>> reporter: ricardo willis is a delivery driver. he was at the california/oregon border friday morning and rescheduled his deliveries for the day. >> when i got ready to come down and i had to go into san francisco, it would have added a two-hour delay for me to get down to san francisco this afternoon. so now i had to change all my customer plans and deliver tomorrow. >> reporter: this family came all the way from texas to visit the bay area and got stuck right in the middle of the traffic chaos. >> it's impossible to get on and off the highway and this road out here, 780, has become a mess. >> reporter: what he thought was going to be a simple bite out to eat ended up being a major road trip. >> we're going to a restaurant and looked it up and it said an hour and a half to get there and it's a two mile away restaurant because you have to go up and around and around and back down. >> reporter: caltrans says with the closure it's taking 106 nights of work and shrinking them down to four days to do badly needed road repairs. drivers