It can be exciting if you travel around the world, or even your city. You see new things you never saw before, which can open your eyes to a whole unique experience. We all have lists in our heads of places we would love to visit in our lifetime, but is there a place you would never want to set eyes on? A user on Reddit asked, “Truck drivers of the forum, what city or town do you absolutely refuse to stop in?” We have the answers for you, and they might be surprising.
Mission, SD
“Not a truck driver, but I refuse to stop anywhere within 50 miles of Mission, SD, home of the famous Bob Barker. It’s on the reservation and is scary. Saw a guy shoot someone on the street corner in broad daylight while I was at a stop sign. Another time I blew a tire on my trailer while heading out of town. I dragged that trailer with a flat tire for 10 miles before pulling over to fix it. Fortunately, the trailer was empty, with two tires on each side. Would still have thought about it with a full trailer.”
King’s Lynn, Norfolk (UK)
“No human should ever have to visit King’s Lynn in Norfolk. It’s the very shallowest end of the British gene pool. All the local swamp-dwellers come in on Fridays and Saturdays to get drunk and fight. Entire villages have the same surname. Hellish place.”
Middlesbrough (UK)
“For me to go South, I must travel through Middlesbrough. It looks like a desolate, desperate city of dread. Dingy and polluted. It’s renowned for its prostitution and little else.”
Great Yarmouth (UK)
“Great Yarmouth is pretty grim too, or at least it was when I visited about ten years ago. Face after face of truly arresting human oddities. Grim concrete gullies festooned with rubbish and hulking predatory seagulls. Underwhelming fish and chips. Plus, Great Yarmouth sounds like the name of one of Lovecraft’s horrors.”
Camden
“I was 17 years old and accidentally got off the exit for Camden as I was lost. Not 2 minutes later, a group of men surrounded my car. I accelerated and weaved out before being surrounded, where I had to stop. I pulled up alongside an officer who was hesitant to put his window down and asked how to get back on the highway.”
Arizona
“Our truck driver refuses to drive through the state of Arizona. He gets a ticket every time he does. His last ticket was for excessively flappy mud flaps.”
Tucumcari, NM
“I’ve learned that once you head out to any area in North America where there are no major cities, you’re bound to find some towns that fit this description. The I40 from QKC to ABQ is littered with them. Just exit any little town, and you’ll see or experience something that will make you feel as if you time-travelled. Tucumcari, NM, is a great example. Old Route 66 that looks frozen in time.”
Boston
“Route driving, box truck driver here. Anywhere around Boston is a nightmare. That city wasn’t designed for drivers, especially trucks.”
Dryden, Texas
“It looks like the town in The Hills Have Eyes. Everything is frozen in time – cars from the 70s are just lying around abandoned, buildings are falling apart, and the only place in town that looks like someone could live there (they had a light on) is a general store, but it isn’t open. I heard weird stories about that place once we reached Alpine.”
Browning, Montana
“My family and I like to count the stray dogs as we pass through; my personal record is 23.”
Conway
“Not a truck driver, but I can confirm. I live in Conway (about 30 miles North of LR), and any time we go East, we have to take I-40 to Memphis. Just fine going there, but absolute hell-hole coming back to LR. It’s even worse now since they’re doing construction on it, so they’ve reduced much of it to one lane. But on the bright side, they’re doing construction on it.”
Downtown New York
“My dad is currently a truck driver; he was a firefighter for 26 years. He would always request west routes because the larger cities on the east coast are such a tight squeeze and not as accommodating to the large trucks. He told me one day: “I have sent guys into and gone into buildings where they are completely engulfed in flames, my breathing apparatus starting to melt on my face, jacket smoking from the heat, and I have never been as afraid as I am driving around downtown New York in a semi-truck.” Always made me chuckle.”
Brampton, Ontario (Canada)
“The worst drivers in Canada. There is so much insurance fraud that Bramponians pay the highest auto insurance premiums in North America.”
Pueblo, Colorado
“Pueblo, Colorado is awful. It’s nothing but speed traps and strip malls; the cops target visitors.”
Baltimore
“I drove cross country for a year some time ago. During that year, there were three times someone knocked on my window. However, only in Baltimore did I see them swarming the truck stop lot and broadcasting their services over the CB. I’m sure there are truck stops like that everywhere, but the only one I randomly came across was that one in Baltimore.”
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