Strange phenomenon with fresh blacktop.

That’s what it was! You were getting tossed around by the dips in the road

 

This thread makes for a good country song: (great guitar also)

Chris Rea - The Road To Hell 1989 Video

 

Sometimes they oil the road, as in they apply a coat of oil on top.
Maybe it wasn't a new road, but a freshly oiled one.

I have seen signs saying "Freshly Oiled Road", and the road was a bit shiny.
Always a reason to go low and slow.

 

84E in through newtown CT area had the deepest, squirreliest saddles i ever drove in, other than right next to the fuel terminals on page blvd in springfield mass. Those things get any deeper and theyll be a jersey barrier!

 

Schuylkill river trail is a nice ride. I used to ride from trooper rd to the art museum and back a lot. Going the other way from trooper rd to perkiomenville is kinda rough tho.

 

Yes - and not the one you were talking about.
You were talking about roads that made your truck squirrley.
No squirrels were harmed in the making of his roads.

Youse guys want a beauty of a road?
Try 380 north from Mt. Pocono to Scranton. They paved it, and are cutting one lane at a time
and are digging it back up. Where was the Inspector? He should be fired and horsewhipped.

Or how about Rt. 611 going from Mt. Pocono to Tannersville?
It's the perpetual Sewer line construction/road resurfacing fiasco for over 2 years.
Now they took one lane and cut out the concrete. It will never be completed.

What gets me is I go on some obscure side road, and there is new blacktop,
flawlessly executed for miles. Kicker is, no-one drives these side roads.

 

I'm watching these guys take a big hydraulic hammer on a big excavator and make it all brick sized chunks.When Morresy out of Philadelphia did some "redo" on Rt. 80, they took an Excavator and hooked the whole sheet, and ripped it out in one chunk, and stacked them on a lowboy,
took them to a low spot in the median, and covered it with dirt. Easy-peasy.
This seems like by the hour, vs. by the job. Or pro vs. am.

 

Ever driven on concrete that has been grooved? Same problem there are as well

 

I-5 between Marysville and Everett. Chained trucks gouge huge ruts. When it rains that corridor is a sure thing for accidents.