Harvey51 wrote:
.. but highway 43 goes north and south....
Looks SE/NW, or even a 300deg bearing.
Gary's guess about oil equipment makes sense. The Sat view shows lots of straight roads running to square clearings in the woods.
And if it was an overwide load, there might not have been room to go around it on the left. Or the equipment could have been slowing to turn onto a gravel road.