Confusion about rumble strips

Concrete surfaces are LOUD! They make a great underlay, though...

 

It’s very noticeable when your truck jerks to the side? hunh? well I'd stay away from MS then with those truck ruts on I55. unless they fixed that silly stretch of road by now?

 

Does MS ever fix ANYTHING?

Back when I used to occasionally drive down that way, I used to laugh at the scale houses they had; every other state had air-conditioning, big windows, and loudspeakers to communicate to the driver on the scale. MS, OTOH, had little concrete block 'chicken coops', with one sweaty DOT guy sitting at a desk with a fan blowing, and if you had an issue, he had to walk out of the building to your truck, and tell you to pull around to the back...

 

How many years ago was that?

 

35 years.

 

Hey, I'm not trying to shame MS. I don't blame them, they do what they can with what they got to work with. That being said, what do you think of the Long Island Expressway?

 

Shoulders? Huh? Do you think Kansas has ever heard of a 'shoulder', driving on some of their little skinny 2 lanes...?

 

BTW: thanks for making me feel old. Lol

 

Yeah, when I first started driving we were just getting these new-fangled 53' trailers, and I was the first in my company to take one into New York (even though they wouldn't be legal for another 2 months....). You young bucks today think YOU got it rough? I spent my first 6 months driving an International 9670 single-wide sleeper with a 300hp Big-Cam Cummins mated to a 7-speed with a short-throw shifter, and no radio!