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Native Mountain Boy wrote:

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You are so out of touch with reality. I drive locally and there are businesses on every one of those roads that I have HAD to deliver to at one time or another. I can say that one stretch of road that NO truck needs to be on is 64 between Highlands and Franklin. The rest, as much as you may dislike it, are necessary for business deliveries.
74A? Businesses in Gerton like Manual Woodworkers and a couple of motels. We route our Bat Cave and Lake Lure freight through Hendersonville, but guess what? If we have a delivery to Gerton, we have to go UP 74A and, since there is no place to turn around when you are headed UP, then you can't get back DOWN. At that point, there IS no solution but to go forward.
64 W of Brevard? Geez... Lake Toxaway, Sapphire, Cashiers and Highlands. I run that twice a week. It's not that bad.
215? Rosman research station has to have their stuff and so do the tomato packers on the other side of the mountain.
276? From Brevard, no. From Waynesville? Yes. That's one of two options for delivering to the Pisgah Inn. The other is the BR Parkway, which we are permitted to do, but choose to go 276 the majority of the time out of respect for the FRIGGIN' TOURISTS!!!
Trucks wear roads down, but the trucking companies not only pay extra fuel taxes, but they also pay highway use fees and several other fees just to run on those roads, so your argument about not paying more taxes is unjustified. Your problem is that you just don't like trucks. Period. If you or anyone else is traveling through the mountains and you happen upon a curve when a truck is coming around it, just slow down and ease over a little. That precious 10 seconds you lose isn't going to kill you. Or maybe it could if you don't learn to adjust your driving from a flatland setting to our lovely mountain terrain. Trucks are everywhere. You can't avoid it, so educate yourself on how to drive around them. Please visit the following website to learn how to drive safely with trucks on the highways:
http://www.sharetheroadsafely.org/noZone/what...

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Skidoo wrote:

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My assumption is that you are not one of the idiots driving the "big rigs" through 74A from the top of the mountain (Gerton) through Fairview through Asheville.
If you can stay left of center and not damage the road, or what little of a shoulder there is ... more power to you.
If not, then this isn't a road that you should be on to begin with, and I would like to see the SHP up here more to actually cite the idiots who use this road illegally (yea, it's still off limits to 53 foot trucks, per the Governors office) and go left of center.
I am willing to also poke along behind you as you try to navigate the road at 10mph while you are watching your brakes heat up. NO Jake Breaking, though please.
Receivers should suck up the cost, and send their freight by carriers that use smaller trucks. One of the priviledges of doing busines in an area that is as pristine as this one is being able to have good roads for the tourists that they sell their crap to, to travel on.
M2C

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martyb36 wrote:

now for my 2 cents worth yes some road were not meant for large trucks in the mountains but do these people who are against truckdrivers not realize how there food and clothing get to them, by a big truck, I had to quit due to health reason and I sit and listen all day to the 4 wheeler drivers complain, that same one is the one who thinks its cool to pull out in front of usthinking that we can stop do they not realize how long it takes us to stop suddenly even doing the posted speed limit. I know I am rambling here but it irks me that they think that we are the bad drivers wish they had to go have a physical just to keep there drivers license and pass all the test that we have too just to prove that we good enough to drive and handle an 18 wheeler, oh and not all of us are burly nasty people not many are that way anyway just thats what they see on tv I am all of 5"4" little girl who drove a big freightshaker(freightliner to those of you who didn't know what that was like I said my 2 cents worth and as far as the taxpayers dollars paying for the road, I would gladly buy your tags and insurance on your car if you would pay mine I had to renew mine just to keep it going this year and it was $2800.00 just for the tag and thats not insurance. it does not include the fuel tax stamps I have to buy to go through each state, so when you think that we just tear up the roads well by golly we pay more than our fair share to drive on these roads also