[thumbsup-_-]

I did this road in an SUV two years back and the experience is surreal. One noticable different is in how trucks drive this road. On a regular highway, they are calm and easy going but on this road, trucks have the right of way and they don't compromise their right any time.

Regardless, the beauty is like I have never seen before. Skinny dipping in Arctic was bonus on top.

[fooker]

>they don't compromise their right any time.

For good reason.

Braking a heavy truck on a ice road could be a death sentence.

[bmer]

It sounds like it would be very unsafe to drive on a truck-priority road (especially since, as the other comment points out: there's a good reason trucks are given priority)...

Then again, in general, the interstate highway system in the US was scary, when my family used it for a road trip. I left the experience thinking: "I wish there were more train tracks than roads..."

[devilbunny]

> the interstate highway system in the US was scary, when my family used it for a road trip.

Out of curiosity, why? Because trucks are permitted in the left lane?

I won't say that Americans are good drivers, but other than the very busiest routes like I-95 through the Northeast Corridor, I also wouldn't call our interstates "scary", even for someone unaccustomed to driving as much as we do. And in major cities, it's less "scary" than "slow due to traffic". Our speed limits are lower, but ignoring the posted limits and just looking at behavior, the speeds aren't that different.

[steelribbon]

I once did I95 in a NorEasterly winter storm. Blizzard snow all the way down to the Georgia/SC border. I was gingerly picking my way down the highway hoping a tree wouldn’t decide to give up the ghost and fall on us. The truckers whizzed by at a truly alarming speed and they weren’t being calm and easy-going… Neither was I, what with the ice, snow, murderous trees and kamikaze truckers!

[pnut]

Is that a euphemism for an unspoken licence for vehicular homicide?

Would a trucker swerve to avoid a pedestrian, or run them over? Would they ram a stalled vehicle off the road at speed?

Struggling to understand the implications of their entitlement.

[elijaht]

I mean FTA- the conditions seem absolutely treacherous and non-industrial traffic is explicitly warned about the dangers. I would imagine that there are many situations on that route where evasive action would be more dangerous to both parties. Clearly not a situation or “license” that a truck driver would want.

Also not sure there are any pedestrians lol

[jollyllama]

>On a regular highway, they are calm

I don't live anywhere near the Arctic circle and this is not the case.