I'm a commercial driver. The road conditions were too dangerous for safe travel. The drivers should have found a safe place to park and waited it out. This is something major companies encourage. Rescheduling deliveries is standard procedure due to weather delays.

There's a certain saying in russian: if you drive fast, you'll be carried slowly.

I started driving tractor trailer in the late 70s. I use to drive i80 all the time year round, occasionally a multi vehicle wreck but we really never saw this kind of stuff. Nowadays I think it’s everyone is in a rush, distracted driving and people just not caring. I could be wrong but I’m glad after 43+ years I just drive a dump truck part time to make a couple bucks. I loved my time driving cross country years ago, great memories. Everyone stay safe out there.

I believe it's called, "traveling too fast for conditions!"

If truckers still had and listened to CB radios most of this would have been avoided.

Many truck drivers, all though skilled in normal weather, often drive much faster than conditions should dictate.

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly !! Good advice from an old trucker when I got my license at 18yrs old. After 39 going on 40yrs, that old man was right then, and now. The mans Name was Carlos Contreras. Rest in peace "my Carlos". 😔

Speeding and no longer using the CB equals pile ups.

Insurance nightmare and lawyers dream.

I remember the day this happened. An old retiree from our shop had to drive in this. He said he came close to getting pinched on more than one occasion. He got forced off the road in order to avoid the worst of it.

I grew up in Wyoming and Colorado, and everyone knows this stretch of I-80 is nasty in the winter. What I don't understand is why these drivers didn't slow down earlier. I'm not a commercial driver, and all the driving training I have is high school driver's ed class. But one thing they drilled into us was to never go so fast that you can't stop before the range of your vision. So if visibility is only 200 yards, you drive at a speed where you can come to a full stop in less than 200 yards. If it's icy, then the 200 yard stopping speed is lower than if it's not icy. Are other drivers not taught this same "rule of thumb" or did all these people severely underestimate how slick the roads were?

Oh look" It's snowing & foggy, let's speed up & tailgate people... It'll be just FINE...

Imagine driving a 60,000lb truck down a snowy highway at 60mph assuming there's nothing in the road in front of you.

Chain reaction wrecks in fog or snow. You can be the best driver on the planet and still get crushed like tin can. Get away from your car as soon as you get the chance. Get well off to the side because more wrecks are coming.

I would expect more safety and common f’n sense from these professional truck drivers.

ALSO DONT BUNCH UP KEEP A SAFE DISTANCE AND ABOVE ELSE SLOOOOOOW DOWN

I was 70 miles west on that day on rt80 in my rig I was quite fortunate to miss this catastrophe

My son is a trucker and when he’s on the road it’s very worrying....he has travelled many miles in the worst conditions north and south of the U.S. and Canadian border...keep safe all of you road warriors.

If the roads are bad and you feel you must drive and there is an increased risk of an accident, be prepared for the worst. Drive with your jacket on and gloves in your pocket. That's what I did (1974 to 2019). Fortunately I never had to crawl through the busted out windshield of an overturned truck. Imagine what it would be like in a T-shirt and shorts.

If you drive faster than you can see in front of you (in the event of emergency stop) this is what happens .

If they'd had their CB on, they'd have known about the nasty weather and the wreck well ahead of time. C'mon drivers, let's all git er dun safely!

About 10 years ago there was a big pile up on i80 in Illinois. Ended up doing a 10 hour restart right in the middle of i80.

That's an odd place for a truck stop

All the goddam truckers need to do is slow the hell down! I cant count the number of times ive traveled in this kind of weather going SLOW and Semi's fly by.

From 1995 to 1997 Interstate 80 in Wyoming was my second home. During this time I drove hundreds of miles across there. I hauled steel case office furniture from Michigan to California and produce back. I drove for ETV coopersville Mi. And snow and wind was never really a problem. Sure the snow was bad sometimes. Never had any problems with the wind. But drivers would communicate about the weather. But never in two years and thousands of miles covered across Wyoming 80 was there traffic accidents, pile ups like this. And these accidents are becoming more popular in the United States.

I drive highway 80 everyday. Just keep your distance. And slow down in Fog or snow weather. 🚛🚚🚫🌫🌫⛄❄❄⛄🌝🌡🙏👌

The results of driving to fast in bad conditions. I’ve been all over this country as a truck drive and I’ve driven in every weather condition you can imagine and I never once had an accident, but that’s because I slowed down in conditions like this. As a driver if I knew I was going to encounter conditions like this I’d run like hell until I got into conditions like this then I could slow way down, take my time and still get my load delivered on time and undamaged.

Ouch, so much damage, all those semis and so much ice. No brains amongst them anywhere! Better to be late than not get there at all! 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏽👏🏻🥴

Okay everybody, back to truck driving school!

The speed limit is the maximum speed in ideal conditions. You are supposed to slow down as visibility and conditions worsen.

When it absolutely positively has to get there overnight

I look for the nearest TStop or rest area. Get off the road nobody can drive when you can’t see.

Truckers probably using cell phones now instead of CB's.

