Church In Pennsylvania Hit By A Runaway Truck For A FIFTH TIME!!

Maybe the greed of the patp will finally resonate on PA lawmakers .
I only run it from valley forge to 283 or avoid it altogether running 95 to 695 to 70 to 68 to 79 to70 from far south jersey .
I've been an NY and NJ guy for many years but am starting to avoid it with high tolls and lousy outbound rates.
Indiana's toll hike doesent help either .

 

The Lord works in mysterious ways

 

So.... Rather than stop jacking up the tolls every year, they'd rather put in place a runaway ramp? Okay then. That makes perfect sense. Knowing those idiots, they'd probably pave it. Airborne 18 wheeler, anyone? Because that's how you get airborne 18 wheelers.

 

The Cumberland I-68 solution would be to build a wall feet thick pre-stressed concrete. That Protects the Urban Core of downtown.

I don't think this is the only wall, this one is a example.

 

A giant bridge from Big Savage mountain to just east of Cumberland would be great, too. But the toll would be ridiculous

 

I don't know how they can build something that big. I-68 was a big interstate built to replace a old National Road also known as 40-48 which very early in my trucking day, literally during trucking school and the first year after we learned how to run that without a jake brake and without any of that nice I-68 that came later.

If you want one picture online with Google earth, take a look at Luke Maryland. There is a T intersection at a stop sign below a steep mountain ridge. Opposite is a straight rock cliff face covered in crosses from the people who could not stop and were killed running into that mountain.

Big Savage Mountain almost killed my uncle in his run away gas tanker int he 50's of all things. and almost gave me some trouble myself a time or two in ice and fog. However I managed to do ok and get away with it. I don't run I-68 if I can help it. I'll either use the PA Pike out of route in winter noreasters or stay in virginia-West Virgina and cross over on either US 15 or US 340 depending on load or empty status in those days. More out of route miles but it's something we did to totally and completely bypass Cumberland Maryland.

 

So if he stopped at the top of the hill and still went to fast? Sounds like he grabbed too many gears.

 

Last winter, I ran 68 from Hancock to Morgantown. Monday through Friday. All winter long. I must say, as much as I despise the state of Maryland, they do a pretty good job with the nightly snowstorms that seem to come out of nowhere. And, while the girls at the scalehouse in Finzel are easy on the eyes, they are not very friendly. The cops patrolling the road though, are really a great bunch.

I still wonder why that road has such a bad reputation around here. When I talk to other local drivers and they ask where I've been lately, and I tell them I've been running 68, I get the stink eye. Happens all the time. And then "why not run the Turnpike?" And my answer is always less traffic, and the traffic I do see knows how to drive. And it's so much cheaper.


I've looked up that intersection in Luke that you speak of. Google Earth gives a good idea of what it's like. Not something to toy around with for sure.

 

People just don't understand the experience that a driver needs to handle mountain climbing. West Virginia and Pennsylvania will really test you and I'm sure mega company's do nothing about training there new driver's for this as I have seen them at the bottom of the mountain before