interstate highway system

The Interstates here in NM are pretty smooth IMO. Part of the deal with raising the rural limit to 75 mph was the repair of the interstates to bring them up to a "75 mph standard".

 

Minnesota can get bad, especialy in the spring as the snow and ice melt, water gets in the crack and crevices, at night it freezes, thus expanding and causing bigger potholes and cracks. It does that over and over, till a 4 wheeler rips his axle off on a pothole.

 

yep , DFW is bad about the interstate road conditions. I travel I20 east all the time and the road is horrible. The bumps are so bad that sometimes I fly out of my seat. but I travel highway 80 which runs parallel to 20 and its much better. same with 45 and 35. state roads are better.

 

I-10 from the Texas line to about Iowa(eye-o-way),LA. You pretty much have to drive in the left lane all the way through. Then pretty smooth until past Gonzales,LA when you start heading down to New Orleans. Also I-55 betweeen Mississippi and Louisiana is pretty rough.

 

Roughest piece of road I ever travelled on is I-55 between Mississippi and Louisiana. I hauled a load from Chicago, scaled it legal when I loaded it, scaled legal in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and after going through the rough roads in MS, hit the jointly run scale at the state line and got nailed fo being 1500 over on the drives. The rough roads shook that much of the load of starch forward on me. Since it's a joint scale, paying a fine in one state automatically makes you guilty in the other one as well. Ended up paying about 225 in fines before getting out of that ripoff joint. They were shaking down about every 4th truck that went through, strictly for the purpose of making money. And when the states cried poormouth in the wake of the Hurricane, I didn't feel too charitable towards them. They were scaling and fining trucks carrying relief supplies in the aftermath.

 

Most Interstates in the DFW area are maintained by private firms. Once outside DFW area, maintenance goes back to the State. Funny how the State maintains better than the private firms.

This is what to look forward to on the Indiana Toll Road now that it is Leased out. I drove it last week and can tell it is worse now than before the Leasing Company came in.

 

i guess you guys haven't been to the east coast lately. how about I-78 east into jersey where I-95 comes together. I-95 gave me a beat down the other day going to New Hampshire. going up through jersey, new york and it was so funny how smooth the roads got going into conneticut. then there is I-75 in south Ga. they have been working on them for years and it's just getting worse............