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Big rigs wrecking and constantly causing I-12 to close
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:43 pm
This has become a weekly occurrence, maybe someone at the state transportation department can start working on solutions
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Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:45 pm to PaintCompany
I really don’t know what it is about I-12 but it’s the absolute worst stretch of interstate I’ve driven on in the country
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:50 pm to upgrayedd
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I really don’t know what it is about I-12 but it’s the absolute worst stretch of interstate I’ve driven on in the country
I drive from Ponchatoula to Slidell 4 days a week and I can tell you what the issue is. People driving like maniacs weaving in and out of traffic.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:54 pm to Ponchy Tiger
There’s also some treacherous on and off ramps
Factor in we’re not the best drivers as a whole to start with, then add in a big sprinkle of distracted driving….boom.
Literally.
Factor in we’re not the best drivers as a whole to start with, then add in a big sprinkle of distracted driving….boom.
Literally.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:59 pm to PaintCompany
In order to keep costs down many trucking companies have hired Dei level drivers. As with other industries this has consequences.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:05 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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I drive from Ponchatoula to Slidell 4 days a week and I can tell you what the issue is. People driving like maniacs weaving in and out of traffic.
I find this true of I-10 basically anywhere from Pensacola to Houston. It's no surprise how bad muy car insurance was when we lived in Louisiana. Every year I drive basically the length of I-10 at Christmas to visit family and it is amazing how much better the drivers are west of Houston and especially San Antonio.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:07 pm to jnethe1
Add a concrete barrier between right lane and middle/left lane and designate big rigs travel in right lane and then we identify the exact problem.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:09 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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I drive from Ponchatoula to Slidell 4 days a week and I can tell you what the issue is. People driving like maniacs weaving in and out of traffic
Whole lot of dudes with white sunglasses and loud pipes running late to their jobs in that stretch. If you aren't doing 90 you're going too slow
This post was edited on 7/27/25 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:09 pm to PaintCompany
I drove back and forth to BR from Hammond every workday for 20 years. I’m shocked the law of averages didn’t catch up to me and I made it out alive. There is no question that that drive was the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done and I did it twice a day.
never again…if I have to go that way I take 190 now, and give myself plenty of time
never again…if I have to go that way I take 190 now, and give myself plenty of time
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:11 pm to upgrayedd
I didn’t realize it was that hard to drive on a straight road.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:17 pm to Ingeniero
Several decades ago I would have nominated a long segment of I-10 in West Texas for having a worse drive, not because of accidents, but because the road was in terrible shape and had been for such a long time.
I was bouncing along in a Toyota (a friend's car I was driving to Arizona for her) and I noticed that I was the only car using the right or left hand lanes westbound. All the trucks and local cars were driving on the pull over lane on the right. And they knew what they were doing: it was a much smoother drive.
I was bouncing along in a Toyota (a friend's car I was driving to Arizona for her) and I noticed that I was the only car using the right or left hand lanes westbound. All the trucks and local cars were driving on the pull over lane on the right. And they knew what they were doing: it was a much smoother drive.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:40 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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I drive from Ponchatoula to Slidell 4 days a week and I can tell you what the issue is. People driving like maniacs weaving in and out of traffic.
In my experience that’s the result of trucks trying to pass each other at 0.5 miles an hour and people driving 55 in the right lane causing trucks to have to get in the left lane where they clog it up for miles.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:41 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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I drive from Ponchatoula to Slidell 4 days a week and I can tell you what the issue is. People driving like maniacs weaving in and out of traffic.
Country boys in trucks and Nissan Altima types of people. Have a lot in common.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:41 pm to PaintCompany
Call me crazy. But what if rigs only drove from evening to morning hours ?
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:43 pm to LoneStar23
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Country boys in trucks and Nissan Altima types of people.
Agree
Weird how there is a lot of cross over between these groups as far as driving habits go
Plant baws late for work drive like fricking maniacs
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:49 pm to PaintCompany
Aurora is running Autonomous Commercial trucks on I-45, between Dallas and Houston.
Would it work on I-12? Aurora Commercial Transportation
Would it work on I-12? Aurora Commercial Transportation
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:52 pm to upgrayedd
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In my experience that’s the result of trucks trying to pass each other at 0.5 miles an hour and people driving 55 in the right lane causing trucks to have to get in the left lane where they clog it up for miles.
Yep. If the left lane was cleared this wouldn’t be an issue.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:55 pm to PaintCompany
Big rig drivers must sweat bullets while driving in Louisiana, where personal injury attorneys have created a winning-the-lottery litigious atmosphere to enrich themselves.
Has to be a factor!
IYKYK
Has to be a factor!
IYKYK
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:58 pm to PaintCompany
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maybe someone at the state transportation department can start working on solutions
Or, maybe someone with the State Troopers could start enforcing speed limits and aggressive driving that causes the wrecks. Not sure what else would help make a perfectly flat, straight road safer.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 4:24 pm to PaintCompany
Last 2 Saturdays I drove on I-12 I saw more of them than usual. A lot. I can’t imagine what a weekday would look like.
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