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http://www.tailofthedragon.com/dragon_trucks.html
It's a US highway.
It will cut off miles.
before you venture on some road off the beaten path,us the stupid CB and ask if it's a regular truck route.
I hear drivers all the time ask if RT34 in CT from I-84 near Danbury is a good road for trucks down to I-91/95 junction in New Haven.Don't be shy and end up like the drivers at the above link.
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They enlisted the Teamsters’ help after the company decided that it would no longer pay them hourly wages but compensate them based on mileage, which would have cut their income in half
http://www.teamster.org/03news/hn_030110_1.htm
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Granted this road is NOT made for trucks, and has been addressed here before, the real agenda is this:
Now that we have your attention, let us tell you how to avoid running headlong into or under one of these cycle eaters.
This biking site wants a road all their own.
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Back in the early 80s, most states still had length laws of 55 feet which is why cab overs and 40 or 44 foot trailers were the norm. Those trucks were near the same size as trucks of 30+ years before. Suddenly, the industry wanted to run 48 and 53 foot semi trailers and the twin 28 foot pups on the roads, and a deal was forced onto many states to allow them on Interstate and certain approved other routes (approved because they could accomodate these bigger trucks) under the Serface Transportation Assistance Act ("STAA"). The date of the act was in 1982, but many states resisted implimenting the changes for several years because they knew (and time has proven it so) that the industry's willingness to confine them to the approved routes would fade as purchases of larger trailers were made. Under the act, when on approved routes, only the length of the semi trailer would be measured and that is also when the conventional cabs with ultra long sleepers started creeping in.
The states never egreed to abandon thier length laws in total, they never agreed to completely regrade, straighten, and widen every road that had a US route number. There simply isn't enough money available.
There is a plant over the mountain from where I work, and the state did work on a road and it is appreoved to get to that plant, but to access it one still must go round to the north or to the south to get across the mountain by routes which are 40-50 miles further than cutting straight across. The routes that appear on the map that are US rt numbers ... one is posted "No Through Trucks", and two are well posted "Truckers"..."Tractor Trailers over 65 feet total length prohibited from useing Rt ***/*** South (or east, west, north)" (the numbers change depending on which sign and on which road)
We write a lot of "Fail to Obey Highway Signs" tickets (3 points and a fine) on these roads between these signs, (if not between the signs on the posted section, it is simply "overlength" with only a fine, no points) usually to drivers pulling 53 foot trailers with long conventional tractors that typically run upwards of 70 feet long. You can follow them through the curves and see that every extra foot of trailer puts the tractor another foot over the double center line in the curves ... and when stopped the driver will often swear he never crossed it. Before these sections were posted the companies were running drivers across and takking the overlength tickets as "cost of buisness", you'ld write three from "ABCD Trucking" today, and they'ld send three more tomorrow same route. It took the posting and enforcement with the points showing up on MVRs for a long time before we noticed a decline in trucks over 65' long using these routes. The signs were posted after a two day study by the state transportation board members (two van loads came up and spent nights in a motel) during which time they spent time following trucks over these roads and studying two years woth of accident reports.
What used to be a regular occurence requiring one lane to be shut down while a truck is up righted, a load to be recovered , and another half day while guard rail is replaced is now more rare ... and it came at the cost of many points on many MVRs ....
There are still the occasional one who takes the chance (and I wrote 3 from the same major company in a 2 hour period the other afternoon) and there is another company who continuously sends drivers across (usually newbys) ...... but we are working on it to keep it from getting bad like it was in the late 90s.
I have ridden the Draggon (rt 129) and it is no place for a truck pulling a 48 or 53 foot long, 8 1/2 foot wide trailer.
The states knew this was going to happen 20 years ago, and the industry knew they weren't going to abide by the deal when they pushed for the longer trailers then, and the company doesn't care about points on a drivers MVR untill the ins. co. makes note of it, then they'll replace the driver as a "cost of buisness" .... and we do what we can to minimize the time spent at wrecks.
So my advice (FWIW) is ... read those signs directed at truckers ... and pay less attention to what is said on the CB and around coffee at a truck stop. Signs don't just pop up. When they are posted, it is accordance with state law and entails some study of statistics to see if the signage is warranted.
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You're excusd! Really fine post, thanks.

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There are also many roads that you can legally travel that if you ask on the CB,drivers will tell you to take the long way around.
US250 west from wheeling wv,it sucks in ohio.
Most roads in southeast ohio are open to 53' trailers and long conventionals,some ain't to good.
VA 17 north from winchesyer VA(I-81) into WV to pick up I-70 at the PA/MD state line,cuts off 20 miles and takes just as long as going around .Good road,I don't think it's legal or worth the hassle dealing with the traffic.It was the sneak across MD route when they wouldn't let you haul hazmat in 53' trailers,1 mile across MD that way -->
and as CP points out,just asking on the CB ain't a cure all,good chance you will talk to an idiot that don't know anything and just likes to talk.But when somebody says no don't go that way,listen to them or find out from the state if they are correct,don't ignore a no and don't think a yes means your good to go.
You may be talking to a driver that pulls a 42' long tanker and it's only 8' wide,not 8'6" wide like most van type trailers.
I know this has been posted at trucknet before and posted it at the newbies forum so they can see that routing is a wee bit important -->
The appalachian mountains aren't something to mess with and very few non interstate route's are made for a over 70'long truck.
I took RT 9 in VT over them today,what a cow path and took RT 2 in MA. back,yup them is some good size hills and lots of curves.Glad I had no weight.
They enlisted the Teamsters’ help after the company decided that it would no longer pay them hourly wages but compensate them based on mileage, which would have cut their income in half
http://www.teamster.org/03news/hn_030110_1.htm
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same with this one the midland trail i 60 from i 64 west that connects to i19 its the dragons syster -->
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Originally posted by zigzag:
The appalachian mountains aren't something to mess with and very few non interstate route's are made for a over 70'long truck.
I took RT 9 in VT over them today,what a cow path and took RT 2 in MA. back,yup them is some good size hills and lots of curves.Glad I had no weight.
Zig, you wouldn't by chance have had I-93 snuck in there somewhere?
That's the route I took going from Keene, NH to Rumford, ME two years ago, when I had ZERO winter driving experience up to that point. I learned a painful lesson that day, I did. I asked, "please don't send me NORTH"...to which he did
Boy, I thought I'd NEVER get off that road! Going 35mph in a snowstorm isn't fun. It finally got so bad around 3am that I shut 'er down, 1 mile from my pickup point (Mead plant). I had heard of 3 others knifing their rigs at the bottom of the hill, so I said until the roads improve, I'm not moving.
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