Favorite way to skip the interstates?
I get lazy with my routing sometimes and rely too much on Google Maps and my in-dash nav. It’s easy enough to skip the interstates in an area you’re familiar with, but I’d be interested in hearing...
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Just yesterday I had an incident that supports why I use interstates when possible. I was traveling US 20 between Albany and Newport Oregon. I was going about 5 over the speed limit towing a 5 th wheel.
A pickup following me decided I was going too slow. He started to pass and when he was beside the trailer another car pulled out from a side road onto the highway in the same lane as the pickup.
Now someone has to do something. The car can only brake as no place to pull over as road is narrow with steep drop off and no shoulder.
I felt if I were to brake the pickup would not make it around me in time. Luckily the pickup decided to brake hard and wait for me to pass him before he came to the car.
A pickup following me decided I was going too slow. He started to pass and when he was beside the trailer another car pulled out from a side road onto the highway in the same lane as the pickup.
Now someone has to do something. The car can only brake as no place to pull over as road is narrow with steep drop off and no shoulder.
I felt if I were to brake the pickup would not make it around me in time. Luckily the pickup decided to brake hard and wait for me to pass him before he came to the car.
