Tag: winter driving

Equipment

Fuel additives – before and after pumping

Pilot Flying J, Love’s and TravelCenters of America are among truck stops using cold-flow broad spectrum additives to treat fuel at cold-weather locations for the winter. Off-the-shelf additives remain popular, but more additive doesn’t necessarily equal better protection.

December 30, 2019

Voices

Philip Kuffner presents a trio of vids to file under ‘on-highway follies’

Always “an adventure” out on the road, isn’t it? Overdrive reader Philip Kuffner offered up these three vids from his dashcam as plenty evidence.

December 20, 2016

Business

Slowing down with sailboat fuel

“’Sailboat fuel’ is a dumb saying. Because sailboats have motors and there is no such thing as an airtight trailer that can haul wind.” More notes on the long deadhead here.

January 7, 2013

Channel 19

Got snow?

Here in the Southeast (though in Nashville I’m approaching the region’s northern edge), it’s been uncommonly wintry this week, as you can see from this pic, taken at the Love’s on Trinity Lane at I-65. Further South, things have been much worse, though, evidenced in part by Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based driver Vernon Cook’s 24-hour wait […]

January 12, 2011