Avoid Highway 49 Auburn to Cool, CA if you can.

I can't express the seriousness of this situation enough. I'm not exactly ranting here. This is more of a concerned post and if this isn't allowed please let me know and it can be deleted.

I almost had a head on with a big rig on this highway because of how tight the road is. Please please take the Sacramento to Placerville route instead if you have to get through Cool. I'm also not the only one on the Divide who has concerns about this. You can see in the video for yourself how dangerous it is.

Now I'll give credit where credit is due. I've seen a few of these truckers shift and adjust their load (or whatever it is that you guys do) and sometimes they have been able to get through this highway just fine. But if you get stuck you will be given a ticket and inspection by a CHP commercial unit. The survey crews have been working at the top of the 49 canyon on some sort of project at the signal. I hope that they are working on better signage. Clip posted below of what happened the other day, plus you can find more clips of big rig drivers having problems with this road. Just some friendly advice. Not really a rant.

 

It's a very sharp corner. He most likely got caught on the edge of the wall and was trying to force the trailer over the corner. I think I have a video of the other side with another big rig somewhere and I think that clip actually got shared to here by someone else. I'll dig it up later.

 

There is a sign but it's incredibly small and difficult to see. I doubt most of these truckers even see the sign.

 

Some of the truckers have had to pay for those big tow trucks and it's about an hour or more wait when it happens so they just shut down the highway and turn people around when that happens. I've never seen it happen myself but thought I might on Friday when this happened. He had a good 20 to 30 cars behind him waiting which makes me think he had been there for awhile before this clip since we don't have a lot of traffic in the afternoons during the work week.