Thanksgiving is just around the corner and this year traffic may prove to be a record breaker. Interstate highway travel can be a real pain with heavy traffic and plenty of short tempers. Here are a few tips to help make your Thanksgiving holiday voyage less stressful: Getting There: The absolute worst time to get on the road is the …
This Independence Day, a record-breaking 44.2 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home, taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways to honor the red, white and blue. With 1.25 million more travelers than last year, 2017 will be marked as the most traveled Independence Day holiday weekend ever. “Combined, strong employment, rising incomes and …
Memorial Day is just around the corner, and that means the unofficial start to summer! As Americans prepare for long-weekend getaways, trips to the beach and family picnics, they’ll also be faced with what’s predicted to be one of the busiest Memorial Day Weekends on record. Relatively low gas prices means the roads will be extra crowded. Here’s our top …
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has signed a bill banning handheld cellphone use while driving in New Hampshire as of July 1, 2015. The bill continues to allow adults to talk on cellphones while driving if they use hands-free phones, devices built into the vehicle or two-way radios. It also bans all cellphone use while driving by minors. The ban …
If your summer vacation plans include a road trip, the last thing you want is to have unexpected car trouble to leave you stranded at the side of the road, ruining all the fun. A pre-trip vehicle check is the best way to be car care aware and ensure that your car is ready to get you to your destination, …
Driving slowly in the fast lane is more than just annoying, it’s also illegal in many states. The left hand lane of an Interstate highway is designated as the passing lane. The right lane in this system is called the travel lane. If there are 3 or more lanes of traffic moving in the same direction the far left lane …
Popular Mechanics magazine has named Interstate 10 in Arizona as the most dangerous road in America. Although Interstate 10 runs the entire width of the U.S., the 150-mile stretch from Phoenix to the California border is particularly dangerous, with this section through lightly populated desert seeing up to 85 deaths in a single year. The entire state death toll in Arizona …
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn.– Popular Mechanics magazine has named Interstate 95 in Fairfield County as one of the 10 most dangerous roads in America. The most dangerous stretch is near Norwalk, according to the post. A total of 10 percent of all of the accidents that occur on Connecticut’s 100-mile stretch of I-95 occurred in the city’s 8-mile section. read the …
The American Automobile Association (AAA) reports that record-level drivers equals record-level delays. 41.4 million …
