Good Riddance, Texas!!!!

Well....driving in TX is great......now......but for us old timers, when TX speed limit was 55, we HATED IT. it was like you would never get across that danged state. And of course every little town had a Barney Phiffe waitin' for ya behind a bush. They knew that truckers were easy meat for the speeding ticket carnivore. I'm sure theres others here who remember TX at 55 miles per hour....

Only time I get to go to TX is to our Irving yard which is a postage stamp:( The roads round there with construction are so tiny! And I always get a ld going to NM straight up 287 which has no cell service and few places to stop but rather peaceful. Well except last time when the 18 wheeler hit me.

TEXAS is a great Country to drive in! I feel sorry for you folk who have to drive in the USA. Come on over to Texas and drive!!!!!!!

Smile!!!

Whahoooooooooooooooooooo!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!!

How 'But Them Cow-BOYS!!!?!?!???

This is their year!

(We thought the Spurs were going to pull it out of the hat, oh well. We still have to Rangers to go GET 'EM AND GO FOR THE WORLD SERIES. YEEEEHAAAAAWWWWWW 2013!!!!!!!!

-Dave

Brett nailed it. I will take Tx all day compared to NJ or N or the belt way around DC and Baltimore. We run down to Laredo every so often, and while I dont care that much for sitting down there in the heat, I love the country. We took a load out of there up to Salt Lake, and drove up through the big bend area. That was beautiful country, and varied from desert to an area in a river valley that was lush, green and full of pecan groves. We drove right by Langtry, where if you remember the old Paul Newman movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, well thats where the judge hung outlaws. Great trip. The only thing is, I would hate to break down out there. There were times where I was the only vehicle on the road in the middle of nowhere, and more than one small town was basically boarded up ghost towns.

Of course, the OP is probably joking a bit, but I run Texas Regional and find it pretty darn good trucking most of the time (exception is the road construction underway across most of North side of the whole DFW Metroplex). The roads, for the most part, are in good shape and, like Brett said, DOT pretty much leaves us alone. Admittedly, I don't have much to compare it with, but I have driven in OK, MO, IL, IN, WI, KY, TN, LA, AR, AL, MS, and FL so far. Laredo to Dallas is a pretty nice gig.

It was half a jest. I do like going there and holy speeding KW, Batman! Every stinkin' road is 70mph!!! LOL! I have never driven the East coast and don't feel like I'm missing out. I dig the midwest, thank you very much. MO and AR are fun, too. Except I-40 lately.