Best And Worst Cities For Trucking Traffic?

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Linden R.'s Comment
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Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, and Houston, TX are tops on my list as worst. As far as the best? Buford, Wyoming, exit 335 on I-80. Officially smallest town in US, population 1. LOL.

HAHAHA rofl-3.gifrofl-3.gifrofl-1.gif I think I would like that town XD Do what ya want XD

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

Yup... I live in RI and go to Virginia and Pennsylvania often early in the morning taking that route.

Linden R.'s Comment
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90% of people from Connecticut don't know how to drive... We have a joke in my family where if we see a bad driver, we just say "They must be from Connecticut" And then look at the license plate. And most of the time we're right rofl-2.gif

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Brett for President!!

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Or at least Chairman of the FMCSA.

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I concur "harumph harumph"

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

Some kind of Elephant from The Jungle Book? XD dancing-banana.gif

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Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager

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Linden R.'s Comment
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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.

I've said that's what we need on I-75 south of Detroit; it's just one big convoy of truck after truck after truck.

We need that around NYC... Whenever I am going through there on my road trips, it's like a truck stop (although I do enjoy it because I play a game I made up called Truck Tally where I tally up how many trucks I see from each manufacturer and see which is most popular. I will admit I have done this seemingly boring thing for about 5 hours at a time, and NYC is the best. But anyways this is way off subject)

I am going to find a map of the NYC area and use a photo editor to show an example of what I mean and will post it later.

Dm:

Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager

The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Paul F. 's Comment
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I'm not a truck driver (yet) but I drive annually from upstate NY to Virginia Beach VA. when I got my gps it took me down 95 through Baltimore and D.C. (The beltway) and I was in bumper to bumper for 5.5 hours. It too 14 hours. Usually I go down 13 down the peninsula, over the bay bridge 8 hours.

I drive NYC from time to time and would not want to take a truck there, however I'm quite comfortable in a car.

Connecticut drivers and New Jersey drivers are the worst on the planet, and nothing yall can say will convince me otherwise.

(I know I'm off topic, but) The most boring road I've ever driven was Florida's turnpike. I went from west palm to Orlando and took it for much of the way. I went through the Everglades it was flat, nothing to see, straight. It is the only road I've ever been on that has 2 rest areas between 2 exits. It was about 22 years ago so may be different now.

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