Google is not your friend. Use an Atlas or at least a truck GPS.

So....funny story about that. One of my early loads with bones was a construction site. But where it was the ONLY way to get a big truck like mine in there due to buildings and a ditch around it was to pull forward over a bunch of graves then back in through said graveyard. They had to remove the tombstones and put down these giant wood mat things for the big rigs.

It was for the citys watertower which had been torn down because it had started to lean. And they were bringing in big end dumps full of a clay lime and a type of cement to stabilze the ground to replace said tower with.

 

Not a jackknife from the looks of it. The driver unhooked and turned around to leave.
Yup, let a tow truck deal with the trailer. I'm outta here.

Looks like a two lane road and pretty narrow. Probably not easy to get a sleeper tractor turned around. A 3 point turn becomes a 12 point or something.

 

Narrow winding roads with steep grades in WV…?!! Impossible, I’ve heard to many from out west say WV is a piece of cake, but maybe they weren’t were you were….

 

Heck I use Google maps to check clearance on overpasses around a customer just to make sure they're legal.....also how to approach the customer in general Google can show a lot of details....

 

The problem with GPS use by newbies is it's gives directions with certainty whether the info is accurate or not. Because it gives info with certainty, newbies, trust it and get used to ignoring that feeling of "uh oh" until they have physically wedged the truck into an alley, or restaurant hallway, or drainage culvert.

Starting with the atlas begins with The Big Picture context and you can drill down to more specific info, but it doesn't keep showing more and more detail until you see the way every pedestrian ties their shoes, as with a GPS. Because it doesn't flood the newbie with that detail the newbie has to stay involved in checking what he sees out the window matches what he expected to see.

You know how every newbie before he gets in a truck thinks driving a truck is just a vacation with a paycheck. Every newbie with a GPS thinks he is just the interface between the GPS and the truck steering wheel and turns off his brain. Combined with trainers that are not training, companies with nanny systems, and you get what we see every day of the week from GPS and smartphone zombies. "I've driven since I was 16 or 18, so I don't need to pay attention, AND I have GPS making all of the decisions. Why wouldn't I watch TikTok and Instagram instead of looking outside the truck?"

 

Google can help you see the historic bridges of Madison County

 

Lots of cow trucks have bought the farm on that road for sure.

I took the Oronogo road out to where they put the new round about in forever. It was skinny as can be too but other than cow trucks didn’t seem to be a lot of traffic.


I finally did settle on going through Webb city as the time the skinny road saved me wasn’t enough to matter to me anymore.

 

He’s talking about Hwy M you turn right by the MoKan drag way.

You can take something like OO maybe East of Carthage on 96 up to M and come out at the state line. It’s a doozy especially with the OD line trucks outta parsons.