16 www.studentdriverplacement.com February '15
Or Not Preventable
Rig no match for
midnight snow
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t was midnight, and the wind was
howling like a hound dog as truck-
er John Doe fought his way toward
Woonsocket, S.D., peering intently
through his windshield at a major bliz-
zard. He was plowing his way through
deep snow on Persnickety Pike at 35
mph with a heavily-laden 53-foot dry-
freight van in tow. Appropriately, the lo-
cal country-western channel was play-
ing "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere."
At least Doe had a big Thermos of
ultra-strong coffee obtained from Aunt
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day did no good. His tractor slid into the
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became traumatized when he received a
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that Doe clearly had been overdriving
his headlights and was going too fast for
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Sometimes windshield
wipers and headlight
beams just aren't
enough. Doe gets a
lesson in slowing down.
