Shenandoah,VA.,Semi rollover on I-64 Ramp.

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don't mean to profile, but I wonder if that was a mexican truck. Either way, VA has some of the worst on/off ramps on the east coast. Gotta read those speed signs!!( if you can read english)
 
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don't mean to profile, but I wonder if that was a mexican truck. Either way, VA has some of the worst on/off ramps on the east coast. Gotta read those speed signs!!( if you can read english)
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Mexico is like Europe in that of using Metrics. 25 KPH ain't 25 MPH.
For those that don't know the difference, please learn:
http://www.conversion.ws/speed.htm

May not have been a Mexican, Paki, or other foreigner at all as there are QUITE MANY incompetent AMERICAN drivers that drive Combos like they're 4 wheelers.

Virginia does not have the worst on/off ramps. Virginia is merely ONE OF MANY STATES that have OUTDATED ON/OFF RAMPS, yet not all ON/OFF RAMPS are short.
I-81, I-77, I-64 have very FEW short on/off ramps.
LOOK AT ANY STATE for confirmation of OUTDATED ON/OFF RAMPS.
Remember these Interstates/Intrastates were constructed in the (30s? &) 40s and as such, 48' & 53' trailers had not been created and People weren't driving Motor Homes and towing 2-3 trailers and 4 wheelers HAD SUFFICIENT POWER and People knew better how to navigate ON/OFF RAMPS, than most undereducated or just plain incompetent drivers in this Decade.

Apart from Combos, very FEW 4 wheeler drivers understand what ACCELERATION means, until these trainees pull out in front of a rolling at speed vehicle (like You or Me in a weighted Combo) THEN DECIDE to initiate speed.
I do not reduce MY SPEED nor move over for these trainees. I watch as they get to the end of the ACCELERATION LANE (while NOT accelerating) and end up in the BREAKDOWN LANE where they belong.
 
Actually Dwight Isenhour started the interstate system in 55 and it was in the 60s and 70s that many states had not completed theirs. Never have seen any specs or regs for ramps but the roads themselves have regs as far as gradient degrees and such.
 
Interchanges were originallay planned, designed and built for safety..........

As time has passed, land costs have risen (corners are worth more for developments), and the tightest curl you can pave is the norm. Don't waste fuel and track on a lot of grading, just pave the terrain as it lies. Look at your older interchanges in the more open spaces around cities.

By the way, we were still running US80 from Jax, MS to El Paso in 1958. NM was in process of
going 4 lane past Deming toward Lordsburg. Interstates are still a novelty to some ole guys...
 
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