Locals plow roadway for chain-less trucker to back up in the snow

Local residents worked together with the police department to help a trucker that was stuck on a snowy roadway without snow chains in Colorado. 

The incident occurred on Thursday, November 7th near Silver Cliff, Colorado on Highway 96, reported Fox 21.

The Custer County Sheriff’s Office reports that the “extra long” flatbed trucker from Georgia got stuck without chains on Highway 96. 

“A local man responded with a front end loader to clear the highway,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote in a post. “Deputies blocked traffic so that the semi truck could backup all the way to Bunker Hill Road. Siefert enterprises arrived on scene and plowed out the intersection of Bunker Hill and Highway 96 so that the extra long truck could back up Bunker Hill.”

Police say that it was not technically illegal for the trucker to not have snow chains in their county, but he was cited for blocking the roadway. 

“Custer County is not one of the county locations listed in Senate Bill 24-100 which requires truckers to carry chains in the truck during the winter,” the post reads. “Only CDOT can mandate when chains are required on state highways. However the driver was cited for blocking the highway. A huge shout-out to the local loader operator and the road grader from Siefert for jumping in to help.”