Some of you will understand

[marsmax85]

They (Vdot) puts down this brine solution on the before any bad weather comes and I watch these idiot drivers driving thru this crud like it's water .

 

[tothemax93]

They (Vdot) puts down this brine solution on the before any bad weather comes and I watch these idiot drivers driving thru this crud like it's water .

I herd on the radio last week that they're using the byproduct of fracking (brine) on the roads. Must have a high salt content. On my drive home from Fl, I passed a single axle dump truck pulling 2 of those big plastic tanks full of "brine" It was either Virgina or West Virgina. They been using brine here in NY for 3 or 4 years.

 

[Redbone]

They tried a new product up here a couple of years back called liquid calcium (liquid salt) - it was more like liquid rust. You can almost watch cars dissolve over the winter months.

Exposed wiring would pretty much melt.

They stopped using it last winter due to too many complaints.

Mike

They (Vdot) puts down this brine solution on the road before any bad weather comes and I watch these idiot drivers driving thru this crud like it's water .

Around here they use salt/ sand mixture which is immediately grippy and then the salt does it's work on the snow/ice. Works same way on a vehicle, the melting mixture gets sprayed in a fine mixture(sure to get into every crack, crevice and pile up on body panels, bumpers, frame, axles and what not to start it's slow rot of all metal even slightly exposed. They only lay it down at corners and intersections in rural areas luckily.
Out in Washington state they used what looked like small chip rock which works fine as a traction medium but also as a nice paint blasting medium too. I learned to keep a good distance when following to avoid the blast. I also added rubber flaps on the lower inner fenders to keep from blasting the undersides of my Chevy Astro, worked ok for the almost 3 years I lived there.
When I lived in Atlanta Ga I used to get a chuckle when seeing two guys with shovels in the back of a dump truck throwing sand on the roads. Whatever it takes I guess because they could not drive on rain soaked roads, when it snowed or was icy it was scary to see some of those drivers out on the road!

 

[Traumahawk]

Well I got stuck in Decatur Tx last night, coming home from work. I car that weighs 2700 is fun to drive.....but not good in the ice. After the rear end skipped halfway into the other lane...it was time to quit.

Here are pics from last night and today.