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I would think most of the continental US would have a good deal of trucks. I haven't seen a place in the 48 states where they are lacking. Maybe Rhode Island but still plenty of reasons to deliver.
I would imagine the more rural states without much going for them in the way of agriculture or oilfields would be the ones. If anything, all the truck traffic would be heading to the populated cores where the major chains and larger grocery stores would be. But even with the small gas stations and smaller grocery stores in the tiny towns, you're still going to have 28' pup trailers making deliveries to them.
IMHO, tractor trailers are kind of a hard thing to get away from. Unless you're on a small island, in the middle of an ocean, or even a small island within the Thousand Island chain.
I would imagine the more rural states without much going for them in the way of agriculture or oilfields would be the ones. If anything, all the truck traffic would be heading to the populated cores where the major chains and larger grocery stores would be. But even with the small gas stations and smaller grocery stores in the tiny towns, you're still going to have 28' pup trailers making deliveries to them.
IMHO, tractor trailers are kind of a hard thing to get away from. Unless you're on a small island, in the middle of an ocean, or even a small island within the Thousand Island chain.
Some mostly rural states have an incredible amount of freight traffic (e.g. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, etc.) because major interstates criss-cross those areas (e.g I-80, I-70, I-40, etc.).
Alaska and Hawaii are pretty low, though they also don't have much highway road mileage to begin with. Lots of truck traffic bypasses Delaware seemingly.
Some mostly rural states have an incredible amount of freight traffic (e.g. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, etc.) because major interstates criss-cross those areas (e.g I-80, I-70, I-40, etc.).
I was excluding the freeways because a majority of that traffic never really leaves them. Now if they're some hot-shot, owner-operator, then I could see them taking some random, state highway to bypass a scale or take in some scenery. But if one really wanted to get away from the semis, just pay attention to maps like the one that just got posted in here.
It also helps to check out some trucking related forums when the truckers are talking about hiring trends. Seems like the greater a freight corridor, the higher the amount of varied truck traffic will be rolling through it.
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