While many drivers in the latest snow storms in Northern Nevada chain up and take it slow on the roads, no one seems to know the importance of winter safety more than the truck drivers who haul shipment every day.
James Sciscoe is a truck driver from Alabama. He says when you're on the roads as much as he is, he’s bound to hit strong snow storms on his routes.
"I drove over the Rockies several times with my trainer, he showed me how to chain up and that's why we're chained up,” says Sciscoe.
Chaining up is just one of the many safety steps these big rigs take when the roads get slick.
Many drivers also stay away from the Jake brake and keep it extra slow when going down hills.
Sciscoe says driving long distances to deliver a shipment, is all part of the job, but in these kinds of conditions, he says drivers tend to let the drop-off deadline become less important.
He says the priority shifts toward the safety of their own lives and the other drivers around them.
"We were supposed to deliver at 12:00 o’clock today, I weigh about 6,000 lbs. and I'm going to go down the hill at 15 miles per hour. I don’t care, I'm being safe for my family," says Sciscoe.
