Best And Worst Cities For Trucking Traffic?

I-95 southbound from CT into NYC after 5:30 am. Or, anything heading into NYC during morning rush hour for that matter.

The whole I-95 corridor for that matter. Take your pick. Every major city on there is a mess on a regular basis.

I think they should figure out how to build truck-only bypasses around the biggest cities. No exits. Like a Turnpike. Just get on and keep rollin. No stopping. One big travel plaza somewhere in the middle with a Subway (that was a pretty specific request, but I like 'em). Small toll using EZ Pass to pay for it. It would save companies a ton of time and therefore money.

It would be even easier and far more immediate if they would come up with logbook rules that allowed drivers some kind of bonus time for driving between say 1:00 a.m and 5:00 a.m. to use those empty highways at night. Give drivers more flexibility and you would save a lot of congestion during both rush hours.

I-95 southbound from CT into NYC after 5:30 am. Or, anything heading into NYC during morning rush hour for that matter.

The whole I-95 corridor for that matter. Take your pick. Every major city on there is a mess on a regular basis.

I think they should figure out how to build truck-only bypasses around the biggest cities. No exits. Like a Turnpike. Just get on and keep rollin. No stopping. One big travel plaza somewhere in the middle with a Subway (that was a pretty specific request, but I like 'em). Small toll using EZ Pass to pay for it. It would save companies a ton of time and therefore money.

It would be even easier and far more immediate if they would come up with logbook rules that allowed drivers some kind of bonus time for driving between say 1:00 a.m and 5:00 a.m. to use those empty highways at night. Give drivers more flexibility and you would save a lot of congestion during both rush hours.

You know Brett I think the same thing to myself every time I go down the Jersey turnpike. They've got it divided so cars have their own lanes AND can travel in the truck lanes. And in the truck only lanes the trucks still get limited to the right two lanes of the three. That's bs if you ask me. Why can't the cars have one set and trucks have the other set. Just seems ludicrous to me

It would be even easier and far more immediate if they would come up with logbook rules that allowed drivers some kind of bonus time for driving between say 1:00 a.m and 5:00 a.m. to use those empty highways at night. Give drivers more flexibility and you would save a lot of congestion during both rush hours.

As one who usually gets rolling at about 3:30 am and finished today with 15 minutes of drive time on the clock, I am in love with this idea.

Anything in LA, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside County CA from 4:00am to 8:00pm once you start hitting the outskirts it will lighten up... but seriously from Yorba Linda to Riverside on the 91. in the middle of the night can take about 15 minutes :) but in the middle of the day it can take a couple hours. no joke. if you have carpool you can take 91 57 60 but aint nobody gonna do it over 26,000 gvwr. better off pulling off till high moon.

Coming South from San Francisco/San Jose area can be bad in the evening.

I don't like going north into D.C. either.

It would be even easier and far more immediate if they would come up with logbook rules that allowed drivers some kind of bonus time for driving between say 1:00 a.m and 5:00 a.m. to use those empty highways at night. Give drivers more flexibility and you would save a lot of congestion during both rush hours.

As one who usually gets rolling at about 3:30 am and finished today with 15 minutes of drive time on the clock, I am in love with this idea.

Absolutely. I always tried getting started between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. hoping to get a bunch of miles behind me before anyone else woke up. With the 14 hour rule they really put a damper on that for most people because you no longer have the flexibility you used to. Then they made it even worse by adding that stipulation (which has since been temporarily rescinded) where you have to have two periods between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. for your reset.

So we have half the industry sitting helplessly for hours on end at warehouses waiting to load or unload. On top of that everyone is forced to run themselves ragged in some artificial 14 hour window. If we would tweak the current system we could get a lot more trucks on the road at night and keep them from sitting too long at warehouses. You can increase the overall efficiency of the industry tremendously.

Brett for President!!

Or at least Chairman of the FMCSA.

Brett for President!!

Or at least Chairman of the FMCSA.

I concur "harumph harumph"

A free coffee to whoever knows the movie my harumph harumph came from.

I concur "harumph harumph"

A free coffee to whoever knows the movie my harumph harumph came from.

Obscure movie trivia doesn't work well here. (I Google cheated. Mel Brooks in Saddles.) I used All your base are belong to us, nobody got that either.

I concur "harumph harumph"

A free coffee to whoever knows the movie my harumph harumph came from.

Obscure movie trivia doesn't work well here. (I Google cheated. Mel Brooks in Saddles.) I used All your base are belong to us, nobody got that either.

I'll still get you a coffee lol

I was only about an hour away from you llast week down in Arkansas. It showed you in little rock and I was relaxing in Mandeville.

I'll still get you a coffee lol

I was only about an hour away from you llast week down in Arkansas. It showed you in little rock and I was relaxing in Mandeville.

I'm starting to check on the TT Tracker, too.

My mentor has a dedicated run in Arkansas & Louisiana. I texted him, saying I just can't get out of his territory.