Had a similar situation on I-70 several years ago. But this was just north of downtown St. Louis. A blizzard had come through and there was an icy patch at the bottom of a small hill. The trucks couldn't get traction to get up it and backed up traffic while the state road crews worked on the patch. Quite a mess. I'm sure up in the mountains it's very common. Stay safe on the roads out there and thank you for all the video!
The dead pine trees aren't burnt. They are dead from pine beetles. They've actually been a massive problem recently because it doesn't get as cold as often anymore(we're talking like a solid week below like 20f ) they don't die as much as they should. Thus they've been running rampant the last 20-30 years
Actually they figured out the population of birds that eat the beetles are in decline so they got out of control. They are trying to repopulate the birds
Forest fires, or the lack thereof. Pine forests are supposed to burn every 25 to 30 years. When they burn, the big mature trees survive the fire. Only small trees and underbrush burn. The large trees are healthy enough to fight off pine beetle infestation. There is space between all the mature trees. But, fires have been put out for a hundred years. Trees are crowded and unhealthy. They can't fight off pine beetles anymore. So much fuel has built up in the forest, the fires are now catastrophic and none of the trees survive.
Haha...there's another channel I watch on YT called "Riding Shotgun" by a trucker. He films as he's driving and talks. That's it. I love it. So I really enjoyed this!
It must have been soo boring in that traffic jam. I hope you had a deck of cards. I have never seen a truck give a push to a semi. That was neat to see. I should have known you would have a CB, Post. Cool! Seeing the mountain you were driving towards near the end was just Wow to me. Thanks for the video!
Hey, that was really awesome! That stretch of road between 19:00 and 20:00 is the road that "TFL Truck" uses for their "IKE gauntlet" video series, basically a torture test for Trucks towing heavy trailers
The test at how much you are loved? When your youtube family will sit through a winter traffic jam with you. ;) lol Thanks for sharing and be safe out there!!!
i've travelled that highway in the summer through the mountains, i can how it'd be tricky in the winter!
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Great video! I miss living out there, but do not miss that traffic! Many of the dead pine trees in the Rockies are also due to the pine beetle. Once an area is infected it is very hard to contain.
For cb radio fix you need an in-line power filter Common Fixes. If you have a noise blocker or automatic noise limiter feature (NB/ANL) on your CB, make sure this feature is enabled. If possible, try to wire the CB power leads directly to the battery. This will reduce the likelihood of electrical noise from other systems entering your CB through the power leads
Hey Post10! You are truly amazing! We love your video's and watch them every day! Thanks for your amazing work both taking the video's and editing them! We enjoy your explorations, as we're too old now to go to the places you visit! Love and Hugs from Dawn Lynn and Larry from Ottawa Canada
Hello from Colorado! As a native I can tell you, driving I70 during crash traffic is the worst lol but even more terrifying in the snow. I'm an Uber driver and I don't trust a single person on the roads out there so I stay home when it snows pretty often
About 1.7 miles...not fun having your car die in there. I speak from experience, although the CDOT push truck was there in about a minute and pushed me out quickly.
I've been through there multiple times driving to and from Indy to Utah, once from California. Amazing video BTW. Also when you get back to doing more clogged culverts will you or can you show us a leech? I've never really seen one before, which would be awesome to share with us if you feel ok doing that??.. If you have a video of any of those leeches let me know. I really appreciate what you do. I thought of you this past weekend bc we had a lot of rain and a lot of flooding everywhere. LoL I was like maybe I should make a video to show you how much flooding we had here. I live downtown Indy and really close to the White River and close to Lucas oil stadium, where the colt's play.
As I lay here watching you go thru tunnell @20:16 all I'm thinking about is what it would look like if water was running thru this giant culvert, slash tunnel!!! hahaha
I didn't think that pick up would be able to push the big truck. Looks like they've done it plenty of times. Good thing you stayed behind so they were able to help
Manitoba, Canada - our plows have similar lights - you tend to think the police have the road blocked at first, until you realize it's just a plow doing their thing.
Those automatic semi trucks are horrible in winter, I hate driving them. Sucks that my company is only running automatics now, I miss driving manual transmissions.
@@beorlingo Loose rhymes with moose. lose rhymes with booze. English has stupid rules. Also of all the youtubers out there Post is the one who values his use of the language otherwise I wouldn't bother.
