How do otr drivers cope with these situations?

I don't play games with people I don't know

 

You can always call local law enforcement to ask about a detour route you plan on taking.

 

I do that pretty often but a few times discovered that the podunk southern hollar yer in doesnt actually have any law except 35 miles away to the county seat its in... And the lady who answers has no idea how to drive anything bigger than a tahoe.

 

Fixed that for you.

 

GPS.
Not to "reroute", just to use it like an atlas/map. Zoom out of the map so you can see. Truck routes are usually highlighted in some way, but not always.

This brings me to my biggest peve for GPS systems. They don't have the processing power to handle zooming out and panning around the map to find another route quickly. They often lock up/freeze when you do it. Which makes them useless when you need them. And it happens often enough when the road or entrance ramp is closed for construction and you need to figure out where to go quickly. Only if you are lucky there is a place to pull off and work something out.

Asking on the CB for an anternate route helps also.

 

Well, do it the same way you find alternate routes around scale houses. lol

I guess I never knew it was so complicated if there was an alternate route, If I couldn't get any info on the radio, and there was something resembling a road going in the general direction I needed I just took it, been known to run dirt roads a few times.
I have been stuck where there was no place to get off at all, I-17 north of phoenix comes to mind and with a fatality on a sunday night, just went to bed.

 

We throw our hands up in the air and cry: Please, won't a milkhauler tell me how to get around?

Seriously, dude. We can manage. No need to worry.

 

1100 pages you must’ve been away from that thread a few weeks it’s 1900 plus now . I can’t keep up either lol