I got pull over today in Michigan for frost law

Maine, Wisconsin and Minnesota have similar laws, and maybe other states. Enforcement varies but worthwhile to pay attention.

 

they had it on the big signs around mi

 

I was trained on all this nonsense but never saw any of these signs. but my driving in those states was fairly limited. its bs though. I remember hearing at our Michigan terminal there was only one possible route and the cops would just sit and wait to bust trucks if they took the wrong road. messed up.

 

Tell them they need to dig down at least 42" and build a really thick road, lol. It seems like they could come up with a better warning system. I've been to MI many times and never knew anything of frost laws so it's a good heads up for others. I guess I've been lucky but I've never have been but a few blocks off the interstate in the winter.

States are different on their road construction and it sounds like MI is a cheapy. You can go to other northern states and they don't have issues.

 

Idaho, BC and Alberta have breakup limits posted right now as well.

 

Just an FYI ... the roads here are a problem for a couple reasons

1 - this year when we had the snow and the zero degree days and minus zero nights, they didn't use salt but plowed the roads. There was no water that was getting into the slabs and then cracking the cement because it was too cold to begin with. However some of the seams popping up because of a lack of proper foundation, shifting because they were giving way long before the snow came so the plows would catch a lot of the slab seams and tear them up. example is Mound road where they did some repair work last year and before the snow was pretty good but a couple days after the snow in this bitter cold weather it was like an artillery barrage was unleashed on the road.

2 - this state has poor specs for the roads to begin with. There was always money for rebuilding roads and they used the idea "we will just fix it next year" form of planning but because they gotten cheap in the past 15 years and changed how the roads are put in, they just don't last more than a year here and this isn't because of winter - it happens all year round. It has nothing to do with the frost but the general maintenance (sealing seams) to prevent washout of the foundation in some spots and/or having proper foundation to begin with. One road you can see this is I75 from the Ohio border to mm25, there are some areas after being rebuilt that just sunk and others where the slabs shifted and cracked then became a mess.

 

Going up and down I-75 they have the light up signs proclaiming frost laws are now in effect. Of course they don't say which roads, the weight limits, etc. but it is posted

That stretch from the Ohio line to at least the 25 is just about the worst stretch of road I've been on in years, I was running containers to CP Rail off of Southfield at least 2-4 times a week two or three times a day. My back is still trying to recover from it. You know the road is bad when you go over one of those craters and your chassis with an empty container on it jumps a foot or two to the left or right when it crosses the crater

 

Amen SlowPoke...I hate that stretch as well. Forces one to run in the middle lane as the right lane is unbearable.