Most dangerous routes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXQgq1_iwY&feature=related

lol

 

You like going down that mountian? It's fun ain't it?

 

Only time actually. We would normally load a full load out of Portland going back east, but this trip nothing was available so I did a regional delivery instead of just waiting around.
Lewiston and Twin Falls, no other way to do that.

It was a wild job. Once I loaded a 6 stop out of Eugene grossing 82k. First stop I put off 3k in Mountain Home and I was legal. Last drop in FL.
Only catch was running 126 to 20 all the way across. Run all night before Burns opens.
Then I dropped down out of Caldwell to 78 to miss the big scales. Didn't know about that station down there. I freaked out, but they just waved me on.

 

Here was a fun one. Resort north of Truckee. Last minute deal that should have been closed a month before, but they didn't want to wait until spring and risk losing the sale.
Incline Village was the same deal. We didn't go in from Oct through Mar.


This place was 1000 ft above I-80 and I had to cimb empty and come out loaded. Had to chain up just to get in the upper level of the parking lot.

 

No, the dragon tail is US Hwy 129. It goes south from TN down to GA. US Hwy 321 runs east and west from Boone, NC to TN and yes, it is pretty hairy also.

 

Yeah I realized that after I said it.

 

Which one? I'm around in those parts.

 

When I got off the interstate I went north to a light and turned left.
Then straight up this hill from hell. I remember it was about an hour before dark and it was starting to get that shiny glaze and I was praying I wouldn't break traction. It snowed that night and I just stayed up there.
Been a few years now, but does Coyote Creek sound right? Maybe not.

 

I didn't see it on the first page, so I'm assuming it hasn't been mentioned on the others.

Danger aside...Mont Eagle in TN has been labeled as the deadliest for truckers. More truckers have died on that grade than any other in the US. The majority of those being log truck drivers.

On the bright side...it's better now since the interstate was built.

Historically speaking, even Highway 41 is relatively new.

 

Actually, I think they should retitle that video as "Look at all the dumb### bikers that are looking to kill themselves."

You run the Dragon on bike, at night. That way you can see the lights of traffic approaching the curves.

Unless of course, you're really just sight seeing. Which 95% of bikers that take that route, do so for the thrill.