I'll ask Rubber Duck, he's from Albuquerque.
Posted on 03/05/2015 3:09:49 PM PST by Jonty30
My sisters and I are visiting Branson. We decided to take a drive to Memphis to see son bands on Beale. This morning, on our return to Branson, the west bound lane was being blocked by trucks and all intersections, for the next four hours traveling time, were also blocked so all westbound traffic would be funnelled onto the 55.
It was obviously a deliberate act on the truckers because there were places where they could have moved forward, but they were parked and forcing cars to be locked in as well. I assume that there might have been news about it because there were far more trucks than cars on the road and so I would think that locals were informed and chose other routes.
I did an internet search before posting here, but nothing came up.
bad weather???
I'll ask Rubber Duck, he's from Albuquerque.
The roads did have slippery spots, but traffic was not impeded significantly in the west bound lane.
Part of coast shipping strike?
Southern Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee had a lot of snow in a short period of time that had the interstates backed up. Parts of KY had up to 21 inches.
To be clear, I’m not blaming the truckers for this. If it was deliberate, it was probably justified.
I’m just thankful it was on the westbound and not the eastbound. :)
I had something similar happen to me about 30 years ago. All the semi’s had pulled over, dozens and dozens of them. Then I realized that I was doing 70 mph on black ice.
I backed of really slowly.
I know there was some bad weather, but it didn’t seem bad enough to stop traffic completely. There was no stoppage in the eastbound lane. If both sides were stopped, it would have been more obvious it was weather related, but the westbound was hardly affected.
I should make mention that Im Canadian and snow will not stop a Canadian. We eat snow for breakfast :)
Black ice is the worst. Not even snow tires and all wheel is much of a safety factor.
They’re protesting the indiscriminate use of apostrophes for pluralization.
"Cross my palm with silver and I'll give you any answer you want. I'm broke!"
Has anyone tried the mobile phone apps that supposedly let you listen to CB radio?
I haven’t had a CB in my car since the mid 1980s, but being able to listen in a situation like you experienced could be handy.
Maximum Overdrive. Run!!
The roads through Kentucky and eastern TN are closed. They pull over where they can, and hunker down.
I can understand pulling over, but the truckers were completely blocking the entire highway, almost to the 60 interchange to Springfield and almost all interchanges from Memphis to highway 60.
If they were all just on the side, I would have assumed road conditions.
Snow in Memphis is paralysis. They can’t unload their rigs because the workforce won’t show up for work. They fear snow more than Ebola.
Aw,come on.
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