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Dec 5, 2014

TRUCKERS LIVING STORIES * USA: Three days in the frozen hell

* New York - Buffalo snow stranded Green Bay trucker for 3 days
(Photo: AP - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo checks on a snowbound trucker on the New York State Thruway in Cheektowaga, N.Y., on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014)
Buffalo,NY,USA -Press-Gazette Media, by Paul Srubas -December 2, 2014: ... Everybody headed out about 4 a.m. that morning, Nov. 18, which seemed like plenty of time for York. who drives a semi for Skaleski Moving & Storage of Green Bay, to make the first of this three deliveries before having to hunker down and wait out the storm...  Bad move. The storm turned out to be much faster and more ferocious than anyone expected... Getting near sunrise, with nothing but trucks on the turnpike, visibility was so poor that they were crawling along at about 10 mph. York and another driver he was in CB radio communication with decided to abort and head for a truck stop near Buffalo about nine miles out. But moments later, traffic came to a stop. York learned later a driver had jackknifed his truck about three miles up the road, and that stopped York and everybody else in their tracks... "Within a couple hours of that, we had the DOT talking to us on CB telling us the snow was heavier than expected and we were looking at 10 to 12 hours before they could attempt to get us out. ... By that time, the snow was up to the middle of my wheels" ... Ten to 12 hours turned out to be a gross understatement. This was a snowstorm that was leaving snowplows buried and immovable...
Truckers had to keep their engines idling to stay warm, and little by little they ran out of fuel and had to go to someone else's truck to avoid freezing to death... They plowed him clear and he was able to drive to a truck stop in a little town called Dunkirk. That's where he learned that at least one trucker never made it... "Apparently he didn't have a CB that worked," York said. "He waited too long. He sat in his truck until it ran out of gas, then tried to get help, but by that time, it was too deep and he got buried." It was one of more than a dozen fatalities that resulted from the storm, York said... He arrived home on Nov. 26, just in time to enjoy Thanksgiving with his wife and four kids. What should have been a six-day trip ended up taking two weeks... By the time you're reading this, he will have set off to make another delivery — to Buffalo...

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