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Sharren and I recently drove round trip from our home in SoCal to Clovis, CA for the annual Pontiacs of Central California's car show that used to be held in Madera, CA. It's been a few years since we traveled this hwy. and we weren't looking forward to the bomb-cratered, lumpy road surface or competing for the left lane with the large volume of big rigs that frequent this major north-south artery . We were pleasantly surprised to find a much improved surface due to a lot of new concrete and obvious surface grinding in many of the formerly high spots . Additionally, the traffic was almost bearable during our midday northbound trip, but heavy and raining when coming home late Saturday afternoon as a large storm entered our region .