The 2 guys in yellow vests just stood there watching and probably think well I can't do nothing until everybody crashes.

My sister is a commercial driver in the Midwest. If weather like this hits she parks the vehicle. I’m glad she does it’s too dangerous! And I would like my sister to live!

In weather like that, I find a nice place to park and wait it out. The customer , and dispatch can be as angry as they want I don't care. I will stay safe and alive and the load might be late, but late is better than not at all like with some of these.

my first winter driving OTR, i was heading WB in weather like this. i hit a stretch of road called "the three sisters". you wouldn't think it was possible to leave a hickey on the seat. but i think i did that nite.

I drove by that disaster weeks after it happened and there were still truck bodies and freight all over the center divider

So happy I now live in the south, 40 years now. Spent the fist 18 in Cleveland Ohio but never drove then.

Something a mechanic friend told me when light emitting diode lights became the rage., you will see many more truck accidents on the highway because LED lights can’t melt snow build up during storms and therefore cannot be seen. This was 20 yrs back.

Every one of those drivers are boneheads! You can't see more than a few yards in front of yourself. They had no business being on the road.

Once upon a time, a jacknife was an unusual incident but ...pileup was a big shame amongst truckers.

I have driven Northern Ontario roads for 45 years...and the most important thing you can have is the common sense to say "I'm waiting until this clears up"

I grew up in Cheyenne. This was a yearly occurrence at the bottom of Sherman Hill. If you wanted to get to Laramie you'd take Happy Jack road if it was open when the interstate was closed.

Soooooo this is what king of the road looks like...I'm impressed.

The WY Highway Patrol should have cleared the highway 80 in Cheyenne and Laramie...manslaughter!

First crash video I’ve seen without a swift truck

This almost happened to me in a storm years back but i reacted and steered off to the shoulder and avoided the pile up.

Wyoming does have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to treating the roads. I saw a clear difference yesterday crossing into Utah from Evanston. Compact snow, chains required on the WY side, then wet with a little slush on the UT side, like night and day between the two states.

reminds me of the white out and the morning after, on highway 71 S, from Kansas City to Joplin. i stopped the night before when it got really bad. might of been a rookie, but i wasn't stupid driving in a white out at night. in the morning, roads were semi-'clear, and saw a lot of trucks in the median and right side of the road. it was "clear sailing" all the way to Joplin.

That fire engine should be 1/2 mile back with all lights on!that would help slow the crashes somewhat before they reach those up further!!🙄

i once worked for the highway dept in the srrera nevada mountins and had a car hit one of our plow trucks and totaled both vehicles and the car driver was informed that chains were required 35 miles back down the road and said he knew that but didnt want to go 25 miles per hour

If they stayed off their damn cell phones and put their radios on a lot of them would have known what was going on further down the road

Need some kind of light system dispersed along the freeway to let the traffic know danger is ahead.

Nov 5, 2020---Noticed that NONE of the drivers had chains on. Drove truck for 15 years, now retired and I chained up more than once even when it wasn't required. And of course, when I wasn't chained up, I slowed the bleep down AND hit my flashers to give everyone fair waring. Rather do 25-35 with or without chains, with the knowledge I should pretty much be able to stop, while also keeping my distancing.

I've driven this stretch in winter - with only some patchy snow on the road. Even then it was highly dangerous. Of course the 60 mph winds didn't help.

Those truck drivers should have slowed down!! Ridculous

Holy macalow. Fed ex always be there for the crash

Drove on this road in the late nineties. Driving too fast for conditions and tailgating were common...when it got bad, finding a place to pull over was preferable...if you stopped along side of the road, you could get rear ended...saw lots of wrecks...all you could do is keep alot of space infront and slow down to maintain stopping distance then look for a place to safely pull over...lots of triples find the ditch!

I missed this wreck by ten minutes. The interstate had closed the night before. I spent the night in Laramie. The next morning I left. I was pulling FedEx doubles back to our Denver terminal on Yosemite and 88th. As I was heading back down towards Cheyenne, there were dozens of high ballers passing me at 60. I was doing 35. It was near white out conditions. I remember thinking, 'someone is going to pile it up." I got back to Denver. Dispatch said, "You made it. Good news." I said, "What?" "There was a huge truck wreck just outside of Cheyenne just an hour ago." The next day I found the video on KZfaq and thanked my lucky stars. If that wasn't enough, five years later, during the Covid lockdowns in late March 2020, there was even a larger truck wreck out by Wamsutter that I missed by several hours. The wreckage from that wreck sat on the side of the road for several months. The wreckage stretched for a whole mile. It looked like a junkyard. They didn't clean the mess up til late May. I-80 Wyoming is the most dangerous stretch of road in America during the winter-time. It involves 6 inches of black ice with 70-80 mph winds all winter, with frequent blizzards and absolute zero visibility. These storms are so frequent that they can't always close the interstate as the storms can last for 4-5 days at a time. You can't really close one of the main east/west truck corridors for 4 days a week during the winter. All you can do is keep it open and hope big pile-ups don't happen. But they do happen. Its life.

