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No matter what I did, I could not get up the hill again. I got halfway, then lost momentum.
It was a van, so no weight, and no traction.
My employer refused to send a recovery truck, and told me just to keep trying.
In that second video, why the heck are those people getting out of their cars while it's moving?! Are they nuts? That one girl almost got smashed between 2 cars.
Today I was stuck for first time on a icy hill. Three other vehicles was in front on me also was stuck. What freaked me out was my vehicle was slidding down a steep hill toward a very deep ditch. I was lucky because my vehicle stopped before going into a ditch. I had to get a tow truck to get off the ice.
John
can't say that I have...
not much ice in SW FL, let alone any hills...
Yes been there done that... In fact recently there were some sanding trucks were having to back up a hill sanding as they went... Traffic was completely impeded.
This happened to me a few years ago on the east side of Gatesville, Texas. Unfortunately, I was pulling a trailer with a small farm tractor on it. Luckily we stopped sliding backward before we went into the ditch. We waited until around 3:00 am in the morning when a sand truck finally made out to us and we could again pull back onto the road and get into town to a motel.
I did. I've been driving in snow for 20 years, so I tried all the usual tricks!
I tried forwards and backwards. The van was fwd, and is a model known for particularly poor traction.
The road went through a field, I even tried off the road on the softer snow lying on the grass, but it was just digging in.
There wasn't even any floormats I could take out to lay down.
Worse, there was nobody home at the farm, so I couldn't borrow a shovel, or some salt !!
The recovery truck couldn't even make it up the hill to the farm where I was, never mind further down the road to me !
Eventually they had to call a neighbouring farm to borrow a tractor to pull me out ! It couldn't get traction on the ice, but could on the soft snow.
If the company had bought us winter tyres, it might have been ok, but they refused.
They aren't the best company I ever worked for !!
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