Tips for Safe Driving of Heavy Vehicles in Winter

In the construction project construction, often will use some heavy vehicles, due to heavy vehicles are generally running noise, braking distance is long, more dead ends, fault frequency and other characteristics, especially by the bad weather in winter, the safety hazards are more prominent. Now the winter has begun to slowly approach, here I will share with the majority of heavy-duty vehicle drivers in advance of the winter safety driving should pay attention to several issues:

1. Ice and snow add more, to master the skills of skid prevention

Winter driving will inevitably encounter rain and snow, rain and snow is easy to cause the road surface after the ice, which will inevitably bring a great impact on driving safety, mainly manifested in slippery road surface, adhesion coefficient is reduced, prone to vehicle starting difficulties, braking distance increases, easy to turn sideways and so on. Heavy vehicles traveling in snow and ice weather, should be cautious operation, careful driving, leaving enough safety margin.

1.1 Starting to be stable. Vehicle start throttle is not too big, power engagement to be smooth, to prevent the impact is too large, resulting in direct wheel slippage. If necessary, you should also use anti-skid chains to improve the safety of the vehicle.

1.2 Speed should be slow. It is recommended that we try to use low gears and high speeds in snow and ice, so that the engine is always in the middle and high speed operation, when there is an emergency, you can relax the throttle directly, the use of engine traction braking to reduce the speed of the car, can effectively avoid the occurrence of vehicle deflection and tailing and other situations.

What you should pay attention to for safe driving of heavy vehicles in winter?

1.3 turn to slow. Vehicle turning will produce lateral centrifugal force, the higher the speed, the smaller the turning radius centrifugal force is greater, the easier it is to skid, so turn as slow as possible, the turning radius should be as large as possible.

1.4 Brake less. Heavy-duty vehicles driving, to fully observe the road conditions, pre-judge the situation in advance, take timely braking measures, try to use braking with gears, the use of engine resistance to control the speed of the vehicle, in order to effectively prevent the wheels from holding and braking runaway.

2. Timely response to severe fog!

Winter is the haze weather is a frequent time, the lower temperatures would have been easy to form foggy weather, coupled with the impact of air pollution factors, so make the haze weather occurs frequently, the safe operation of heavy vehicles have a great impact, therefore, to ensure that the haze weather driving safety is particularly important.

2.1 To strictly control the speed. Haze weather driving must control the speed, we should be based on the size of the degree of visibility impact on the speed and spacing also have different requirements, in general, the lower the visibility, the slower the speed, the greater the distance between the vehicles, when the visibility is less than 50 meters, it should try to stop driving, parked on the side of the road, and at the same time open the fog lamps, broadband lamps, taillamps and emergency warning lamps, and set up a warning sign in the rear of the vehicle in an appropriate location. Signs.

2.2 To avoid tailgating. Driving in the fog generally do not step on or fast release the throttle, not to mention emergency braking and emergency steering wheel. If you really need to reduce the speed of the car, slowly relax the gas pedal, and then continuous many times gently step on the brake to achieve the purpose of controlling the speed of the car, to prevent rear-end accidents.

2.3 Be diligent in honking the horn. Foggy day vision is not good, diligently press the horn can help us play a role in warning pedestrians and vehicles, when you hear the other car's horn, you should immediately respond to the siren, signaling the position of their own car. Meeting when the horn to remind the opposite side of the vehicle attention, at the same time should turn off the fog lights, so as not to give the other side caused by dazzling sense.

2.4 Be careful to deal with the foggy road. Group fog is like a cloud, outside the line of sight is good, go in after a sudden drop in visibility, a haze, general visibility will be below 100 meters, so encountered this situation must be in advance to the speed down, once the car rushed into the deceleration that is very dangerous, maybe when you go in front of the car has begun to step on the brakes.

3. Conclusion

Winter weather conditions are complex, the driving safety brings great challenges, as a heavy-duty vehicle drivers must fully understand the characteristics of different weather conditions, master safe driving skills, flexible response to a variety of emergencies, to ensure the safe completion of the task.