Well that was a mess! It could have been terrible if any of those big rigs had actually colidded where they lost tracktion. It seems like when it first starts accumulating on the road people just continue flying full speed. Surface conditions have changed drastically. Simply attempting a lane change could cause total chaos! 9x outta 10 the first thing people do when their vehicle is out of control... They smash the brakes! Making a bad situation into a 17 car pile-up. I know you're back home now from your travels. Continue your cautious driving skills, be safe & be ready for that dingus driver clueless of forethought when driving.
Hey Dave I do sincerely apologize for missing ya in leavenworth,WA if your ever back in town Id like to buy you a beer at the icicle brewery and the best poke ever is at Yodelin broth!
trying to figure out your location in Colorado. I've taken Amtrak to Utah and to Denver (son lives in downtown Denver) from Iowa. I-70 and Amtrak follow the same path in areas of Colorado. So I'm going to guess you bypassed Iowa completely on this trip out west! You probably passed through the great state of Indiana (my birthplace and life for 37 yrs) at some point though :) You missed nothing in Iowa by the way! I live in a Dutch town but otherwise, rural state.
Iowa isn't entirely a rural state. I've lived here about 41 years and never lived outside a town or city lol not saying they haven't been SMALL but, ya know
@@mystic_tacos I'm in Pella. I moved here from Indianapolis so it all seems pretty rural to me. not complaining but ti's not a 24/7 world here in Iowa!!
Did you through those truckers any hard look's after they blocked that road for hours? Those ding-a-lings should have had chains on before attempting to climb that icy grade.
It always gets like that around the people repulik of denver, we have chain laws for this time of yr, but most of the komrades from denver ignore them because they are better than everyone else.
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Beautiful, colorful Colorado. I miss you., Colorado. Thanks for traveling to that place. Love those mountain scenery and tunnels.
Had a similar situation on I-70 several years ago. But this was just north of downtown St. Louis. A blizzard had come through and there was an icy patch at the bottom of a small hill. The trucks couldn't get traction to get up it and backed up traffic while the state road crews worked on the patch. Quite a mess. I'm sure up in the mountains it's very common. Stay safe on the roads out there and thank you for all the video!
Thanks for taking us along on your travels.
The dead pine trees aren't burnt. They are dead from pine beetles. They've actually been a massive problem recently because it doesn't get as cold as often anymore(we're talking like a solid week below like 20f ) they don't die as much as they should. Thus they've been running rampant the last 20-30 years
Actually they figured out the population of birds that eat the beetles are in decline so they got out of control. They are trying to repopulate the birds
Forest fires, or the lack thereof. Pine forests are supposed to burn every 25 to 30 years. When they burn, the big mature trees survive the fire. Only small trees and underbrush burn. The large trees are healthy enough to fight off pine beetle infestation. There is space between all the mature trees.
But, fires have been put out for a hundred years. Trees are crowded and unhealthy. They can't fight off pine beetles anymore.
So much fuel has built up in the forest, the fires are now catastrophic and none of the trees survive.
@@TheBandit7613 never heard this before my understanding was that it was the lack of cold. do you have some links/research talking about this more?
Haha...there's another channel I watch on YT called "Riding Shotgun" by a trucker. He films as he's driving and talks. That's it. I love it. So I really enjoyed this!
It must have been soo boring in that traffic jam. I hope you had a deck of cards. I have never seen a truck give a push to a semi. That was neat to see. I should have known you would have a CB, Post. Cool! Seeing the mountain you were driving towards near the end was just Wow to me. Thanks for the video!
An interesting journey. Thanks. Chris from England
Hey, that was really awesome!
That stretch of road between 19:00 and 20:00 is the road that "TFL Truck" uses for their "IKE gauntlet" video series, basically a torture test for Trucks towing heavy trailers
Good eye
How the heck did you respond 11 days ago? lol So weird.
@@technoforever888 join his Patreon! It's in his you've channels' about page
I love the fact that someone still uses a CB radio!
The test at how much you are loved? When your youtube family will sit through a winter traffic jam with you. ;) lol Thanks for sharing and be safe out there!!!
Pretty cool pushing the truck
i've travelled that highway in the summer through the mountains, i can how it'd be tricky in the winter!
Great video! I miss living out there, but do not miss that traffic!
Many of the dead pine trees in the Rockies are also due to the pine beetle. Once an area is infected it is very hard to contain.
Impressive driving skills and I admire your patience . ❤😎👏
I love love love this highway. I’ll be going this way in 2 weeks back to SoCal after being in Northeast Pa for 2 months.
Love the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 in GOD’s Country Colorado. 👍🙏
These driving videos like this and the Upstate New York ones are pretty cool, Post.
