set off alarm. You also had to take into effect height of antenna's as well. they would come out and run around the trailer with a measuring device to see if you actually cleared otherwise it was over the top. I've ran most of them does anyone know if the others are height restricted like old ike ?. Never liked them myself because usually had hazmat and meant up and over or around and up and over.
 
Kodiak said:
The day pretty much sucked but it was a good experience for my trainee. He got to tackle a "real" hill on 25E, at least bigger than any of the others he is going to get with the rest of his training, and he got to see what it was like on an over night trip. By the time it was all said and done, it took us 13 hours to go from COH to MRT.

What constitutes a "real hill"?
 
Sling Blade said:
What constitutes a "real hill"?
One big enough where my trainne could actually practice some mountain breaking. The biggest hill I have on my run is "The cut in the hill" as you are going north on I-75 into Cin. Its big enough to get your speed up but it is not long enough to get any good practice out of it.
 
Beeman said:
They should have let you take your trainee on a Charlotte or Greensboro from MRT, then he could have gotten in the gorge, Black Mtn, or Saluda.
By the time we got to MRT we had less than an hour left on out 14. Remember, I started the day out on a meet and turn so we didn't have any clean clothes and I really wanted to get back to COH. I don't know about you, but I just hate wearing the same underwear and socks 2 for days in a row.
 
Kodiak said:
By the time we got to MRT we had less than an hour left on out 14. Remember, I started the day out on a meet and turn so we didn't have any clean clothes and I really wanted to get back to COH. I don't know about you, but I just hate wearing the same underwear and socks 2 for days in a row.

They now sell underwear and socks in TN.
 
Kodiak said:
One big enough where my trainne could actually practice some mountain breaking. The biggest hill I have on my run is "The cut in the hill" as you are going north on I-75 into Cin. Its big enough to get your speed up but it is not long enough to get any good practice out of it.

Like E/B I-68 in MD approaching Cumberland? 6% for 13 miles.

How about W/B US-40 in PA approaching Uniontown? The sign only says "Very Steep Grade" but my guess is 9 or 10% for about 5 miles.

And the WORST place in the world to lose your brakes? In my opinion, this would be E/B MD-135 approaching Westernport. 9% for 5 miles and this road ends at a T into the side of another mountain. In other words, if it happens here you're a dead man, because you'll soon be getting a face full of granite wall. Quite a few crosses painted there...

You can kill yourself on all of those if your not careful. I salute you for teaching him the importance of descending hills safely. All drivers should be trained at this, but unfortunately too few are.
 
I learned to drive trucks on those roads in Western Maryland and Pa. I agree that T at the bottom of 135 by Westvaco mill is the worst to lose brakes, your only hope is to jump and pray you live, because thier is nowhere else to go.
 
I used to run Cleveland to Snowshoe PA, and all the big riggers would be racing to NY and wreck in the middle of a snowstorm and shut down I-80. So we would have to "go thru the woods" thru Clearfield Pa with a set of doubles in a blizzard. You stop at the top of the hill and read the "warning sign" and away you go. There are intersections all the way down the hill. It can be a little scary.
 
The biggest hill I tackle daily is Mineola hill near th 170 MM on I70 between KCY and STL. I have one time came out of LA to Las Vegas in a OD team tractor and between SLC and DEN in same truck at night I was to sleepy and should not have driven it but did anyway. That was the end of my test of a team tractor career I can not sleep in a moving vehicle period....

Driving through southern Utah is really great.
 
Never did team, never will, nothing about that excites me. Me and another guy are going to run the 3 day memorial weekend. Were gonna do CLE to STL, got to bed/ get up and turn KCY/go to bed and get up Monday and head to Cle, so I guess Ill be in your neck of the woods.
 
Well when you run STL to KCY and get caught in the groves and hit the buckled pavement you can think of me. Because I have driven a good share of that stretch with heavy freight out of the NE and south.
 
sparky said:
Well when you run STL to KCY and get caught in the groves and hit the buckled pavement you can think of me. Because I have driven a good share of that stretch with heavy freight out of the NE and south.

Can't be much worse than parts of the damn PA Turnpike...
 
Sling Blade said:
Me neither. If I were ever to get stuck with a partner, I think I'd be looking for a place to get rid of him as soon as I smelled a fart that wasn't one of mine.
oh you must be a smart feller not a fart smeller!I have been around with this co and those mtns out west are the worst!smoked alot of cigs and brakes at the same time!some of those hills i have been on a jake would have come in very handy!
 
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