Posted on 07/31/2015 5:45:30 PM PDT by NRx
It's interesting how long some of those eastern states are in an east-west direction, and how far west the U.S. coastline runs as you go from New England through the Midatlantic states. Delaware and Maryland are the only states south of New Jersey that have any land mass further east than the city of Philadelphia.
Was it around Laramie somewhere?
I seem to remember a Flying J and a TA at Laramie. But I think there was a locally owned place about 10 or so miles west of there.
Agreed.
Getting older sucks big time.
Yep, That would be OH, WV, VA right?
In the beginning of the country, NC, and VA reached all the way to the Pacific.
They made us give some back. :)
My family traces back to Ireland, and from my research we were given a Land grant by British royalty that equated to most of VA at the time. Mostly I understand because we were hellions, bootleggers, and rogues, and she wanted us out of the UK.
Needless to say we got here and found out what we were told over there was worth a cup of warm spit over here.
I've driven on the German Autobahn. Our highways are absolutely deplorable compared to the Autobahn.
I didn't worry a bit about the condition of the road when the Mazda 6 Turbo Diesel I had rented in Germany was pushing @ 190kmh as I drove to the Netherlands. No potholes, no unexpected bumps or buckling in the road, none of that on the Autobahn.
In fact, the road was so good I pushed that Mazda Six Turbo Diesel all the way up to 220kmn on the way back. Amazing vehicle. A diesel that accelerated, sounded like, and ran like a gas powered engine, able to hit 220kmh (@140mph) and do that all day long.
I wouldn't dare try doing that on the American highway system with how crappy our roads are constructed and maintained.
Little America.
There’s a big hotel, and a really good restaurant on one side, and a huge Truck lot on the other side. The showers were all done in marble, and had tubs in them.
If you didn’t have time for the Restaurant you could get the best charbroiled hamburger from the grill in the fuel stop.
There’s 2 of them, one in Cheyenne, and the big one 60-70 miles out of Evanston.
I was running behind a guy in MT coming out of Billings eastbound, and his engine let loose.
Snowing like a dog, I saw the engine parts coming, but couldn’t swerve for danger of landing in the ditch.
Flattened 2 drive tires with chunks of engine block.
Stopped to help the guy, and his block had a hole the size of a basketball in it.
All of his tires were fine, damnit. I growled about that all the way to Fargo. Quick $600 out of the pocket. GRRR.
There are some roads when you get out west.
Don’t tell anyone, but my rig didn’t have a governor on it, and going through AZ, NV, Some places in MT, I had her up to 120-130 just to see what she would do.
No real weight, 10-12000 lbs of FedEx crap.
Isn't it the opposite. Most long haul goods in the US are sent by train, while in Europe the trains are used to move people?
That's why Eisenhower is one of the greatest Presidents ever. Eisenhower Interstate System is a modern marvel.
They have soda machines with beer as a selection. Drop in your coins and press the button for the local beer and Presto, beer for the road.
Now that is different from American highways.
And if you think that those southern Europeans are troublesome when it comes to waiting in lines then you likely would have issues with those camera toting Japanese tourists. They do not know what a line is. They just swarm.
Cultural distinctions exists. I prefer ours and I disdain others.
Captain Eisenhower was on the 1919 Army Motor Transportation Convoy that took two months to drive across the United States.
In the 30s the War Department sent Ike to Europe map the roads of France and take a look at the surrounding nations roads.
Any route OUT of Chicago is good.
Yeah, what’s wrong with our truckstops? They’re generally always clean although very busy and a vast variety of food that is not grey and nice touristy shops to buy postcards and knickknacks. Also, not a very original point of view if the main point is that the Italians are not like the Germans. And I’ve never seen Italians rush a truckstop. And I’ve been to Italian truckstops.
Did you ever manage any other fast food besides Pizza Hut? Those cravings, you know.
He could just as well have used that sort of argument/reasoning to have been saying that Blacks and Whites will never live in amity - I wonder if he realized this....
Great family history! LOL.
The economies of scale definitely weigh in favor of rail transportation at long distances, but trucks can cover long distances faster in the U.S. — so they are generally used to haul time-sensitive loads even when the shipping rates are lower for rail. Fresh produce from California, for example, is shipped to the east coast by truck even though it would be much cheaper to move it by rail.
That’s why Eisenhower is one of the greatest Presidents ever. Eisenhower Interstate System is a modern marvel.
Ike got the idea from the German Autobahn. Recently I was on it right at the spot where Patton was injured and later died from the wreck with a US Army deuce and a half. Heidelberg..... There are no speed limits on the autobahn until you approach certain exit ramp areas.
Craig is an ignorant provencial that has no clue about that which he writes.
he needs to get out, not more, but at all
A lot of the really long haul in the US is TOFL or COFL now. (Around here, at least, containers on flat cars seem more popular, as they can be double stacked while the trailers go single high. In the east, I understand that there are a lot of tunnels that can’t take the double stacks.)
Ofcourse, intellectually, I KNOW smelly, unprocessed cheeses>than chemicalized faux McDonalds food...But, what can you do?
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