Icy/Snowy Driving Conditions

Icy/Snow Driving:

Mostly intended for our fire fighters as they travel on the roads during these conditions, there's a few safety tips to remember:

1) Watch the use of the "jake brake". Using a jake brake and/or misusing a jake can seriously jeopardize the traction on the truck you're operating. Make sure you know what you're doing before engaging the jake.

2) Give yourself at least three times more space to stop. As we all know, it takes forever to slow a big-truck down. That the space you normally use and multiply that times three to safeguard yourselves and those around you.

3) Also, as we always try to do, put your truck between you and the most dangerous of on-coming traffic. If you're on Rt. 119 work in front of the truck with traffic coming behind you. That piece of apparatus can take a lot more a hit than our personnel can!

and check out these other tips:

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