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  1. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

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    Better than jerseys jug handles haha
     
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  3. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

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    And some of those are 2 lane jug handles where 1 lane is hardly enough for a 40ft can
     
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  4. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    St. James, MN has some really tight radius ones, but we no longer drag our spreads up there.

    WI seems to be in love with the concept.

    Slows everything down, laws of physics are disobeyed only with a price.

    And it makes a uturn easier and safer to accomplish.
     
  5. singlescrewshaker

    singlescrewshaker Road Train Member

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    Correct again. I misspoke. What we have are definitely called Diverging Diamonds on the 3 exits near my home..

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  6. Rubber duck kw

    Rubber duck kw Road Train Member

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    Yeah, those confuse the living daylights out of a poor country boy when you first hit them.
     
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  7. Ridgeline

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    I know that one, it is screwed up, just like the interchange at university and 75, it isn’t a roundabout but it is a huge waster of money and very confusing,
     
  8. 86scotty

    86scotty Road Train Member

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    The problem isn't the new fangled traffic control ideas or the engineering behind em, the problem is the education. They just throw these things up and expect people to figure it out. Not only that, they expect people to figure out how to share them with big trucks. EVERYTHING about the road is different when big trucks are around. How to merge, how to brake, why you shouldn't cut us off, how wide we turn, all of it.

    There is no education out there for your average young driver on how to safely move around us but they just keep on putting more of us out there without putting out more education and training for 4 wheelers.
     
  9. krupa530

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    Wait until they start doing magic roundabout's!!
     
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  10. not4hire

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    Try hauling 60' L x 12' W shacks on extended lo-pro step decks through them. o_O

    A bad one was on highway 3 on the north side of Billings by the airport. I would just set up in the middle of the road and take it all. :) Worse was the turn in Billings from I-90 business route onto 87. Had to make the right turn from the left turn lane and no escort... had to get pretty aggressive on both, but that's on the local drivers.

    The 117 truck bypass in Val-d'Or, Quebec is five roundabouts in a row. It isn't magic, but it isn't too bad either. Again with the OS loads I just take as straight a path as I can.

    Been through the divergent diamond in Cheyenne quite a bit and we've got one here too. They're a bit weird the first time, but they work well.
     
  11. daf105paccar

    daf105paccar Road Train Member

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    These are more truck friendly.
    And wide/long loads can use all off it as you can drive over marking/curbstones (at slow speed)
    The curbstones don't have hard edges and are very low.
     
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