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<blockquote data-quote="RockHales" data-source="post: 670017" data-attributes="member: 2020"><p>In the aftermath of Daytona Truck Meet 2017, the area found a special event it didn't want.</p><p></p><p>Last weekend, my wife and I took a wrong turn.</p><p></p><p>When you've been driving the same way to the ballpark for years, it's easy to fall into automatic behavior.</p><p></p><p>Your conscious mind knows the Orange Avenue Bridge is being torn down and a new bridge won't open until 2019. But the driving brain is something more primitive. More automatic in its responses. It falls into old routes without a driver realizing it.</p><p></p><p>The wrong turn landed us into a stunning, Spring Break 1989–style traffic jam.</p><p></p><p>A solid wall of idling vehicles stretching for miles. A motionless line of vehicles dominated by pickup trucks: six-wheeled dualies, monster trucks and mudding trucks. Trucks with spirelike, smoke-belching gleaming exhausts. Towering trucks with exposed shock absorbers and custom paint jobs. Trucks that need ladders to climb into.</p><p></p><p>An impressive sight. And we had lots of time to take it in.</p><p></p><p>From International Speedway Boulevard south to Dunlawton Avenue, there was no way off the island that didn't involve a lot of parking and waiting. Atlantic Avenue was solid for miles, too.</p><p></p><p>Unlike Bike Week and close-of-the-century Spring Breaks, the 2017 Daytona Truck Meet was a surprise. Local people and beachgoers traveling in for the day didn't suspect they needed to avoid the central beach area. This led to a lot of upset people.</p><p></p><p>The big-truck crowd was not a genteel group. It was a Spring Break '89ish group.</p><p></p><p>There were a lot of complaints to police about people urinating on yards and off truck beds, stunt-driving on the beach and on side roads, racing on residential streets, throwing trash around, and general road-rager driving. <a href="http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170722/lane-after-last-weekend-daytona-doesnt-want-to-keep-on-truckin" target="_blank">http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170722/lane-after-last-weekend-daytona-doesnt-want-to-keep-on-truckin</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RockHales, post: 670017, member: 2020"] In the aftermath of Daytona Truck Meet 2017, the area found a special event it didn’t want. Last weekend, my wife and I took a wrong turn. When you’ve been driving the same way to the ballpark for years, it’s easy to fall into automatic behavior. Your conscious mind knows the Orange Avenue Bridge is being torn down and a new bridge won’t open until 2019. But the driving brain is something more primitive. More automatic in its responses. It falls into old routes without a driver realizing it. The wrong turn landed us into a stunning, Spring Break 1989–style traffic jam. A solid wall of idling vehicles stretching for miles. A motionless line of vehicles dominated by pickup trucks: six-wheeled dualies, monster trucks and mudding trucks. Trucks with spirelike, smoke-belching gleaming exhausts. Towering trucks with exposed shock absorbers and custom paint jobs. Trucks that need ladders to climb into. An impressive sight. And we had lots of time to take it in. From International Speedway Boulevard south to Dunlawton Avenue, there was no way off the island that didn’t involve a lot of parking and waiting. Atlantic Avenue was solid for miles, too. Unlike Bike Week and close-of-the-century Spring Breaks, the 2017 Daytona Truck Meet was a surprise. Local people and beachgoers traveling in for the day didn’t suspect they needed to avoid the central beach area. This led to a lot of upset people. The big-truck crowd was not a genteel group. It was a Spring Break ’89ish group. There were a lot of complaints to police about people urinating on yards and off truck beds, stunt-driving on the beach and on side roads, racing on residential streets, throwing trash around, and general road-rager driving. [url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170722/lane-after-last-weekend-daytona-doesnt-want-to-keep-on-truckin]http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170722/lane-after-last-weekend-daytona-doesnt-want-to-keep-on-truckin[/url] [/QUOTE]
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