Extreme weather creates future potholes. Compounding this is how roads in the South might suffer more because the asphalt formulations are made for heat. The Christmas week arctic blast – bomb cyclone Elliott, as it was called – across the entire midsection and East Coast of the US played havoc on transportation in many ways. Flight cancellations and advisories to stay off the roads were among them. But the deep…
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The top ten states, starting with the worst potholed roads, are: Michigan, Indiana, Rhode Island, Washington state, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and New York.
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It’s pothole repair season, from coast to coast and road crevasse to street pit. And lest anyone think their city, county, or state is more afflicted than any other, we provide for you a snapshot of what asphalt looks like in the spring of 2022: “This year’s pothole season one of the worst in recent memory,” reports TBNewsWatch.com. Owing to “a hard winter on our roads with the continual freeze-thaw,”…
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A heavy body, long travel suspension, and wide sidewall tires hold up best to bumps and dips in the road. Big truck, small sidewalls Where it comes to potholes and pothole-induced damages to vehicles, we generally consider the pothole to be the problem that needs fixing. Ultimately, eliminating potholes will benefit all users of the roads, from the smallest Fiat to the largest 18-wheel semi-truck. But due to the ubiquity…
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It’s that time of year, that month that is the dividing line between winter and spring, when hope springs eternal but car shocks might not. March is the month when temperatures fluctuate above and below the freezing mark (32ºF). Of course, the further south one goes that is more above freezing than below, but the fact remains that those oscillations are what matters most. Because simple water, in its expansions…
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