Just past the truck brake-inspection station on infamous Monteagle Mountain, east-bound I-24 in Tennessee, the long dangerous downgrade begins.

The ideal road, says America’s Road Team Captain Albert Adams, is “an interstate highway on a nice, sunny, 70-degree day with light traffic.”

It’s too bad not every road can be ideal.

Statistically, the most dangerous places to drive are two-lane country roads, but for over-the-road truckers, it’s the curvy, the foggy, the snow-drowned stretches of major interstates where big accidents happen that stick in the memory for years to come.

We asked some of the most talented and experienced drivers in the nation to tell us which roads make even their stomachs tense up and knuckles turn white. These are the roads that inspire truckstop and CB stories – some tall tales and some, regrettably, all too true.

On a storm track
The combination of snow, ice, high winds and heavy traffic on the stretch of I-80 between Laramie, Wyo., and the Utah border makes the road so deadly it has inspired the nickname “Snow Chi Minh Trail,” after the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, less a road than a web of jungle paths the North Vietnamese supplied their armies through during the Vietnam War.