Best And Worst Cities For Trucking Traffic?

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.

Lol. I know the feeling. With the routes we run dealing with the auto industry, i generally run the midwest and southern routes. I'm always in the Arkansas, alabama and Georgia area.

Atlanta - They don't understand mass transit. Everyone has a car and uses it daily. At least up in the NE, thousands of people use the trains. It seems a bit thinner to me up there.

I haven't had to drive through Atlanta much, but my least favorite that I usually do is Austin. Just one real highway through it, and any time of day it seems I wind up stopped or in 2nd gear for a long time. They need a real bypass, not the one dippy little toll road that goes too far out of the way and costs more than my company will ever shell out.

Amen. You're referring to IH-35 (or was it HWY-70, HWY-290? They all are named the same with nicknames like "Research Blvd/Mopac/Benwhite" and others)... Rush hour traffic hours in Austin, TX are: 6am-10am, 2pm-3pm, 5pm-7pm for north-bound (any of the 2 highways). South bound is the polar opposite. :D

Worst... Cities with over 100k population...

Best... For a city of 100k is Billings, MT it has to be the quickest one to get through on the interstate during rush hour.

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 know it's already been answered, but my little brother and I wore out a VHS copy of Blazing Saddles growing up! Hilarious film!

I haven't had to drive through Atlanta much, but my least favorite that I usually do is Austin. Just one real highway through it, and any time of day it seems I wind up stopped or in 2nd gear for a long time. They need a real bypass, not the one dippy little toll road that goes too far out of the way and costs more than my company will ever shell out.

Amen. You're referring to IH-35 (or was it HWY-70, HWY-290? They all are named the same with nicknames like "Research Blvd/Mopac/Benwhite" and others)... Rush hour traffic hours in Austin, TX are: 6am-10am, 2pm-3pm, 5pm-7pm for north-bound (any of the 2 highways). South bound is the polar opposite. :D

Yeah, it's i35 thru Austin, and 130 is, I think, the bypass.

There is not a city, of any size, in the US that is not terrible during rush hour. NYC, Washington, D.C., Los Angles, Atlanta, etc. How about during off hours. That is where you learn what cities are bad to drive thru.

I have driven thru NYC, Washington, DFW, Atlanta, and many others during rush hour many many times. But without a doubt, in my opinion, the worst city any time, rush hour or not, is Chicago. There is almost no time of day it isn't rush hour there.

I have been thru there at 6am. 2pm. 2am. And have never found a time that it wasn't busy. With other cities there is almost always a time when the traffic is not "rush hour" and it is pretty easy to go thru.

Washington, DC. If you hit it before 6 or 7am, you usually don't have a problem. Same way with NYC area. Maybe a little earlier. But there are times you will be on easy street going thru.

I noticed Boston was mentioned. The serious thing to me about Boston is like Chicago. 53 foot boxes have no business inside the city limits at all.

At least in Manhattan they have banned anything over 40 feet (without a special permit and escorts). Now if the other boroughs would follow suit.

I was in a suburb of Boston the other day in my truck. The first time I was in that specific area in a truck. I was on pins and needles that whole time. And yes, I had an accident. Not my fault, but it still happened. I won't get into the details here, that is not the topic here. But suffice to say. 53 foot trailers don't belong in these cities.

Keep it safe out here, the life you save might be your own. The Blue Angel.

I haven't gone OTR yet, but I was wondering how Nashville was. I drove from Indianapolis to Chattanooga frequently as a kid and going thru Nashville in a car was a huge pain. Having to cross multiple lanes to get to 24 into Chattanooga was a nightmare and they give you barely any time to get to the proper lane. Also Nashville is called "the Speedway" for good reason. It seems like everyone does 90+ through there. Plus I've never been through Nashville without getting stuck in some kind of construction or traffic jam. And we traveled at all hours through there. Any thoughts as to how driving a rig is in that area?

You're talking North-South. I often drive I-40 East-West. There's a loop - 840 - that avoids the city and is a beautiful drive.

Indy to 'Nooga is still going into the city and is the usual congestion. For me, Atlanta is my boogie man. Birmingham AL of bad because ten miles of I-22 is still missing.

I haven't gone OTR yet, but I was wondering how Nashville was. I drove from Indianapolis to Chattanooga frequently as a kid and going thru Nashville in a car was a huge pain. Having to cross multiple lanes to get to 24 into Chattanooga was a nightmare and they give you barely any time to get to the proper lane. Also Nashville is called "the Speedway" for good reason. It seems like everyone does 90+ through there. Plus I've never been through Nashville without getting stuck in some kind of construction or traffic jam. And we traveled at all hours through there. Any thoughts as to how driving a rig is in that area?

I live in Chattanooga and frequently hit Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville. Atlanta, you are just plain screwed, Nashville, depends on your direction of travel. E to W on I-40, hit TN-840. It's worth the extra milage it adds. N to S on I-65 I usually run Briley prkwy, just to miss the construction at the 65/24 split. Cars driving 90 to nothing, there is a reason they call it "crashville".