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Detour * USA - NorCal truckers keep their cool on CHP's ‘3-hour tour'
Grass Valley,CAL,USA -The Sierra Sun News Service, by David Mirhadi- -16 July 2009: -- With the sun peeking over the crest of the Donner Summit miles away, 18-wheelers line up for a long wait... Trucks brandishing North Carolina, Nevada and Utah plates clatter to a stop along the Highway 20/Interstate 80 offramp, their blaring engine brakes coaxing 600-horsepower rigs to a stop along the steep downhill grade... With trucks lined up 30 deep, Highway Patrol officer, Michael Pugh, guides them down the 56-mile detour along westbound Highway 20 to the terminus of the detour at Bell Road and the westbound interstate in Auburn... The detour makes possible a 12-mile upgrade of the nation's most traveled interstate, which hasn't seen a completely new ribbon of asphalt since Richard Nixon was president... (Photo from Sun News Service, by John Hart - Trucks line up at a CHP checkpoint on the Interstate 80 offramp to Highway 20 before being led on a detour convoy)Labels: Congestion
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