Forums > US Touring > Anybody else noticing diminished truck traffic on interstate

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Another sunrise, These bright and crystal moments, Crow flies overhead.

We are around Escalante, Boulder, Bruce  Canyon (Utah) and it is dead!!! The only tourists are frm Europe real happy about the Euro value right now...

We live on the road and have been riding less ourselves, trying to combine it with even food shopping. Fod is up here, it just does not look very good!

 Be well... Ara & Spirit

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Homeless on the road with my buddy Spirit... writing... cooking... pictures... new friends... experiencing this beautiful country... what else can we do? http://www.theoasisofmysoul.com

Yup, the same around Atlanta, Ga. Less and slower traffic. Also, for some time now, it has become obvious that people stretch gas mileage, leaving more drivers stranded (people walking with gas cans in hand along the road...)

While we're on the subject, anybody interested in a '07 Toyota FJ Cruiser...   

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Thomas - I'll worry about assisted living later... IBA# 28109 '07 R1200GS Adventure

I've noticed a dramatic drop in traffic.  On my trip to and from Savannah, GA in late June, there just wasn't much traffic anywhere.  Also noticed the speeds were way down for the most part on all types of roads.  Kinda nice.  Not so scarry on my daily commute to work.

laissez le bon temps rouler, yall.

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jean

Can't say I've seen a decline. Here at the cross-roads ofI-25 and I-80 it looks like the teamsters are working as hard as ever.But I have found the drivers here to be quite considerate, and it'skinda of fun to play in the wash the trucks create.  Justsayin....

Charlie? Did you really mean to say that you'd liketo see more government? More government is better government? Do youreally think adding a layer of government interferenceoversight will improve fuel cost and availablity? Did someone hack youraccount?  Whathappened to the C-man I knew and loved?

Jack

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"There ain't no Devil, there's just God when he's drunk." -- T. Waits

Madhatter said:

 it's kinda of fun to play in the wash the trucks create.  Just sayin....

Better you than me. I'd rather ride through a car wash.

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Die Entropie des Motorrads wird immer groesser. Most roaches are created unintentionally. IBA #27546

Jack,

I'm not saying goverment-owned per se, but rather I'm proposing a legislative-oversight scenario.  Don't confuse a government program funded by tax dollars, with a publically-held (or even privately-held) utility.  The difference is public oversight, rather than public ownership and management.

I still doubt and distrust anything and anybody funded by tax dollars.  All government programs and all government employees are suspect in my eyes.  Trust nothing proposed "for the good of the public", and trust nobody on the public payroll: that attitude in every citizen is absolutely vital.   That's just how I feel.

However I'm sensing that gasoline is becoming equivalent to electric power and potable water and is sure looking like a utility to me, because the so-called competition between the oil companies is a handy little myth isn't it.

I no longer see crude oil and fuel as a commodity.

The only winners in a free-market commodity scenario when competition is actually a myth, are the share holders and the officers of the entities that control and supply the so-called commodity.

The rest of us loose.

How long has it been since any of us have seen one gas station, or a single franchise, lower prices to increase business over it's competitors.  Doesn't happen because we're all trapped by our lifestyles and when the tank's empty, we buy gas.  Screw the price, we need gas.  We have no or very, very little choice.

Gas in the car is a utility, not a commodity, just like the water and electricity running through the meter into our homes and workplaces are utilities.

(Of course bulk electric power is actually bought and sold in a semi-free market scenario that is now tightly controlled by theoretically disinterested commissions.  When bulk electric power was within an essentially free-market economy . . . well, that worked out real well didn't it.  Again, a very few sonsabitches won big time, the rest of us lost.)

C

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Another sunrise, These bright and crystal moments, Crow flies overhead.

C,

I can appreiciate what you are saying.

However:

 ........ all government employees are suspect in my eyes...... and trust nobody on the public payroll: that attitude in every citizen is absolutely vital.   

AS A PROUD CIVIL SERVANT I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK...

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There's only one like you, no way they could have made two - BW

E,

I thought of you when I wrote that.  And I'm sure there are many dedicated, over-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated public servants working for municipal, county, state, and federal jurisdictions.

I was a County Engineer once in my career and most of my work compadres have always been publically-employed engineers.  I'm a public-systems-and-infrastructure guy.  I dig it from the inside, man.

However I firmly believe that it's my patriotic duty to question all authority and to doubt and question every tax dollar spent.  Though actually I don't give a shit about the money.  Within our shores, that's a zero-sum game.

It's the authority-thing that I'm automatically against.

C

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Another sunrise, These bright and crystal moments, Crow flies overhead.

Sorry that I do not do "politics", but I read on a Forum just a few days ago that the gov. is thinking about bringing back the 55mph speed limit...

Wonder how that would go?

 Be well...   Ara & Spirit

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Homeless on the road with my buddy Spirit... writing... cooking... pictures... new friends... experiencing this beautiful country... what else can we do? http://www.theoasisofmysoul.com

Beemerchef said:

I read on a Forum just a few days ago that the gov. is thinking about bringing back the 55mph speed limit...

I've seen some news reports to that effect too.  The roads are so conjested now, I wonder if keeping folks on the road longer to complete their trip would make things better or worse.  I guess we'll have to wait and see.

It seems around here as though the truckers have gotten used to the higher diesel prices and they're back out on I-40 in nearly full force.

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Die Entropie des Motorrads wird immer groesser. Most roaches are created unintentionally. IBA #27546