Northbound traffic comes off I-69 at the Bloomfield/Crane exit Monday afternoon, turning onto U.S. 231. The new section of the interstate to Evansville has been open two weeks, but traffic remains light on the highway. David Snodgress | Herald-Times
SCOTLAND — With the opening of I-69 in Greene County comes a new daily stop for semi truck driver Ed Miller.
Five days a week, he pulls his 2011 Volvo semi into the parking lot at the CountryMark service station on Ind. 231, near the northernmost interstate exchange, to rest up.
Monday morning, he stretched his legs and bought a pack of Winstons, a sausage-egg biscuit and two packages of Little Debbie chocolate-frosted mini doughnuts.
His day begins at 2 a.m. when he leaves Clayton, Ohio, with a load of Caterpillar heavy equipment parts destined for a distribution plant in the southern Indiana town of Washington.
It’s 216 miles each way, and he is spending 30 miles or so on the new stretch of I-69 that opened two weeks ago that stops dead there at the 231 interchange. Miller guesses he is saving 30 minutes each way.
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