Truck driver requests help turning around at chain-up station, Silverthorne CO
TrafficA truck driver at the Silverthorne chain-up station requested help to turn around and return to a motel after he was unable to fully install tire chains on his vehicle.
Audio|Source: Summit and Eagle County Public Safety
02:43
Transcript:
00:00
I have a party.
00:02
He says he's at the first chain-up station by the Silver, by the Super 8 and Silverthorne.
00:08
He's in a red tractor, has a trailer with IDI, that's Ida Deva Ida Ida information on it.
00:15
He says he needs help turning around to go back to a motel because he can put the first two sets of chains on, but not the second two sets.
00:27
Okay.
00:28
Is he already on the interstate?
00:31
He's at the chain-up station now.
00:34
I still have him landlined.
00:38
Okay, so is he in the box truck or a truck trailer?
00:44
I believe he's in a red tractor with a trailer.
00:49
Okay, and he is on the interstate.
00:55
Tells me he's in the chain-up station.
01:00
Okay.
01:02
I'm heading back down there,
01:04
and is he right at the beginning of the chain station on the west end or towards the other end?
01:11
I can ask him.
01:12
Hang on just a minute.
01:16
I'm going four levels for that is checked.
01:21
Leadville and Bill Schwarf, doing fine, I-70 eastbound, Eisenhower Tunnel.
01:27
Top B, 16, 43.
01:31
13, May 3rd 13.
01:35
Yeah,
01:36
you guys.
01:37
I said I got a pretty big wide load coming behind you.
01:40
Just make sure you pass the people before you come back out.
01:43
I've got a false-up.
01:46
Ten more than eight.
01:49
That is so illegal for them to be moving in these weather conditions.
01:55
I've seen them before, Scott.
01:56
They moved two of those quarter houses across the top, that 14 feet or whatever.
02:02
Yeah, I saw them heading west down from Steamboat when I came in.
02:05
They are not allowed to move unless the road is completely dry.
02:11
Well, is water really wet?
02:15
Well, the OXC not overweight-overwent permit strictly prohibit that as the statute.
02:22
Um,
02:26
because the median cuts are not an option.
02:30
Copy. I have attached you to that, sir.
02:34
It's got his name and number in the call as well.
02:38
Copy. Yeah, I may just have to try to follow him to the box and have him turn around there.
02:43
I'll advise you.
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Silverthorne, CO 80498
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