There are other aspects that would allow a driver to refuse to driver if the driver thought that the weather was bad enough to not be able to drive safely. In the case of TransAm Trucking Inc v. Alphonse Maddin (Shumaker, 2016) the issue was the temperature and the type of mechanical issue that Mr. Maddin experienced. In January 2009 Mr. Maddin was driving in Illinois on Interstate 88 when he stopped while looking for a fuel stop at 11 pm. He was low on fuel and when he stopped the brakes on his trailer froze to the drums. This locked the brakes in an on position and he could not free them. Since he was low on fuel he could not run his truck very long in fear of running out of fuel. His auxiliary power unit or APU on his truck did not work.
