Arkansas Interstate Highway Question

[shotgunneeley]

Louisiana drivers are the blow-hards who live on 200.
Texas drivers run in packs and gang up on higher ENY planes.
Oklahoma drivers drop multitudes of bombs on highly congested runways from 30k up.
Missouri drivers pay more attention to statistics and scores.
Tennessee drivers try to drop their fuel tanks on enemy players below them.
Mississippi drivers fail to notice they're loaded out with vehicle supplies when trying to capture fields...

We honorable Arkansas drivers always look for the 1 on 1 fight, never ho on first pass, refrain from carpet bombing GV spawns, and always <S> after fights  

[Flench]

 

[earl1937]

I know that some of you guys make your living by driving long-haul trucks.

I am currently on a pleasure trip from Texas through Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and then home.  I'm in Louisvillie today.

Two days ago a strange thing happened.  I crossed the border from Texas into Arkansas and the normal free-for-all road combat in Texas turned into an orderly, cooperative, team oriented, goal directed flow of traffic that I remember from the 60's.

This is a serious question.  What is happening on the interstate in Arkansas?

 

Unless there is something you want to see in Georgia, I would suggest that you by pass it altogether, because of the mess in and around Atlanta! Example, I-285, eastbound from I-75 is 8 lanes of pure madness! I get single finger salutes for doing 75 instead of 105, I guess.
If you really want to avoid Georgia, when you come down through Tennessee, when you get to Choo, Choo town, Chattanooga, take I-24 westbound, then I-59 down in Ala. You get to drive through the famous "ridge cut", (on I-24, inside city limits of Chattanooga), where, if you get to do 25 MPH you are lucky, not to mention I think everyone who applies for a police officer job, if they fail, are placed in Chattanooga! You also get to see all those big Red trucks rolling because "Aunt Lucie" has dropped her "hankie" out the window and we must stop all traffic until it is retrieved. (Guess you can't tell I am PO'd at this nonsense going on about rolling a fire truck every time somebody sneezes!) I appreciate the fact these guys risk their lives day in and out to save people and etc, its just that we have some morons setting policy of rolling the trucks.  Now what did I do with my golf clubs?

[mbailey]

 go east of Worcester, forget it...we call them mass-holes

Beat me to it....... .   When I'm up that way I wish I was driving an M1 Abrams instead of a car. I swear when they get their drivers licenses up there they also get a drink of saki and a rising sun headband

[Getback]

We took 10 or 20 into Texas from Jackson MS and let me tell you Texas is one giant speed trap! The highway never changed much but the speed limit did. It went from 55 to 70. You'd be going 70 and then hit a 55 mph sign with no warning and right there would be the Highway Patrol. Never seen anything like it.

[Flench]

Ratsy , when you come through Mississippi you should hit the Fitz Tunica Casino & Hotel. It's a great place to eat while you are looking over the Mississippi river . I use to deal BJ there . It's the only one out of the bunch that you can see the river . Really nice and if you play the table game's ask for a comp meal and they well give you one . Some times they well even give you a room for the night .
Here is a link .
http://www.fitzgeraldstunica.com/

[MrGeezer]

Arkansas interstates run the gambit from small town people with ZERO drivers ed in the express lane as a rolling roadblock....to two semis doing the same thing....to scattered 4 wheelers wanting to do 90 and an equal number wanting do do 45.  On I-30, Texas 4 wheelers feel compelled to drive in the express lane -- even in the absence of any vehicles in the travel lane, and they aren't fond of getting out of the way.  On I-40 it's far worse.  From the river to Little Rock there is almost always eterna-destruction/eterna-construction cycles and you can't tell the difference.   55 North from Memphis is about the best as far as courtesy and defensive driving.  From Little Rock to Ft. Smith it's only truckers that side-by-side that slow things down.

Keep in mind that in Arkansas there is NO LAW requiring high school kids and/or new drivers to take drivers ed.  It's not taught in schools and kids either learn with an adult or go to Driving School (which costs money) which no one does.  If you pass the written and can turn on a vehicle and drive around the DMV parking lot without taking out a mailbox, dumpster, or gaggle of little old ladies -- you get your license.

[skorpx1]

Keep in mind that in Arkansas there is NO LAW requiring high school kids and/or new drivers to take drivers ed.  It's not taught in schools and kids either learn with an adult or go to Driving School (which costs money) which no one does.  If you pass the written and can turn on a vehicle and drive around the DMV parking lot without taking out a mailbox, dumpster, or gaggle of little old ladies -- you get your license.

That last part is sadly true. My uncle drove to the DMV in his pickup, took the road test, got his license and drove away, less than 15 minutes and you can get a license in the great state of Arkansas. 

[Flench]

55 out of Memphis is being rebuilt . I live 60 mile's south and went up their today . Crew's working on it all the way their . One lane mostly . Not to bad but you have to drop your speed to 60 and don't go over it . The HP is giving ticket's big time in those work areas and you have to pay double what the ticket is .

[ghi]

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I know that some of you guys make your living by driving long-haul trucks.


 
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Yes, and Texas is getting scary;  I took this photo   a couple of hours ago along I-30, east of Dallas but the deaths numbers are posted everywhere , in Texas, Missouri, Illinois,...
Powerfull, makes you think;  I was listening the news this evening ,they reported 2300 deaths caused by Ebola outbreak in Africa;. Hmm, the roads kill more in a single state; I'm just thinking how many of this are victims of wireless communication?!  

[Ratsy]

Here's my theory.

The interstates in Texas (and elsewhere) have a single speed limit for trucks and cars.  In Texas, there used to be a speed limit for trucks and a speed limit (5mph faster) for cars.  As a result, today the overall flow of traffic, cars and trucks, is usually 5 mph over with trucks and cars competing for the 'passing lanes'.

In Arkansas (all along I-40) the truckers observed a 65mph speed limit and were obviously cooperating with each other and with car traffic.  It reminded me of the Autobahns in Germany, with one exception - there's a speed limit for cars in Arkansas.  The Arkansas troopers were ruthless with cars speeding in the passing lane.  From Texarkana to Memphis, I never saw a truck pulled by a trooper.  The car drivers were getting the tickets.

This might be a good theory or I might have been in Arkansas on a day of moon-madness, but it was a very relaxing trip through the state.  When we hit Tennessee...well...