I-40. I swore I was going to lose my boat every time l traveled it. My nephew still travels it for duck hunting. Every time he and I talk about it, we cuss it together.Originally Posted by bassworm1
I-40. I swore I was going to lose my boat every time l traveled it. My nephew still travels it for duck hunting. Every time he and I talk about it, we cuss it together.
East bound 696 between mound and Gratiot the two left lanes have a harmonic rhythm that at the right speed the trailer will be bouncing to the point the wheels come off the ground
"The handicapped angler"
I will not drive I-94 from the Illinois/Wiconsin border to Minneapolis. I’ll take a longer route instead.
Theres a section on the way to the lake that has weird grooves in it. Sometimes I forget about it and it sounds like a wheel bearing grinding or something. We also have a bridge that is like riding a roller coaster.
Been there, my new service truck has a wheel base that the the concrete roads around here just love. Feels like I am on big water, and unsettling
I-20 around Anniston, Alabama used to be really bad like that.
One time, spare bounced over sideboards on utility trailer. Luckily, no cars behind me when the tire jumped out of trailer.
I've made 2 trips to St. Clair on that route. #1 = tail lights quit working on trailer. #2 = flat tire. Isn't one of the candidates for governor campaigning on the pot hole platform?
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Did the exact same thing crossing from Georgia to Alabama. I was sure something had broken and pulled over. Can't remember the road but the trailer was all over the place.
Sitting in traffic on the DC beltway towing my boat this summer. There was a fender bender a couple hundred yards ahead. There was spot in the pavement just past a bridge where it looked like the asphalt had smeared for lack of better terms; a deep pothole followed by a raised area tall enough that I bet my civic would drag bottom. A spot about two feet in diameter right on the yellow line. Can't imagine hitting that at 70 mph in 4 lanes of traffic.
The Santa Ana freeway in Los Angeles bounced horribly in my mother's '65 Chevrolet Impala. It wasn't bad in my '65 Falcon.
When I-75 was new the stretch between about the 5 Mile Marker in Kentucky and Jellico Tennessee was awful. I bet the service stations in Jellico made a mint checking cars from people who didn't know better.
FWIW: Have you ever been to Stick Marsh?
Been on one. I-59 from Chattanooga going into Alabama. You would think you are on a railroad track the way it sounds sometimes.
Praying for a Cure
There is a stretch of I-90 that's bad and the sad thing is they spent 5 years working on it so it's new. You can feel it being "wavy" when driving on it, but once you get a boat hitched up its even worse. It's a swampy area so I think it's tough get the road right.
Brandon
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Johnson Faststrike 150
The expansion joints were at a distance apart and of a magnitude that it set up a harmonic in the springs on your vehicle. It’s unusual, but it does happen and can be dangerous.
I-10 in Louisiana. Horrible road.....
I bounce like crazy in my Tundra when driving on Hwy 55 anywhere South of St. Louis. If I speed up to about 80 or slow down to about 50, it stops
Back to the OP stretch of interstate in Detroit, my dad and I were coming home from St. Clair two weeks ago and experienced the same thing. I’m hoping they have I-75 finished by the time my children are old enough to be taking me up there to fish. I-75 north and south bound between Toledo and Detroit is aweful as well.
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Its funny you say that growing up my grandparents lived in little rock so every thanksgiving we would go from the time i was a small kid i always remembered them working on that road im 48 so let this sink in they have been working on it for almost 48 years and still going strong LOLThey were still working on that stretch last time I drove it a few months ago. I think generations have worked on that stretch and never seen it completed.
Sounds like most of I-69 from Port Huron MI to Indianapolis.....
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Welcome to Michigan, worst roads in the country!
It's an Arkansas thing. The same areas of I-40 have been under construction for 40 years (I'm not kidding). My dad always called it a "jobs program".
Think what would happen in this country if the many stopped fearing the few.
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