I-20 Through Shreveport: Louisiana's Most Punishing Freight Corridor

Bridges, brutal pavement, and an infrastructure deficit that truckers say makes every run feel like a carnival ride

Interstate 20 enters Louisiana from Texas at the Shreveport–Bossier City metro and continues east through the Red River floodplain to Monroe before eventually reaching Mississippi. For truckers who run east-west freight across the South, this corridor is a consistent fixture in conversations about the worst road surfaces in the country — and it earns that reputation not through dramatic mountain hazards or blizzard conditions, but through something more mundane and perhaps more insidious: infrastructure that has simply not kept pace with the demands placed on it.

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