Photos of My Delaware and Maryland by Trucker Mike.

Photos of My Delaware and Maryland by Trucker Mike

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Delaware: Next to the smallest state of the lower 48, Delaware has a lot going for it: home of Dupont Chemicals, no state sales tax, nice ocean beaches, and an over-all decent place to live and visit. I.95 cuts across the northern part of Delaware, a total of 11 miles. US 13 bisects the state north and south, leading to the Bridge/Tunnel to Norfolk. Many corporations are based in Delaware because of the favorable tax laws there. In contrast, there are also many farms in the state, growing primarily vegetables. This has given rise to several canning and freezing companies in the central and southern parts of the state.


Delaware Memorial Bridge. I-95 crossing Delaware River	Tall plants lining the road, northeast Delaware, close to where I was delivering a cement mixer truck to a contractor.	Entering Delaware on I.95. There are no truck stops on this stretch until a few miles into Maryland.
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Picked this truck up in western New York and delivered it to contractor in northern Delaware.	I.95 crosses northern Delaware and goes northeast to Philadelphia. I.295 goes east to New Jersey.

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Maryland, also a small state, stretches from the Appalachian Mountains in the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east. Where I.81 crosses Maryland, at Hagerstown on the panhandle, the state is only 10 miles wide. I.68 travels the length of the panhandle, and what a road! There is one huge hill (mountain?) after another along with long, winding curves, kind of like Paul Bunyan's roller coaster. Driving on this road with a 40,000 pound plus load is a real pain in the shifter. But, the scenery is terrific with some of the highest elevations east of the Mississippi. Maryland is home to many commercial, financial and high-tech companies in the eastern end of the state. The central part has a range of businesses from printing to electronics to warehousing and distribution. In western Maryland there are lumbering businesses and paper mills as well as farming and ranching.

Mountain valley town near I.68, western Maryland.	Upland farm in western Maryland.	Bridge over Potomac River, US 340, W. VA to MD.

Appalachian ridges from I.68	Approaching I.68 road cut, west-bound. Maryland	Impressive road cut on I.68 in western Maryland.

From Frederick eastward (I.70), Maryland is a country of rolling hills covered with a mix of farm and wood lands. I.70 goes to I.695 and Baltimore and I.270 angles southeast to I.495 and D.C. One route is as bad as the other as far as traffic and congestion are concerned. I have made deliveries into both cities and several of their suburbs and survived, but one must have very good directions to avoid getting trapped. I'm thinking of one delivery to a D.C. suburb, a printing company, where I drove into the outskirts of the town, turned left onto a side street, and left again onto an even smaller street with houses and parked cars on the left and a fence and fields on the right. The street went down a grade to a dead end with the gate to the dock area on the left. I was able to squeeze through the gate and get turned around to back to the dock, but getting back out of the gate took nearly an hour of angling and jockeying. I finally made it by forcing the cab through weeds and shrubs and scraping the fence on the far side of the road.


Towers of the Mormon Temple off I.495, Washington, D.C.	Baltimore Harbor. Some kind of cargo ships.	Freighter in Baltimore harbor.

Marina on the Chesapeake	I.81 angles southwest to northeast, I.68 and I.70 go east -west,	I.95 angles northeasterly from VA, thru DC and Balt., into PA and Philly.

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