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100+ tickets in a day for big rigs in North Carolina mountains; semi trucks get stuck, flip

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by TheLoadOut, Nov 17, 2024.

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  1. Nov 17, 2024 #1
    TheLoadOut

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    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — With Interstate 40 still closed in the North Carolina mountains from Hurricane Helene flooding, officials are warning truckers not to use narrow, winding roads instead of designated highways.

    Law enforcement handed out more than 100 tickets just on Thursday as drivers of “large trucks” tried to use “non-truck routes” to cross the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

    “Travel between western North Carolina and Tennessee is limited, especially for trucks greater than 30 feet long,” the NCDOT said on Thursday.

    As of Saturday, 294 roads are still closed and an additional 42 roads are closed especially to truck traffic, according to the Hurricane Helene dashboard from the NCDOT.

    The only large truck routes to/from western North Carolina are Interstate-77 to Interstate-81 or Interstate-40 to U.S. 74, officials said.

    Officials said Saturday that they plan to first open one lane of I-40 in each direction with the split at the tunnel near the Pigeon River. The NCDOT has targeted the I-40 partial reopening for New Year’s Day.

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  3. Nov 17, 2024 #2
    drvrtech77

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    Money says they can’t read signs or even English for that matter..there is signs everywhere over there.
     
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  4. Nov 17, 2024 #3
    Grumppy

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    Some of these people can actually read the signs, they just ignore them.

    "Ummm, I know it says closed to big trucks but... that can't mean for me.?.? It's got to be for some other reason. I think I can still go this way. At least my GPS says I can go this way. I think I'll try it. I gotta get this load delivered. How else am I gonna get it there? Surely I don't have to go all the way around 200 or 300 hundred miles out of the way!?!? The sign has got to be for some other reason."
     
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  5. Nov 17, 2024 #4
    Diesel Dave

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    Can you say GPS told me to do it…… :D
     
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  7. Nov 18, 2024 #5
    drvrtech77

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    Maybe it’s just that time now to start taking licenses away for a period of time or maybe permanently depending on the record of the driver with these people keep doing stuff like this…
     
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  8. Nov 18, 2024 #6
    SomeCanadian

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    Be careful, some small town might put in a one block no truck route on a highway just to feel powerful. Needs to have a few rules in that rule to prevent mis use.
     
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  9. Nov 18, 2024 #7
    bryan21384

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    North Carolina is about to get all their road damages paid for by issuing these citations. More citations to come. This is quite laughable.
     
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  10. Nov 18, 2024 #8
    RockinChair

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    I took US 25 in a U-Haul one time and didn't like it, no way would I even think about taking a tractor-trailer on any of those little back roads.
     
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  11. Nov 18, 2024 #9
    Arctic_fox

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    Right? Its like.....why did you not spend literally 30 seconds googleing your route? Then again this is all a symptom of a larger issue. Sure the fact we have non english speaking or reading drivers and drivers who just pretend they cant then howl racism to get out of tickets fines and punishments is a part of it.

    But a lot of it is also that many of these "schools" wont train a driver with even the most basic skills. especially after the new laws requireing you to go through trucking school. Then you have a generation of clueless morons who couldnt logic their way out of a paper box. And that gets further compounded because we have a generation of officers and judges who arent revokeing these ######### licenses for dumbassery. All combined you have THIS and its pretty pathetic.
     
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  12. Nov 19, 2024 #10
    zodiacflyer

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    Will County, Illinois is like this... they built a TON of warehouses, then all of a sudden, a bunch of roads around the warehouses get restricted.
     
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