Wheels, wheels and more wheels!

The worst spot is the westbound lane just  past Cascade Locks. The freeway there is elevated and the cold air drains downhill from Eagle Creek, freezing that section first, catching unwary drivers as the temperature goes down. They try to keep it sanded and salted, but they don’t always catch it quickly enough.

I was driving through the Columbia Gorge when it was starting. I stopped on the interstate – and started sliding off the road, sideways. I did manage to make it to the next exit and turn around.

On the drive back to Portland, I watched a pickup start spinning in the opposite direction lanes, right towards me. There was a big crash when it hit…[Read more]

Several years ago, I was drivng through Montana late at night, in January, in the rain. I figured it could freeze at any minute, so I slowed down to about 40 mph. Sure enough, I started to slide off the left side, but somehow got back on the road and straightened out. But that only lasted about 10 seconds and I slid off the right side.…[Read more]

Driving through Boise, Idaho in freezing fog when the freeway came to a sudden halt including lots of semis – and I was very nervous waiting for traffic to catch up, and hopefully not pile up.

Fortunately, no pile up – but there were a LOT of vehicles in the ditch.  I remember watching on pickup approaching from behind at ridiculously high…[Read more]

required to take that first “snow trip” or two with a trainer.

If we get a major conversion to electric and hybrid vehicles, we will impose some kind of road tax on them. The easiest way would be to collect an excise tax on each new vehicle, perhaps $1500 to $2000, which represents the approximate amount of fuel tax a gasoline powered car would pay over ten years. In the mean time, the fuel tax is the way we…[Read more]

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bad idea.

every trumper i know is expecting to get hammered by high gas prices “because biden”

raise taxes on capital gains and wall st trading – not working people

I concur. Detroiters drive real fast over really bad roads. At least, that was my experience last summer. At the time, the highways were so bad they make Cleveland’s, which are seldom free of potholes and bumps, seem pristine.

Unlike Michiganders, northeast Ohioans tend to slow down too much when it rains or snows. Of course, the speed limit is…[Read more]