For cb radio fix you need an in-line power filter
Common Fixes. If you have a noise blocker or automatic noise limiter feature (NB/ANL) on your CB, make sure this feature is enabled. If possible, try to wire the CB power leads directly to the battery. This will reduce the likelihood of electrical noise from other systems entering your CB through the power leads
Traffic jams equals torture for me. At least you had pretty snow to look at.
Love the content you keep it coming appreciate it
Thanks for the ride Post 10 👍Another terrific video.
Loving your traveling videos. Very interesting and entertaining. Thanks for the awesome content.
Hey Post10!
You are truly amazing! We love your video's and watch them every day!
Thanks for your amazing work both taking the video's and editing them!
We enjoy your explorations, as we're too old now to go to the places you visit!
Love and Hugs from Dawn Lynn and Larry from Ottawa Canada
Lmao I was just driving a bus through that stretch of road this morning/afternoon. Welcome to Colorado!
Pretty cool video, great scenery!
Was just there in my semi lucky I missed all the snow lol
I do like the tunnels theu the mountains.. beautiful going in n coming out of them
I live here! (In Golden CO, like 5 minutes from where I-70 pops out of the mountains) This crap happens ALL the time
Hello from Colorado! As a native I can tell you, driving I70 during crash traffic is the worst lol but even more terrifying in the snow. I'm an Uber driver and I don't trust a single person on the roads out there so I stay home when it snows pretty often
I used to live in Grand Junction. I’ve driven that stretch of I-70 so many times. It can get treacherous.
Great video. We love POST 10!
Your travel videos are awesome! Thanks.
You,make being stuck in a traffic jam. Fun to watch🥰
OMG 3 in a row and that was great to see the truck pushing the artic and you in that spot was 100% epic
Thank you for driving American Highways Post, Always great to see you out and about.
I sit here in Norway, see that miniscule amount of snow on the ground and think "how bad are his tyres if he manages to spin out on that?" lol
Always makes you feel superior to make fun of other people's problems, doesn't it?
@@mq5276 Are you new to the internet?
That tunnel at the end was the longest I've seen omg
It's the Eisenhower Tunnel. Longest tunnel in the US if I'm remembering correctly. Also goes between the continental divide
About 1.7 miles...not fun having your car die in there. I speak from experience, although the CDOT push truck was there in about a minute and pushed me out quickly.
Post had the old cruise control set at 35 in there. 😅
@@Dontreadthis0 Isn't it also the highest highway tunnel in elevation?
@@stewie3128 for US highways for sure. I cannot think of any location in the US where a highway is that high in elevation
Watching the sped up video of driving......looks like you are on the LeMans track passing everyone lol
The plow trucks have amber & blue as well here in MN
Awesome tunnels and snowcapped peaks
I've been through there multiple times driving to and from Indy to Utah, once from California. Amazing video BTW. Also when you get back to doing more clogged culverts will you or can you show us a leech? I've never really seen one before, which would be awesome to share with us if you feel ok doing that??.. If you have a video of any of those leeches let me know. I really appreciate what you do. I thought of you this past weekend bc we had a lot of rain and a lot of flooding everywhere. LoL I was like maybe I should make a video to show you how much flooding we had here. I live downtown Indy and really close to the White River and close to Lucas oil stadium, where the colt's play.
He has a pet leech at home!
Should have left driving scenes at normal speed. Its enjoyable to just watch driving. Especially when you've driven through the same area.
Nothing like front row seats in the comfort of your warm truck to see a semi being pushed. That was cool 😎
From Grand junction to Denver pretty much.
man those whippers are flying lol
Great video Post
In Texas, the utility vehicles have same lights as emergency vehicles. I am from California, the lights really threw me for a loop at first.
Great video !
How have things been going for you post? Hope all is well!
Mostly well. Thanks for asking and watching
14:50 ... probably lightly loaded.
Whenever it is snowing I take the backroads
Do you use a 4 x 4 or just a car?
Those semi's w/o chains should get a ticket.
you know how trains have a tank of sand to provide grip when going up hills? do semi trucks have something similar?
Thanks for the ride Post 10
I would be afraid of those nasty pile ups they get... Very safe travels...🙏🏻
Stay safe Post10, wow you should grab a room for the night.
you can get a filter to put in your cb radio wiring to cut wiper motor interference... I had one on my cb....
