Petition to oppose FMCSA speed limiter mandate
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Bret1984, May 5, 2022.
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If I were 100% impartial here and wanted to improve the trucker's behavioral patterns that are compromising the public safety, I'd ban any sort of display on and interactive devices while driving. Including phones, tablets, etc. Distraction is the no.1 cause of accidents done by trucks...watching videos, texting etc...that's what I see all the time. I am not sure how to go about it due to the fact that most ELDs, GDPs are integrated on smart phone and tablets and it would take some advanced technicalities to enforce it but out of all things the Safety zealots might want to address, this is the first one, speed of trucks is one of the last. It could also be enforced different ways, e.g. by an on-board GPS limiting the speed at a given speed zone, provided that it can be overridden by a driver and explained later in their ELD report but I can't stomach the idea that all of a sudden we all must to drive at Swift or Prime speed.Bret1984, God prefers Diesels and Oxbow Thank this. -
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The ATA wants to bring all companies down to their level. Because they can’t keep drivers because their nutted Cascadias suck at 65 on the pedal and they want to treat drivers like crap……
If every truck is speed limited at 65 theirs one less reason for a driver to change companies…..
One way around the rule is set the speed limit at 65 in the ecm and then in the driver reward area of the ecm set the speed limit at 80 or whatever if the driver averages like 3 mpg overall or some such low figure…..
Those of us up by Canada have dealt with this for years….It’s just another rule I will not follow period…….Bret1984, D.Tibbitt, RockinChair and 6 others Thank this. -
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I don’t dispute that speed is probably a factor in many truck accidents, what I’m not buying is that speeding (above the posted limit) is a factor in many of them. Speed limit is 80 across South Dakota and you still see megas wadded up in the ditch.
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