{"id":14678,"date":"2024-10-03T23:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/north-carolina-dot-tells-truckers-to-keep-off-secondary-roads\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:53:40","slug":"north-carolina-dot-tells-truckers-to-keep-off-secondary-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/north-carolina-dot-tells-truckers-to-keep-off-secondary-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina DOT tells truckers to keep off secondary roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NCDOT?__cft__[0]=AZXG0szdu5kXxWFexEqmh9vFR1EagerAYU2FqvpfoAOb82EIMP2z0ByK98m-WVPolOwILBjyEQzqY4u45AEZhVFITGh_q2CLO-v4x6TJgzfPASzmZRj9pUyMOQhKOxg52sCornCKiD1rsc4OasiOJo1wEWn055heeoQPJKahcFWoUw&amp;__tn__=-UC%2CP-R\"><strong>North Carolina Department of Transportation<\/strong><\/a> (NCDOT) is asking the trucking community to plan routes carefully after Hurricane Helene damaged and closed many of the state\u2019s roadways.<\/p>\n<p>On October 3, NCDOT issued a travel alert to truck drivers due to \u201cmultiple reports of trucks having issues on secondary roads,\u201d particularly in the western portion of the state.<\/p>\n<p>While I-40 and I-26 remain closed in western North Carolina, some truck drivers are running into trouble as they seek alternate routes around storm damaged roads.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking truckers to remain on interstates, U.S. or N.C. routes, unless as otherwise marked, due to dangerous driving conditions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNCDOT%2Fposts%2F937109348450731&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"574\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From NCDOT:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>There are shortages of water, food, gas, power and communications in western North Carolina. Access is limited to local and hurricane response traffic.You cannot get from North Carolina to Tennessee via I-40 or I-26. There may be closed roads not listed on DriveNC.gov as many areas are not able to report at this time.\u00a0 People evacuating the Asheville area can use I-40 east or I-26 east.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Truckers have specifically been warned away from using US 441\/Newfound Gap Road by the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder that commercial vehicles are always prohibited on US 441\/Newfound Gap Road. US 441 between Gatlinburg and Cherokee is a steep two-lane winding road that presents safety concerns for all oversized commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial vehicles will be turned away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vi6ZtG5Lni\">pic.twitter.com\/Vi6ZtG5Lni<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GreatSmokyNPS (@GreatSmokyNPS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreatSmokyNPS\/status\/1841487259024921021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Truck drivers should also avoid US 129 (SR 115) in Blount County, Tennessee (Tail of the Dragon) because\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/news\/2014\/12\/2\/truck-restrictions-on-the-dragon-in-blount-county-limits-for-commercial-veh.html\">commercial vehicles over 30 feet in length are banned from using the roadway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTennesseeHighwayPatrol%2Fposts%2Fpfbid04KeTyCfGafbNAannf43qwsERzTW9SuLtPZdYzR1GpbMrVFWfW3NEFKXAALG4XXbil&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"465\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See the map below for detour and road closure information from NCDOT.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-600x464.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NCDOT_WesternNCClosed_Map-05-1068x825.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/north-carolina-dot-tells-truckers-to-keep-off-secondary-roads\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is asking the trucking community to plan routes carefully after Hurricane Helene damaged and closed many of the state\u2019s roadways. On October 3, NCDOT issued a travel alert to truck drivers due to \u201cmultiple reports of trucks having issues on secondary roads,\u201d particularly in the western portion of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16262,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions\/16262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}