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CobbWebb71 said:
So something has to happen with the Knoxville interstate system.
30 years ago it was feasible to have truck scales but it is no longer safe.
The Lovell rd and Campbell Station exits are horrible and don’t even get me started on the split and our outdated 2 lane interstate connecting Knoxville to Chattanooga and Nashville!
Driving from downtown Knoxville to Niota every afternoon is like a damn NASCAR race!
Traffic will go from 70 mph to a dead stop, numerous times from downtown to the split and then after the split, one lane is running 90 mph while the other is at 60.
It’s horrible!
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CobbWebb71 said:
So something has to happen with the Knoxville interstate system.
30 years ago it was feasible to have truck scales but it is no longer safe.
The Lovell rd and Campbell Station exits are horrible and don’t even get me started on the split and our outdated 2 lane interstate connecting Knoxville to Chattanooga and Nashville!
Driving from downtown Knoxville to Niota every afternoon is like a damn NASCAR race!
Traffic will go from 70 mph to a dead stop, numerous times from downtown to the split and then after the split, one lane is running 90 mph while the other is at 60.
It’s horrible!
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A little background. I am in the insurance claim business and primarily focus on commercial truck losses.

I used to stand up for truck drivers as I knew most of the accidents are caused by private autos and their drivers doing insane stuff.

The last few years, this statement remains still largely accurate, BUT- there's a flood new truck drivers (a ton being foreign born) that are not helping the situation and are causing some serious accidents and no amount of new lanes or roads are going to fix this situation

I am not sure what happened in this accident. I don't think Mr. Rucker was killed by a tractor-trailer. It sounds like he was hit from behind by one of the extra-large pickups that we see zooming around local roads at high rates of speeds by "compensating" male drivers. In that area of interstate, a lot of these testosterones filled midgets violently race down the road, making unsafe lane changes to save 1 second of travel time.

I guess there's a chance this was a normal 1-ton pickup driven by a contractor, but I suspect it was an ******* looking over his left shoulder to make a fast lane change more than he was looking ahead.
 
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