The area is already heavily patrolled.
Trail of the Dragon news Dec 2011 (Trucks banned on the NC Side)!
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The area is already heavily patrolled.
Chris79761TX
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Well in the 2nd video the name on the truck and trailer says alot SWIFT has the WORST safety record with the Federal Motor carrier safety admin. Average about 3 fatality accidents a day. Swift is a company that just wants a warm body in a cold seat. They have been known to hire illegal immigrants to drive their trucksin the head office in Phoenix, AZ. The driver who doesn't know better and a fleet manager who doesn't care route these trucks and the driver most likely can't even read a map. He only takes the route his onboard computer tells him to take. If he goes out of route by the computer he gets in trouble. I have driven a truck for over 23 yrs and always knew the Dragon was not a good place for a truck and avoided it.
It doesn't say the speed of the triple when the crash occurred....we all know that, while the truck undoubtedly crossed the yellow line, in all likelyhood the bike was going too fast to avoid it...motorcyclists can blame the trucks all they want, but mostly they want them off the road so THEY can speed...truth is the truth...In my youth I drove a truck...If I had inadvertantly ended up on the Dragon there is NO WAY to turn a big rig around, and there is NO WAY I could not make it thru without crossing the double yellow. I'd be driving at 10 MPH with my emergency blinker's on, and sounding my horn at ever turn, but the chances of someone coming thru a blind curve wide open....
k03gsxr750
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Doesn't it seems like everyone can aleast agree if you must cross US 129 you should do so with at very least an escort vehicle?
Well just this past summer someone posted up killboy pics of a lot of bikes going down. The road was covered in dirt and it was the TDOT's handy work. It was the governor of TN that came up with $11M so T troopers could heavily patrol US129 from the line to the lakes. There's enough going on up there on both sides of the line but at least NC is prohibiting trucks, if you understand what I mean.
Yeah, TDOT did some work on the road (improved embankments, runoffs, etc.; I remember seeing that). That was government work - I was talking about redneck hillbillys that thought throwing gravel out on the road to watch motorcycles crash was yehawwfun. There are plenty on both sides of the state line for sure.
Double check the new law will only be for Big Rigs, in Montana there is a similar ban on the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier National Park and it includes all motor vehicles even personal vehicles towing trailers behind them must be under the maximum posted length and width. Not saying it will be the same for the Dragon but double check how it will be enforced.
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A car/pickup with a trailer can stay in their side of the road and get thru it. They have as much right to go there as bikers do.
Better late than never I suppose............
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mike04busa
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Any vehicle that cannot drive over any road in a safe matter should not be allowed . Even at the posted speed limit when on your bike most of those corner's would def. hide a truck in the middle of your lane too late for you to do something about.
Motorcycles are to the Dragon like bathers are to us here in Virginia Beach. We also have the military but the beach is a big part of the local economy!
sportcustoms71
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about time
I think more families should follow suit and consider the same if a full ban isn't in effect. No one should come around blind turns to see a truck blocking your entire lane, or any of it for that matter. I'm glad NC took the step and hopefully TN will do the same, and soon. All of the photos of the trucks completely blocking the Dragon created so much anxiety for me to even try riding the Dragon. Come around a corner and see that? No thanks...fortunately, I've ridden the Dragon many times now and have yet to even pass a truck, but it only takes once.
With regards to the article above, did you guys see some of the comments? This was a gem: "Why not ban both trucks and motorcycles? The trucks are a danger, but they are few and far between. Motorcycles on the other hand, travel that narrow winding road at unbelievable speeds and put so many others at risk as well as themselves."
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