Until last year, I traveled southbound on RT 23 in NJ every day. About 16 miles of it then on to Interstate 287.
The quarries were up in the mountains where I lived, and the tri-axle dump trucks hauled gravel and such down to the "metroplex" of Bergen and Essex counties.
There are fleets of these trucks, in snow, ice and heavy rain, almost always exceeding the speed limit, in poorly maintained rattletraps.
Once every few years, one of them would come into my town down Breakneck road, trying to avoid police. This is a 27 degree in places 2 mile downgrade vertical drop of about 850 feet. One of them even managed to make the corner at the bottom of the hill and only took out half a dozen vehicles with no fatalities.
Seeing a dump truck on with a courteous driver here in Florida warms my cynical bones.
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