Rt 376 at Red Oaks Mill: Semitrailer Squeeze Play

We’re southbound on NYS Rt 376, approaching the Wappinger Creek bridge at mile marker 1102, avoiding the overgrowth coming through the guide rail:

Avoiding the pothole growing across the right wheel track:

Normally, I ride to the left of that pothole, down the middle of the lane, so it’s easier to avoid the next section of overgrowth through the guide rail:

This time, we’re as far to the right as we can get, because we’re being overtaken by a semitrailer trash hauler:

Which is proceeding as far to the left as the driver can possibly squeeze it:

Half a lane is more than we sometimes get:

Away he goes:

We always try to be friendly, because we’re sure to meet again some day:

Mary says he waved back, so it’s all good.

Elapsed time: about twelve seconds.

For whatever it’s worth, eight years ago, NYS DOT Region 8 South Dutchess Residency did a much better job of clearing the overgrowth along Rt 376:

That was then, this is now.