What are we looking at there?
Iāve taken some road trips through Iowa back in the day with a Rand McNally map. I discovered a different speed limit.
The speed limit in a base model Toyota Corolla with steel wheels is 95 mph on those back roads. At 105 mph you know thereās minutes till that washey steering and wheels will lead to death. At 100 mph weird stuff happens like you hit a giant bug and a bat a split second after. Then you and your buddy are forced to argue for hours if the bat had it good or bad. So itās a strict 95 mph speed limit.
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I didnāt say that. Just that we donāt have cars! Just tractors.
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Map of gravel roads lol
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Are those roads actually nice gravel, or are they packed dirt?
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Itās a vital part of the agricultural infrastructure. Most are top quality constructed and maintained.
The ones that arent are clearly marked as such, ālevel Bā
Iowa is essentially a giant man-made garden, and people need to be able to reliably access every square foot efficiently with modern farming and transportation equipment at an industrial scale, no matter how remote.
And this stuff only keeps getting bigger and bigger.
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It looks like @RezClone knitted a blankey in the shape of Iowa.
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You knew I was going to ask that question didnāt you?
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I kinda wanted to see if anyone guessed it lol
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I would have guessed it was that fancy irrigation system Iowa employs
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Like obviously everyone has farms. But we have more hogs than ppl. More grain than anywhere else. These are all repetitive short haul trips that occur up to 10 times a day per truck. DAILY en masse @RobDob
At my job, trucks regularly weigh over 100K loaded. 96K you donāt even need a special permit for. But most private haulers have one, its just a small fee.
This is MURDER on the countless miles of pavement, gravel, and culverts and bridges. Hence why ISU is primarily an Engineering school (it ties in with agriculture in so many ways)
Iowa produces more organic waste (poop) than all of California. Cuz of the hogs. They get moved around to supplement and replenish, and taken to slaughter constantly. The hog and chicken barns need feed daily. Lots of it. Its not on pallets. Itās hauled on giant tankers called feed bottles. These are exclusively in rural areas, for obvious reasons.
Then you have the combines, the toolbars, the planters, the chemical tenders, the fuel tenders, the anhydrous transports, the sprayers, of course the feed and grain haulers, the tractors. These get to every acre on these roads. The vast majority of these roads are very robust. County guys maintain these roads thatās all they do year round.
Itās not for people, per se. Itās for bidness!
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Also, in Cali, we donāt poop.
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I know Rosieās beach be turded! 
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South Bay. It floats to Tijuana.
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De-irrigation systems, perhaps!
The good lord gives us all the water we need and then some. Never forget thatā¦
Otherwise, weād be Nebraska! 
Hey man, the offseason is in full swing. Prime time to learn about rainy dirt. 
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In Texas, the speed limit is just there to let you know what the pu**ies are gunna be doing today.
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We recently were on a Tollway which had a speed limit of 85 mph.
Driving in the right lane , and doing 85, we were passed as if we were in park.
Speed limits are suggestions.
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Several years ago I had a Cobra and was ācruisingā about 130mph on SH130 and a guy in a Lotus rolled by me doing every bit of 160+.
Canāt really do it anymore because more people use it and DPS is out there a lot now.
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Compared to the autobahn in Germany, we are all slowpokes.
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SH 130 is where we experience the speeding.
You cannot be in the left lane unless you really want to crank it up. Not for the faint hearted.