Most dangerous routes.

I've been to Procter and Gamble in Mahoopany once. Drop an empty and picked up a pre loaded trailer. At night, in the rain.
Dark as hades and hard to see anything that night!
I dropped the empty and found the load, my pick up info said 42500 lbs. Inspecting the trailer before hooking to it I discovered that on one brake drum, the shoes were gone. Not worn, GONE! Nothing there at all. Back axle on the other side the shoes were down to metal.
I called emergency maintance and they wanted me to "limp it" about ten miles to the local shop they had under contract!
Needless to say I refused to move it. No way was I taking any trailer on any road in that shape, let alone one loaded that heavy on those roads, in the rain!
After much heated "discussion" they relented got the repair guy on a 3 way call. He knew where I was and said he was on the way. Asked me to get hooked up and drag it out of the muddy lot and park it on the hardstand outside the gate.
I actually had to push it back against a tree before I could get under the thing! No brakes whatsoever. And those morons wanted me to pull it up and down those hills. :smt120
The mechanic got there just as I got out on the hardstand and replaced all the shoes and replaced the 2 tires that had so many flat spots they were shaped more like polygons than circles.
Less than 3 hours after I first spoke with him and I was on my not so merry but at least safer way back down twisty undulating US 6

 

Followed a local tanker over Hawk'sNest one time he was loaded and I only had 16k in the box Couldn't keep up with him.

 

How many coal buckets were lined up behind you when you got to I 64?

 

Hawks nest?Never again...Never

 

im sure it looked like a convoy


im not a fan of I68 from start to end lol its not bad until winter then it can get hairy. probaly one of the worst interstates in the winter in the east. mountain after mountain curve after curve.

rt 56 in pa between bedford pa and johnstown pa can be bad

 

i actually like I68 unless im loaded over 20k, then it sucks. And with the exception of that 45 mph zone through that town.

 

Seems like EVERY SINGLE load I get from Mahoopany is heavy (and going to some grocery D.C.) Seeing "Mahoopany" on the Qualcomm always sinks my spirits.

As far as dangerous roads go, I'd say just about every 2-lane mountain road in WV! And once you're on a bad road, there's no turning around. You must make it!

These days, I'll look up the unfamiliar routes on Google Earth before I trust the map.

 

NAH, You guys havent been anyhere. Try 114 from Saguache CO to 50 outside Gunnison, or Ridgeway to Cortez on 145 in the winter grossing 80000 of bulls in the snow. (Backwards:>):>)) It snows so hard snowblowers cant keep it clear. La Veta tto Walsenburg is another because it is a straight road after a 13% grade and looks pretty level and drivers get caught because they let it roll. I've been on all the back roads in Co w/protein blocks, salt and cow feed and cattle. Dangerous places there are!

 

BTW 25(2)+2 I've run 33 plenty of times, I live in VA and go to Elkton or farther W now run 55 which is getting better all the time (4 lanes) but 33 isn't all that bad unless there are school busses.

 

Just for fun, and a little bit for my curiosity I guess. Although I'm not yet in the industry, I will be soon and eventually out on the roads, so I thought I'd ask about a topic I'd heard mentioned before (by my truck driver cousin) that got my curiosity.

What road, if any necessarily, in the lower 48 states, do you consider to be the most dangerous to drive on, in poor conditions...like probably as in along the lines of rain, snow, hail, sleet, or stormy weather in general?

I remember a long time ago talking to my cousin who drives for Schneider, don't remember how it was brought up, but I believe it was a stretch of the I-84 that he mentioned, that runs something like from western Idaho, into eastern Oregon. I'm not too familiar with the area myself, but he was saying there's a mountain range in the area that the I-84 passes through, with a really heavily steep decline in elevation in one portion. He mentioned to me about how he was driving through there one time during a heavy snow downpour, got so bad he had to pull off to the side of the road to wait for the storm to subside, and while pulled over saw another truck come through that didn't manage to get slowed down enough in time for the decline, while my cousin was sitting in his truck on the side of the road, eating a sandwich, watched that truck lose control, plow through the guardrail, and go straight over the side of the mountain.

Of course like I said, I know nothing of that area/road myself personally, but since I brought up the topic, I thought it would only be fair for me to try to break the ice with the only thing that comes to mind.

Looking forward to whatever whoever has to say about this one! Thanks.