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Old 06-20-2020, 04:14 PM   #17 (permalink)
jcp123
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Not saying this shouldn’t be looked into, but in trucking there are so many other variables that this would be a drop in the bucket. Wind and load weights are a big deal, and traffic as well. Just the clearing of traffic from the lockdown boosted me from around 8mpg avg to around 8.5mpg. From the standpoint of truck efficiency, the money would be better spent on mitigating traffic.

Selfishly, though, better roads would be nice. Louisiana, Indiana, Oklahoma, I’m calling you out! US-69 is an extremely common truck route through Oklahoma and is in awful shape. I rarely finish a day on that stretch without being grumpy. The truck itself rides more firmly than a 1-ton pickup, and even with the air cushion seat, it’s bad...you’re bouncing around all day, stuff flies around, occasionally a cabinet will open, and of course the worst is when I bottom out.
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