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Can I tell the speed of drivers on my dirt road by measuring the washboard effect peak-to-peak?

I live on a gravel road and they only grade it twice a year so washboard becomes a real problem. I think it's the people who speed down the road as if it were paved that is causing the washboard effect. I have had to take one vehicle in for suspension problems and they said the washboard was tearing the car apart.

Is there any way to tell from the peak-to-peak what the speed of the offending drivers is on average?

...or better yet an easy way to get rid of washboard, if I don't own a grader? I could have oiled in the spring but it's expensive and no one else does it so it would only help right in front, but not the whole road.


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Contact your elected officials,  ie  county Commission, Township Road Department, etc. .    I doubt very seriously that vehicle speed is cause of washboard of gravel road, but rather, is from, a lack of road maintenance.    That said, the Department of Transportation (Township, or county will STILL say that vehicle speed is the cause.  

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Contact your elected officials,  ie  county Commission, Township Road Department, etc. .    I doubt very seriously that vehicle speed is cause of washboard of gravel road, but rather, is from, a lack of road maintenance.    That said, the Department of Transportation (Township, or county will STILL say that vehicle speed is the cause.  

Posted 2009-09-02T01:54:49Z

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