Roll With The Changes
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I've escorted full size tractor trailers through it. Every once in a while, a tractor trailer driver gets bad info and sees it as a shortcut to get to wherever he/she is going. Most of us locals will get in front of the tractor trailer (there's no place for them to turn around up there once they get on it) and stay a turn or maybe two ahead of them, warning oncoming traffic to stop and get over. You should see the look on some of their faces when they are pulled over because we've waved them down, and all of a sudden, a few seconds later a full size tractor trailer comes around the corner.
Years ago, we did some work out of one of parks below Cheoah Dam (Harrison Ford in The Fugitive). I don't remember the details, but we had to take a tractor trailer down and back up the tail of the dragon a few times. I wasn't the driver, but he said he would rather be on a bike than in the truck.
It is beautiful country around there for sure!