Be Careful Driving Through Vermont

100k worth of warning signage hasn’t stopped em....state makes more $$$$
And nothing changes
<sigh>

 

1 Whats the procedure supposed to be in CMV crossing an unguarded cross? Complete stop to look before proceeding?
2 Thats a well known spot to the locals, but every few weeks an out of state steering wheel holder tries to take that route as a shortcut, get rewarded with a nice $10-20k plus bill between the wrecker and fine

 

Don't forget the damage to the train.

 

The train accident is easily going to be hundreds of thousands between damage to the train, tracks, truck, and possibly surrounding property. I meant $10k for the "stuck in the notch" truck. The tow companies make a pretty penny when they get the call from VT troopers, and they fine the drivers heavily.

 

RANT ON,

Collecting any "penalty" applied to google (I prefer gaggle), would be interesting.
How is any Mapping System to be held accountable for the incompetence of State and City Controlled Streets, Roads, and Highways??
Google only needs to eliminate Smugglers Notch from Commercial Motor Vehicle Mapping Systems, as well for all other Roads that have been Pestered/Annoyed By/From Unwanted Heavy Truck Traffic.
SAME applies to ANY STATE that cannot, for whatever discombobulated reason(s), CEASE Heavy Truck Activity on Roads NOT DESIGNED for HEAVY TRUCK ACTIVITY (except Heavy Wrecker Truck Rescue Trucks) and that INCLUDES R. R. CROSSINGS.

There will continue to be "lost drivers in Heavy Vehicles" (since English is all but gone in Trucking) taking whatever roads they deem a direct connection from generally parsed senility or an actual ROAD ATLAS, God Forbid, regardless of said roads being thru routes, or to a dead end or off a mountain or into a lake.

/RANT OFF

 

Except for Some Roads that have Flat R.R. Crossings, I usually DID, in 70' Combos, slow down because MANY crossings, pond to pond, REQUIRED some speed reduction if not serious speed reduction because of the Tracks being higher than the Road. Usually crossed in 2nd gear or whatever those pesky automatic trucks used.
Some Crossings were "Beats Me" as well "Floor It Baby".

There's a local double tracks (for Slamtrack as well LONG Freight couplings) crossing near our house that was designed for off road Vehicles to cross at 45+ mph but everyone else needs slow down to around 25 to avoid a stretched Shocks or an airborne event.
I have seen ZERO Class A Combos speed at that crossing.