Best and worst places to drive?

I70 west of Denver gets pretty rough in the winter...Wyoming as well..seems to be high winds all the time and I80 gets shut down quite a bit in the winter. If you are lucky you can still run Rt. 30 at Laramie, but it gets shut down to at times, although maybe not as much as 80 does. Just about any of the western states in winter can get pretty hairy.

 

My preference was always southwest or southeast, though Midwest is ok. The worst would have to be anywhere around NYC (too Congested) or California (Too many Regs).

 

I spent some time in a ditch in Colorado and below a bridge in Oklahoma. Neither was really a joy.


Strike.

 

In order from greatest to least...

Best - Denver, almost all of Ohio, Montana, Kansas City, Russellville, AR. (Always plenty of parking and frieght ready to be delivered)

Worst - NYC, Philadelphia, Atlanta (dumb drivers), Dallas (99% all roads under construction), Chicago (during rush hour), Baltimore (has the most no truck signs methinks even in places where you can drive a truck.) Indianapolis (DOT can't wait to pull a truck over with their super slow speed limits).


A lot of jobs advertise that they only drive in the midwest as a selling point or "no northeast". Personally I love driving through the Rocky Mountains. The views are beautiful year round.

 

I like it all except the boring states like KS. One time I drove for 3 hours and didn't even see a bird. That's bad when they fly around the state.

 

Troll........

 

texas isn't to bad, outside of the major cities everything is wide open. I35 of DFW is rough due to the construction of widening... But outside of that its all wide open and fast.

 

I-80 in my opinion is the worst interstate in the country, from sea to shining sea. Where you don't have the mountains you have the high traffic volume from Nebraska and every state east of there trying to kill you.

I would take New York over California any day, at least I can go 65 in NY and idle my truck without being treated like a felon.

Any major metro area at the wrong time of day is a nightmare, but some are worse than others. Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore- DC, The entire stretch of I-35 from DFW to San Antonio, Philadelphia, Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul-Saint Cloud, Seattle get my vote for the worst of the worst.

My favorite is any open interstate or two lane where I can set the cruise and go, I am out here to make money, not sight-see. Do this for more than 5 years and every road looks the same.

 

Oh yes I forgot about Seattle during rush hour. They have about five lanes and all of them are backed up going uphill in the rain.