Interstate 40 between Little Rock, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee is a roughly 135-mile corridor through the Arkansas River Valley and the Mississippi Delta that most commercial drivers approach with zero concern. The terrain is flat. The alignment is straight. There are no mountain passes, no steep grades, no dramatic features.
It’s that complacency that makes this section so dangerous.
The Southern Ice Problem
Ice storms behave differently in southern states than in northern ones, and the difference matters enormously for commercial drivers.
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