As I lay here watching you go thru tunnell @20:16 all I'm thinking about is what it would look like if water was running thru this giant culvert, slash tunnel!!! hahaha
I didn't think that pick up would be able to push the big truck. Looks like they've done it plenty of times. Good thing you stayed behind so they were able to help
Great scenery safe travels 🇮🇲🇮🇲
Never seen that before on my life it was really cool to watch
So what did you think of our Mtns??
Love it. Our look small now
@@post.10 I love you Videos
I used to live in Denver Co in 06 was homeless there in the summer and Chicago too
I use a Chinese diesel heater here in the van to keep it warm and a 200 ah lithium battery and 2000 Watt inverter charger plus 30 gal water tank
the pine trees are dead not because of fire but because of pine Beatles
My 98 Ford e250 is my homemade camper van would be awesome if you got a can like this
The Eisenhower tunnel is pretty long ain't it.
typo in title. Should be "Trucks Lose Traction ...."
just realized that white car that was in front of him didn’t even have a license plate
Need to take auto focus off, so won't focus on snow or rain on windshield
Did I hear April in the background ??
I used to build custom cb radios and linears. You prob need to check your swr.
Possibly a bad ground?
Could be a ground issue why you are hearing other noises on the CB ...
How is it that American city's are like grids of straight road but your big roads are so windy. Its supposed to be the other way around.
@Post10. i think you need a supressor for your cb radio. ;-)
Manitoba, Canada - our plows have similar lights - you tend to think the police have the road blocked at first, until you realize it's just a plow doing their thing.
Hello, Post10!
Please forgive my compulsion to tell you that tight is the opposite of LOOSE, and
sustain is the opposite of LOSE.
Anyone who causes a accident should be made to pay for everyone's wasted fuel
Those automatic semi trucks are horrible in winter, I hate driving them. Sucks that my company is only running automatics now, I miss driving manual transmissions.
It's "climate change" [Autmn to Winter] nothing else!
Nice driving and vid!
It's LOSE, not LOOSE. I love your videos but it would be great if you could run these titles by someone else.
If the traction is loose, I suppose one might lose traction
@@beorlingo Loose rhymes with moose. lose rhymes with booze. English has stupid rules.
Also of all the youtubers out there Post is the one who values his use of the language otherwise I wouldn't bother.
@@peteysquirrelchaser9028 I'd say "lose" is the most frequently misspelled word of the English language. It's up there with there/their/they're.
Well that was a mess! It could have been terrible if any of those big rigs had actually colidded where they lost tracktion. It seems like when it first starts accumulating on the road people just continue flying full speed. Surface conditions have changed drastically. Simply attempting a lane change could cause total chaos! 9x outta 10 the first thing people do when their vehicle is out of control... They smash the brakes! Making a bad situation into a 17 car pile-up. I know you're back home now from your travels. Continue your cautious driving skills, be safe & be ready for that dingus driver clueless of forethought when driving.
POST where r u going?! That's a long drove
Big piece of trim missing from that white Acura, including the license plate.
If they're lucky they didn't lose it entirely.
traffic update
weather update
straight into selling healthinsurance
The highway 70 Post 10 is interstate 70
Hey Dave I do sincerely apologize for missing ya in leavenworth,WA if your ever back in town Id like to buy you a beer at the icicle brewery and the best poke ever is at Yodelin broth!
You could get the president ssb CB radio
trying to figure out your location in Colorado. I've taken Amtrak to Utah and to Denver (son lives in downtown Denver) from Iowa. I-70 and Amtrak follow the same path in areas of Colorado. So I'm going to guess you bypassed Iowa completely on this trip out west! You probably passed through the great state of Indiana (my birthplace and life for 37 yrs) at some point though :) You missed nothing in Iowa by the way! I live in a Dutch town but otherwise, rural state.
Iowa isn't entirely a rural state. I've lived here about 41 years and never lived outside a town or city lol not saying they haven't been SMALL but, ya know
@@mystic_tacos I'm in Pella. I moved here from Indianapolis so it all seems pretty rural to me. not complaining but ti's not a 24/7 world here in Iowa!!
Did you through those truckers any hard look's after they blocked that road for hours? Those ding-a-lings should have had chains on before attempting to climb that icy grade.
Wild and crazy!
Thanks Post!
👍👍👍👊😎
Three thumbs up
Nice advertising for ford
what are u driving these days
Was not expecting to see the pick-up move the big rig. Nothing to it.
Brrrr 🌹🍀💖🍀
They are state police vehicles those plow trucks
Desert rain
It always gets like that around the people repulik of denver, we have chain laws for this time of yr, but most of the komrades from denver ignore them because they are better than everyone else.