🚛 🚗 The Interstate's Forgotten Code 🚗 🚛

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[MNelson]

My Dad’s a truck driver. It amazed me that he could plan a cross-country road trip without even looking at a map. That sneak had a cheat code the whole time!

[maverickhusky]

My 3 year old has recently become obsesed with all the 'big roads' that we drive on an their names and numbers, thanks for making this video so I can keep up the illusion that dad knows about everything!

[seriatekata]

I like how the DOT or department of transportation just sits in the back of the car with them.

[margaretdrumm]

My dad explained all of this to me when I was learning to drive, and it gave me enough of a basic understanding of Kansas City's geography that if I could only get to a highway I always knew where I was. We used I-70 every day.

[ceffydriver]

I'm so lucky to be living in Australia. All I need to remember is that if I dive in any direction long enough I run the risk of dying in the middle of nowhere.

[SRFriso]

"I already cut so many from the script, you wouldn't believe it..."
Grey, you made a 21-minute video explaining why one particular detail didn't make it into a 9-minute video and gave you sleepless nights for the better part of a year. We believe it.

[MissionaryInMexico]

I drove truck for about 7 years. I learned this code early on by myself without anyone showing me. I memorized where each highway was and how many miles were in each state I also drove in Canada, and memorized those, too. It's been so many years ago I just remember some of it but remember all the interstate numbers and where they are. I miss those days.

[claremurphy]

As someone from Minneapolis who was annoyed simply that 35W was considered the "exit" off I-35 from the South whereas 35E was the continuation, 35W (Minneapolis) and 35E (Saint Paul) were definitely named to not be bypasses. The rivalry is real!

[AndrewKleinWW]

The 35E/35W finally makes sense! This was fun

[Tekking]

As a Pennsylvanian I appreciate the shout out to I-99.

[finneganmanthe]

0:09 Props to you for using the actual constellations there. Attention to detail!

[calebbenedict]

5:50 - I-90 in New York has a “complete set” of auxiliary interstates, there is an I-190 through I-990 in the state.

Also, I-238 was numbered as such because, at the time, I-80 in California also had a “complete set” of auxiliary Interstates and they didn’t want to cause confusion by duplicating numbers within the state, so it was just numbered after the original highway, CA-238.

[LookAtThisGraf]

I think the 805 in San Diego legitimizes the “05 in our hearts” part. It’s an interstate minor, so it has three digits; it starts in an even number, so it diverges from and reconnects to a major; but that major is the 5, so its last two digits have to be “05.”

[iammrbeat]

I'm just amazed that you mentioned Kansas City twice in the same video.

[DoctorTex]

During the course of the video, the time slowly shifts from dusk to night, to dawn to day, and at the end back to dusk.

This implies Grey dragged this person all across the country in a single day.

[carguybikeguy]

Ok. So this video popped into my feed today, on the 18th anniversary of my dad’s passing. Downer of a lead but stay with me.
I grew up spending my summers in a van with my family, going coast to coast & back. Dad had long distance travel by car on his list of must-learn life skills. He taught me as early as I can remember the numbers system. All my siblings learned it as we all were either navigating or piloting the van(s) later in life. We were doing it for vacation like the truckers did. Dad even had a CB in the old Dodge Sportsman to listen in for ‘intel’, naturally.

So thank you for this. It made me laugh & cry a bit. The yootoob algorithm seemed to know when & where to send this.

I copied my entire family. They’ll love it.

[MeMySkirtandI]

As a twin cities resident, I can say with authority that: Yes the E & W designations are there to keep the peace between the fragile egos of the state's largest city, Minneapolis, and the state capital, St. Paul. However, since the exit numbers on 35E remain consistent with the rest of I35s numbers, while 35Ws exits start at 1 and end around 20, its clear that 35W is the bypass.

[Axius]

This seems overly complicated. Here in Australia, we simplify matters by just not having roads at all :P

[JPBevr]

President Eisenhower traveled coast to coast on roads before the interstate. He was concerned about the length of time and difficulty of travel. With the threat of national security, Eisenhower realized there was a dire need to move military equipment from coast to coast more expediently. That was the original intention of the interstate. Commerce and ease of travel for citizens was a second benefit. Where geography and probably other considerations would allow, he wanted 1 out of every 5 miles to be straight. That allowed for numerous possible editors to be used as runways in case all Air Force bases were destroyed.

[joedips]

Fellow Long Islander here. As soon as you explained the even number rule, I was trying to figure out how the LIE got 495 moniker. Fantastic video and I will always remember this when driving on that pothole riddled hell scape.