I-70 Indiana and Western Ohio
Miserable, miserable, miserable. Mile after mile of trucks beating up the road. Even the freshly paved sections are lumpy. They didn't bother to do anything with the bridges (repaving adds too much...
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SidecarFlip wrote:
A big misconception with uninformed people today (and yesterday). The 'per square inch' of tire loading on a big truck (which is what impacts the road surface) is actually less on an 80,000 pound GVW, 5 axle vehicle, than it is on a 2 axle Honda Civic.
However, the plastic deformation of an asphalt road is caused by the re-bounce of dual axle truck and trailer, and I see this as a bigger problem. Once the bounce starts, closely spaced axles will make it worse, eventually resulting in a hole.
You can spout the company line about trucks not doing damage to the roads, but the right lane is always in worse shape than the left.
