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Old 08.29.2007
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Universal commercial driving laws?
I honestly think the speed limits and hos, All commercial laws should not be changed by individual states but be made nationwide by fedral govt. and left alone. There are always going to be accidents.

These states changing speeds to slow truckers down is just foolish. And these hours of service changes are just political B.S. Make the laws and leave them alone already!
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i understand your point, but here is part of the reason, every state is diffrent, some you have to go slow for safty like ca, you don't want to take the hills too fast, but that should mean that the 4 wheelers go the same speed, as a whole the trucking industry has less accadents than the 4 wheelers, and yes that is looking at the average of how many cars are out there and how many trucks are out there. some states put those rules into effect because of "super truckers" but it just hurts the rest of us
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We had a federal speed limit of 55mph when Jimmy Carter was president. Want to go back? I'd prefer 60mph for trucks 65mph for cars and no tolerance enforcement with $100 fine for every mile per hour over the speed limit. I would not have a speeding fine go on the driving record though, unless 10 mph over or more. Use the money for roads and bridges.
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I think that CDL's should be nationwide. Standardize the testing and let the states administer the CDL testing but make it a nationwide license so it doesn't matter where you go to school, renew your license, etc.
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i understand your point, but here is part of the reason, every state is diffrent, some you have to go slow for safty like ca, you don't want to take the hills too fast, but that should mean that the 4 wheelers go the same speed, as a whole the trucking industry has less accadents than the 4 wheelers, and yes that is looking at the average of how many cars are out there and how many trucks are out there. some states put those rules into effect because of "super truckers" but it just hurts the rest of us



CA does not do it for safety. They do it for revenue, plain and simple.



There are plenty of places where 75 is not safe to drive. There are also plenty of places where baring unsafe weather conditions it is safe to drive 75. I don't want the feds making some arbitrary rule from DC on what the country wide limit is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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