US highway 550 in New Mexico.

Just wondering if anybody can shed some light on as to why this highway that runs between Bloomfield and Bernalillo isn't highlighted as a truck route in the rand Mcnally trucker atlas. It's a non-median, four-lane highway and plenty of trucks travel that road every day so I don't understand why it wouldn't be. I even went as far as talking to a New Mexico state patrolman and was told it was.

Another funny thing, since my company uses rand Mcnally for our routing, whenever we get routed through there and if we're coming from salt lake going to Laredo for example, instead of routing us on 550, they route us down highway 371 to I-40 in Thoreau from Shiprock. Not sure how many extra miles out of the way it is, but I know its definitely longer travel time.

 

Mmm, there's nothing like a good'ole Navaho taco.

Just ran through there last night but with all the snowy weather from Moab to Bloomfield, we didn't have time to stop so we got nothing to gloat about!........lol

 

Well, I sent an email to the link you provided so maybe they'll answer that one. I've already sent two emails to another contact link somewhere else with no answer so we'll see, I guess.

I find it hard to believe rand Mcnally is using out of date information but I've been wowed before. As I said, maybe they'll answer this time with a reason but if they don't, its no skin off my backside. I know trucks are allowed to use that highway so I'll keep using it regardless of what rand Mcnally's excuse is for not showing that highway as a truck route.

 

You could be very well correct but it may not actually be the state of New Mexico's doing. Like I said, that state patrolman I talked with over the phone even said its a truck route.

Yeah, I think that's a lot of the reason why they turned it into a four lane. Well, that and the fact that it is a highly traveled road both by commuters and trucks.