hard braking

They drive like this in Germany. Everybody keep a gap and in slow traffic you never have to stop. Only the distance betwen cars decreases from time to time.
This is a great, save and comfortable.
I do the same and when Im in a center line they jump into my gap from both sides at once and may hit each other. I enjoy whatching this

 

About 10 years ago I listened to an interview with a Phd in fluid dynamics, who became fascinated with traffic. He talked about this technique of keeping a pace steady enough to never have to use the brakes, slowing by simply laying off the accelerator. If it is stop and go traffic you simply judge the speed you need to go to arrive where the traffic is stopped in sync with their acceleration as they "go".

By letting the "slinky" effect of stop and go traffic do its thing ahead of you, and keeping a steady pace, he claimed that an individual or very few individuals driving in this manner can defeat stop and go traffic. S&G is the bane of traffic engineers and the major cause for congestion. I've tried this technique in my car since listening to that interview and I have to say that after a while I notice that not only are the cars behind me flowing along nicely, often the cars in the lanes to either side will start jiving with the flow and pretty soon there isn't any S&G happening behind me.

 

This is my biggest gripe about truck drivers. I don't care if there is a fourwheeler behind me, when I pass I give the truck/car that I am passing ample room before I move back over, and if they get impatient and pass me on the right, so be it, its no skin off my back.

 

lepton, you've come a long way from the first posts i read of yours, good job!!! it so much more efficant laying back and floating through traffic, than playing the stop and go game that fourwheelers do. i do the same thing try to match the speed that traffics actually moving and lay back with a buffer zone in front of me and just float trough it all. i also will use a higher gear to keep my rpms down while i roll along which greatly increases my mpg . imagine that getting great mpg in stop and go traffic. that is so confusing to alot of the cowboys i know. happy trails

 

i see this alot because i use the center lane alot . i call it the safe lane , faster traffic on the left and merging traffic on the right and i float in the middle with my cruise set unaffected by the turmoil. but every now and then they try to collide in front of me, just trying to screw up my utopia. happy trails

 

Yeah, tailgating is a driving style and habit, very bad one. Easy to get into accidents, stressful, and not fuel efficient.

Ok, so you got an appointment, nothing you or dispatch can do about the traffic except communicate. In the long run, you'll regret tailgating. Just not worth it.

A lot less stressful with plenty of space for reaction time.

Now for people that cut you off, then slam on the breaks to teach you a less about going slow, yeah nothing you can do about it. Oh, nobody would ever do that? Yeah... thats why I run a dash cam now, but thats another topic

 

After reading all this crap about Qualcomm monitoring hard brakes is the Qualcomm set up the same as the computer on the truck to read hard brakes? I'm unaware of the pressure required of enter a hard brake in a truck don't really understand how its set up or how it works most I usually ever get up to is about 30lbs and that's usually coming down a hill heavy. Over the year I've been driving I've hit 60psi 3 times. Once was to get stopped at a bad intersection when the light changed, 2nd time car came around me and didn't realize the jeep in front of her didn't have brake lights, or turn signals, she slammed on her brakes about 1.5 after coming around me and it was 70lbs on the pedal because some idiot in a hurry decided to pass me on the shoulder, 3rd time car come up over a hill in my lane when I was empty left 40ft of rubber on the highway. I'm sure I have more than that in my truck from dumping homeny, rock, and ddg out of a hopper on the ground when its pull forward and slam on the brakes but seriously why don't they tie it into the trucks system and use a true hard braking situation? I realize most safety directors have never even seen the inside of a truck let alone driven one but that would seem like a better solution here. Would it not?:smt102:smt102

 

i believe the quallcoms and peoplenets and other systems like thease get all the info off the trucks computer. they collect all the info and send reports back to the company who then compiles the data. we get monthly speed reports that tell us if we been good boys or not. were allowed to go 10% over the speed limit before it tags us, which isnt bad at highway speeds but i keep getting busted for going 33mph in a 30mph zone, usally as im approaching a small town. happy trails

 

Ive been doing the same thing,I've been studying things I can do to improve mpg and like you I've gained an extra 1mpg in Big City traffic. And just taking your foot off the accelerator helps alot. This is the least expensive way to gain mpg's,it's a great start.

 

Quality Carrier trucks send an alert when 65 mph is exceeded , even in 70 mph zones .