Date:         Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:23:44 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Signs of the Times ( Fryedaye Follies)
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Just at the edge of  Guntersville, Alabama there is a highway with long,
steep grade and  a wide sweeping curve in it. Right at the bottom of the
grade is a right hand turn onto a side street. If a trucker were to have
brake fade on that grade, both he and and the townspeople would be in
big trouble.

To reduce the hazard, the highway department constructed an emergency
truck stopping lane on the right side of the downhill grade. It was made
of sand and soft earth all the way down the  hill to slow runaway
trucks.  It terminated right at the edge of the side street. Right at
the end and dead  center  of the emergency stop lane is a sign that reads:

"NO RIGHT TURN!"

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver