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[quote user="Modelcar"] .....I have been traveling I 70 for decades from Richmond east....and I'll say....any...reduction of semi's on that route would be helpful.  Sometimes it's not too bad, but many comparable times it's infested with 18 wheelers and traveling in strings, and one pulls out to pass doing a half MPH more, and one must set, and wait until it is once clear again to move on beyond them.  So, in my opinion, any reduction in the lines of truck traffic is helpful.[/quote]You can thank the safety minded self-insured companies raking in the savings on having casterated... err.. governed rigs.Scrap the draconian schedules and you will find that many drivers will slow down and cruise instead of fighting to be first to the rush hour gridlock.And finally I lay the blame on Governments too cheap and thrifty to build proper 3 and 4 lane freeways and all must elbow each other through 40 year old obselete two laners with split speed limits retired 25 years ago no less.I say build a ternimal.. in Omaha and another in ... Seville and stick everything moving through on a train between those two points. By pass the interstates all together and reduce the Costs, risk by the number of drivers and tractors not needed to handle that traffic.Years ago we had a system in the lab where the first driver and his rig was connected to 10 more behind him or her by way of duplex communicating software using digital Microwaves to carry the signal from master vehicle to all the other slaves in the assigned group. The idea was to have one driver drive allowing the other 9 to sleep or the whole thing running by computer only on dedicated pavement isolated completely from the problems associated with today's drivers and cars on the interstates.Later on we had more horsepower availible and were able to bypass I-70 and other roads completely. Or planned our transit at 3-4 in the morning when no one else was around. The bypassing took the form of using a nearby state's road and a slight variance in routing with a few hundred miles here and there carefully chosen in advance, particularly on both coasts.We used to be able to run around the woods in New Jersey (And not pay a penny in tolls) on the smallest two laner roads imaginable until they put a stop to that practice.
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