“I have to wonder how many “lookouts” he had along the way to avoid the various State Highway Patrol’s and their “eyes in the sky.”
That’s a good question, I don’t see how he did it without some sort of blockers. I don’t see any other way to do it almost, but you would have to have a heck of a lot of folks in place up ahead. Do they get on the highway and do 85 for so many miles until he passes them? Or is he just relying on his radar jammer and hopes nobody actually eyeballs him whiz on by?
Freegards
That's exactly what I was thinking. So what's the probability this guy got lucky and didn't get stopped ONCE versus having blockers or lookouts ahead of him?
Common sense would be he had blockers or lookouts planned out and ahead of him for the route he was taking.
Think about this too, his "average" speed was what, 89? Counting construction zones (no way he didn't run into any of those) or parts of the interstate that are still 55 mph (such as the I-80 corridor that runs not far from me) there are parts of that trip that he was likely well above his posted average speed.
I just don't see a way he made the entire trip in 29 hours at 89mph on average without lookouts, jammers or both.
I'll bet it was fun as heck though! :-)