Clean off your car

[Food Lady]

Er ... guilty ... *koff* I figure it keeps the tailgaters well back ...

Hee hee--me, too.

[blas]

I've *heard* of these laws about obstruction of view and needing your headlights on at night.

But then again, every white or silver car on the road (save for my silver one) is rolling around at dusk with lights still off. I've said it before and I'll say it again, auto lights were probably invented because people were too stupid to remember to turn them on themselves when they needed to.

[EricKei]

auto lights were probably invented because people were too stupid to remember to turn them on themselves when they needed to.

Agreed.

Besides, when it's raining or foggy during the day, in particular, your lights are supposed to be on more so others can see YOU

[blas]

Even the weather guy gets his man panties in a bundle.

He'll be doing the foreceast, and up until recently, it was the god awful time of year when it was dark well before 5 pm, and he would be showcasing what outside the station looked like as far as road conditions, and he'd point at cars without their lights on and say "Turn on your lights!"

[EricKei]

and he'd point at cars without their lights on and say "Turn on your lights!"

Oh that's awesome ^_^

I can see some of out older meteorologists here (as in, in the job for over half of their natural lives and well past "retirement" age) doing that

[wolfie]

Mount a snowblower on a man-lift that can reach the top of the trailer. You should be able to clear loose snow fairly easily. Maybe an ice breaker on a reach pole for large amounts of ice?

All well and good for a yard (either trucking company or customer with a lot of dropped trailers), and they frequently have snow removal equipment. The trouble is if you have to overnight at a truck stop, rest area, or "couple loads a day" customer, and it snows there. The equipment you mention is to heavy/bulky to be carried in the truck.

[Geek King]

All well and good for a yard (either trucking company or customer with a lot of dropped trailers), and they frequently have snow removal equipment. The trouble is if you have to overnight at a truck stop, rest area, or "couple loads a day" customer, and it snows there. The equipment you mention is to heavy/bulky to be carried in the truck.

Fair enough, though I was just throwing out a quickie idea. Full-on solutions require money to produce.

[Andara Bledin]

I have to wonder, for areas where there's a lot of snowfall, why not put a tarp over the car when it's expected and just drag/roll it off the next day?

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[bhskittykatt]

I have to wonder, for areas where there's a lot of snowfall, why not put a tarp over the car when it's expected and just drag/roll it off the next day?

OH OH OH! You just reminded me of WTF moment that I'd been meaning to post but forgot about until just now. One of my neighbors has a car cover for his pickup. When we got his with snow...every day he cleaned off the car cover over where the windshield was. At first, I was thinking why don't you just take it off and shake the snow off? But...he never drove the car. I couldn't figure out what the point of it was...he was just cleaning off the windshield area....on the car cover....never taking the cover off or driving the car...but he'd be damned if snow got on the windshield even with the cover on!

[dalesys]

I have to wonder, for areas where there's a lot of snowfall, why not put a tarp over the car when it's expected and just drag/roll it off the next day?

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If it's very much of a snowfall: Weight!

If it started slushy and froze... giant ice cube.

Also, having to get up close and personal rasslin' with a covered cover versus standing back and swiping at the snow with a broom?

[Geek King]

I have to wonder, for areas where there's a lot of snowfall, why not put a tarp over the car when it's expected and just drag/roll it off the next day?

Also, lack of a place to store said tarp after you pull it off the car. I have to park across a grassy quad, and if I would drag it back to the apartment, I don't think dragging a snowy or icy tarp into the apartment to melt would endear me to the roomie, the cat, the downstairs neighbor, or the landlord.

[Jetfire]

Weight would be the main reason. Any non trivial amount of snow is HEAVY. And if it's anywhere near the freezing point, the tarp would probably freeze to the car, making it almost impossible to get off without wrecking the paint. If you don't place the tarp properly you may not even be able to safely turn the vehicle on to start melting it.

[downforit2008]

If you think that's bad, watch out for the snow-covered semi-trucks.

Driving west across the country for Christmas in 2007, I was somewhere east of Indianapolis when a semi-truck, double-trailer rig in the other lane was changing lanes going at 65 miles an hour, and this big sheet of snow came peeling off the roof and it was as large as an SUV. It broke in half going through the air and one half smashed into the front of a Toyota Camry behind it and the other piece hit the asphalt of the freeway and disintegrated, spraying snow pieces over my windshield. The Toyota driver seemed to do okay with this though. Thank God he didn't lose control!