That’s A Lotta Damage

I can't see nothing so I am gonna go faster!

Drove that road for 20 years in a semi, no problems but grew up there, most truck wrecks are caused by rookies or warm weather drivers.

I've been driving to Wyoming for about 22 years up Interstate 80 it's crazy up there you got to be careful

If I hurry hurry I can still make Cheyenne, then cause one of hell of a wreck!!

WITH ALL OF THE TECH WE HAVE ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO OCCUPY THE TIME WHILE DRIVING IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER USE THE CB IF YOU DONY HOW ASK SOMEONE I ASSURE YOU WEBDID IT ON A REGULAR BACK IN THE DAY

I regret my flippant comment, I truly feel so bad for these folks. I hope everyone was okay and bless them with peace and love.

It gets scary across there in the winter.

U sure it wasn't Godzilla??

I remember this. We were pretty much stuck inside for a couple of days. Then you got these idiots who think since they have 4WD or in a tractor trailer they can do anything. smh Those high wind advisories are there for a reason.

The desert is damn hot in the summer and I hate it then but this scene sure makes it more bearable.

I read someplace and fully agree that in cases like this those fusee highway flares are invaluable, but someone needs to head "downstream" waving one to warn incoming and place many more downstream (or upstream however you think of incoming) as far as possible. The problem is (a) finding people who carry them, (b) getting them to contribute them, (c)and finding someone couragous enough to risk running into the fog to put them out and maintain them. Limited visiblity means slow the hell down, way damn down!!!!!!!!

Hammer down super truckers play videos talk on phone wear headphones hammer down

Almost a white out in snowy icy conditions and they still drive at near full speed! .... What is that all about? Destruction and carnage because of what, wanna get there regardless of the weather huh?

Those "professional" drivers need to lose their licenses. I'm a truck driver, I was passed the other day by a guy in another big rig that had to be going over 90 mph. I see young guys with their feet up on the dash, while they're driving. Most of this was avoidable. And once it happens you're on your own. Those first responders are going to wait until it's safe to run into that mess. They have families waiting on them at home.

That's the bad part in truck driving school they give you six weeks but it's on Dry Road LOL

This is why I keep my CB on......

The tow companies made a fortune on this.

The other half that no one is thinking about is even if you've done everything right and been able to stop, someone behind you won't. That's why I shut it down well before conditions are close to what I can handle.

Watching this makes me feel better about my little fender bender.

Very nasty, but avoidable. Imagine if you were driving at a sensible speed, managed to stop safely, and feel like a sitting duck with these careless drivers bearing down on you knowing they couldn't stop in time.

THEY HAD TIME TO GET SOME KIND OF EMERGENCY TRUCK THERE THEN THEY HAD TIME TO CLOSE THE ROADS! SUE THE GVT

I’ve been over that pass and weather up there can change very fast.I’ve stopped to chain up and they closed the road in front of me because of accidents.constant white outs.we have to stop in the middle of the road due to 0 visibility!

Ive read that in a short period of time there's something like a 75% turnover in drivers because of the low pay😕

the guy who got out of the vehicle with his hands up on top of he said he's like oh my God I'm a new driver and I just screwed up I'm losing my job

Do people honestly NOT know that it's snowing ??

That road is no joke! I hate driving it in the winter!

This happens EVERY winter here. That stretch of road is awful,

Those guys in the emergency vehicle should be using there sirens

1/8 of a mile visibility and trucks are piling in at 50 mph. What the fuck?

This should be a movie. Stuff like this. The nightmare of oncoming cars in a quite out. All over the country. Show people getting squished in their cars, plowed off the road, cracking their heads on ice as they walk, sliding down and cars sliding into them as they run off the road.

Unfortunately this is what happens when people make the decision to drive through a blizzard rather than just shut it down for a night, or two, if required.

I drove semi‘s across wyoming many times, and and I do know when it comes to weather in wyoming. IT‘S VERY UNPREDICABLE IN JUST IN JUST A FEW MILES SOME TIME. I‘VE SEEN IT IN WYOMING ALL WITH 25 MILES IT WAS NICE THEN YOU HIT RAIN THEN RUN INTO A NASTY BLIZZERED AND ALOT OF ICE AND SNOW. I don‘t trust wyoming weather because it does change in a short distance and very unpredictable. And accidents I‘ve seen my share over the years. So the one accident in this video is no surprise to me in wyoming. NOBODY WANTS A ACCIDENT BUT THERE IS NOTHING ANYBODY CAN DO WHEN THEY HAPPEN

In weather like that you shouldn’t even be on the road, Ive been driving for 6 years and any dispatcher who tells you to keep driving in that needs to be fired

There are other, and longer, vids of this mess taken by several folks. It happened in April when a freak blizzard hit.

I'm so glad I live on the Texas coast and don't have to deal with that kind of weather,crazy

Use your CB radios!!!!

so. why isn't anyone on the radio notifying truckers?

So much for the collective intelligence of truck drivers.

I drive a box truck three days a week. It's scary enough without whiteouts. Seeing this chain reaction as it happens makes it real.