I have actually hit Chuckholes around here locally that launched me clear of the seat and pounded my head on the roof of my truck. Because it’s an Old School 3/4 ton 4wd, it rides like an old Buckboard to begin with but sometimes the damn front end comes off the ground.
I’m not even joking.
There are stretches of some roads around here, main thoroughfares, that I won’t even drive on because they are so bad.
We also have some of the highest gas prices in the Continental US because of the Shit Weasel Democrats in Seattle, you would think some of that money would be set aside for road repairs, right?
The local gas price here yesterday on average was $4.79 a gallon.
What is even worse, whoever the assclowns are on the repair crews around here, they literally put down the worst patches I have ever seen in my entire life.
Sometimes they actually make it worse because they will put twenty individual patches down instead of just repaving the bad stretch.
That eventually turns into washboard and defeats the fucking purpose.
The intersections are far and away the worst of all.
I have a 1 ton pickup. If I put 800 pounds in the bed it stops riding like a buckboard where the ride becomes as smooth as my mother’s Caddy.
Have an F250 with overloads.
Rides pretty nice with a couple yards of garden soil or maybe a yard of gravel.
Otherwise?
Need a kidney belt
The wife blew a tire and a front strut on her Camry in a pothole one time. It was on a concrete road and big potholes tend to have real sharp edges,
Had to make several trips to Tennessee back in March. The stretch of I-40 between Jackson and Nashville was so bad that they had signs up every few miles warning about the potholes ahead. I had a semi start to walk sideways into my lane because we hit a stretch of road that was one giant washboard.
I-5 in the Central Valley isn’t even worth driving on and hasn’t been for decades.
Noticed the same shitty road patch repair work here as well. The patch top isn’t nearly matched to surrounding, so you get either a ‘dip’ or a ‘bump’, dealers choice. It is dangerous near school zones, where you are keeping an eye on the road surface rather than slowed – stopped traffic or crossing kids.
All kinds of utility work you didn’t see before is being done. U,S. population rapid growth is causing our limited grid to begin to fail pre-maturely I think. Our city streets are at least 20 years behind the anticipated need and by the time the project is completed, it is behind already.
I love you, man, but you’re an idiot for still living there. 🙂
In Louisiana, they just put up a sign saying
“Substandard Roadway”.
Truth hurts, literally
My idea of a good road, is one the public is afraid to go down.
My F250 is set up for towing; and dear Lord, the roads around here will rattle fillings loose if you don’t pay attention. Now, if I could just get The Queen to not drive it like she stole it, I might be able to pass a gas station once in a while.