Applying single point observances to a broader conclusion is always suspect. Yesterday, I drove past a backup of at very least 7 miles on I-78 and I would estimate that backup as 70% trucks!
The good news---I was going the other way
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis