Strange phenomenon with fresh blacktop.

ALL road work in the Northeast is bad!!!!!

 

could be the "oils" in the new blacktop seeping it's way up to the top.

remember back in CDL school (or any driving school) that we were told the first few minutes of driving in a rain can be especially slippery.??

that's cuz all the embedded oils/fluids form all the traffic start rising in the rain to be washed away.

i'd only suggest when driving on new blacktop, be aware of the slippery conditions as the average 4 wheeler certainly will not, and may slide into you.

 

I am thinking modern roads are not made as good as old methods of blacktop. But I'm am just guessing.

 

well i'll say this, about that....




back in the olden days, there was a very thick concrete sub-base, then several inches of blacktop. i can recall many highways not needed pot hole repairs or resurfacing for decades.

then came along MORE federal highway monies, and the bid process for repairs.

it takes x millions of dollars to cut up, and repave the roads, and no one had better believe that all that work is under the bid..there are ALWAYS cost over-runs, and as a result, the concrete sub base maybe gets patched, rather than replaced and LESS blacktop is used, and more often than not, the blacktop is done in stages, rather than an entire width, leaving way too many long running seams, to allow water to get in, freeze, and give us pot holes.

all this for the wonderful fuel tax, and tolls truckers pay dearly for.

 

What's the industry in the area? Trucks might be hauling heavy through there creating dips

 

Jack that truck up and make sure you arent losing a wheel bearing.

Last year i lost the front passenger side bearing which wiped out the spindle locknut and cotter and ejected entire hub. I got ONE warning.. It was a random countersteer. I was veering right at a fork at 1am headed to work in november and it lunged to the left. I thought i slid on black ice in the fork. It was the race letting go. 1/4 mile later there was just enough growl to get slowed down before bang.. Parked on the front beam in middle of the road.

And no it wasnt neglect.

 

Road oil can come to the top with a change in temperature, doesn't have to be hot.
Sometimes it's just condensation on top of the fresh asphalt, but it can still be slippery.
As for the rut thing, if you have low pro tires you'll feel the ruts a lot more than you will with taller tires, one of the reasons I prefer 24.5 over 22.5 tires, the taller tires are more forgiving, don't wander so much.

 

A few weeks ago I went over fresh asphalt stretch and later my trailer has fresh new undercoat pretection.