Warning signs are good things when one bothers to actually read and heed them. There is a section of I-90 in ID that is typical mountain roadway. It's very curvy and there are signs warning truckers that 45 mph is the maximum safe speed through there. As I came through there yesterday I was running between 40 - 45 mph around those sharp curves.
When I rounded one of them I was greeted by the sight of a flatbed on the shoulder with his load leaning way over and just about to fall off the trailer. I guess that driver either didn't secure the load properly or, more likely, ignored the warning signs and was trying to run the curves too fast. Either way he really screwed up.
While still in WA I had heard from a couple of drivers that there had been some seriously high winds around the Livingston, MT area when they came across and that several rigs had been blown over. I wasn't surprised today to see warning signs about strong cross wind gusts in that area advising drivers to use extra caution.
As I neared that area the winds were really whipping across the highway so I dropped my speed so as to make my rig harder to blow off the road or blow over. Naturally there were trucks and RVs still hammering away, weaving back and forth as the wind gusts hit them and nearly pushed them off the roadway. Some folks simply don't listen.
The high winds lasted for 40 miles or so and I was finally out of them again. I'm now parked in SE MT, not too far from the WY line. I checked into a motel here for the night. A waste of money really, but I just felt like getting out of the truck for the night. This is very close to the Little Big Horn area where Custer and his men met their now infamous fate and there are an old military rifle and saber hanging on the wall above the motel check in desk. Probably just replicas, but you never know.
I'm just going to kick back and relax tonight, get some rest, and get back at it tomorrow morning. I'm still hoping to make it home for Thanksgiving.