ORoads: US Route 99E Truck (Salem)

Not much is known about US 99E Truck at this time. I'm basing its existence on a 1954 Gousha map of Salem (which is scanned below), as well as a 1953 Gousha map that I saw that doesn't have it. I don't even know if it ran on state maintained highways besides the portions that were cosigned with US-99E and OR-22. It also appears to be the only Truck-bannered highway ever in the state of Oregon. I can only make logical guesses at this point, and those are:

• It did not run on state-maintained highways, except multiplexed portions,
• It only existed between 1954 and 1956, when the Salem Bypass opened, essentially creating a US-99 truck route,
• Based on the above, it may not have been signposted as US-99E Truck in the field, but possibly just "Truck Route,"
• Also based on the above, it may not have ever been mileposted, and
• It may not have been a contiguous route, but rather two sections separated by US-99E.

I intend to fire off an e-mail to ODOT asking them for some information on this unique road. I will post that e-mail and its response here in the future.

1954  •  1963

In 1954, US-99E Truck shows up in a map running along Pine St. and down 12th St. This is the only map I've seen it on. US-99E Truck has been decommissioned by this point, my guess is 7 years earlier in 1956 when the Salem Bypass was finished.

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