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ATA now supports longer and/or heavier trucks

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith 4-48 footers? Oh give me a break! A standard semi-trailer rig can barely get onto a rush hour freeway now, try it with multi-trailers around 200' and see what kind of reaction other drivers give it, he'll either be trapped on the on-ramp by unyeilding traffic or will cause a 20 car pile up. While some sort of aurgument for this might be tried for lond distance routes where they are driving interstate hwys from urban fring terminal to urban fring terminal with no internal city driving, this will NEVER work where theres any kind of traffic where the more congested traffic realities exist. It would create massive congestion in already bad rush hour traffic with multi-trailer blocked on-ramps and roadway interesections, some streets aren't 200' long. Think about trying to manuever something like this thru an urban freeway interchange in traffic....Bad bad idea. [/quote] Just having a little fun here... Often, I have to take a set of triples up to Stead from Sparks. Sometimes during rush hour. Now its only about 100 feet long, I really haven't had problems merging or getting unto the Freeway. Its also about 6% grade on US 395, which over that section I'm down to about 25 MPH. Once in a while I'll get the finger, but I always smile and wave. Jimmy B
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