What is the Max speed limit you can go over on an interstate?

I know you was. Ive loved this thread. Its good to cut loose now and then!LOL

 

Well its bedtime. It has certainly been a Pleasure my fellow comrads at arms (completely on my part). You truck em safe out there

 

Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony. Therefore, I cannot answer your question.

Driving a truck above the speed limit is not something you should be interested in doing anyway. Your fuel mileage goes down, plus the added wear on the tires makes it dangerous. I am fairly certain that you are not hauling anything that is worth losing your life over. I know the guys that deliver the Penthouse Letters.

 

Talk about BS. Exactly what does anything that happened in the 70's have to do with today. The reasons speeds where reduced then have nothing whatsoever to do with why they are being reduced now. The people deciding why to reduce them today were usually just in grade school in the 70's. If they were even that old then.

 

Really depends on where you're at. I got plenty of tickets going 10 over. I got one going 20 over in California going down Cajon Pass and they tried to charge me with reckless driving. My lawyer got it reduced to coasting and it wasn't even a point! Lucked out on that one! Once I got my trusty bird dog I stopped getting tickets.

 

Problem with that is if the cops running LIDAR on hold he can put his cross hairs on you and by the time he let's it rip most detectors can't react and block it (most can't jam the newer LIDAR anyways) and there you are. Most with jamming capability arent constantly doing it as that would make you a moving beacon for them to lock onto. I got a lot of cops in my family and I've played with all their toys. Also tested a lot of detectors that "claim" to jam.

 

I work in Cali. Drive about 460-500 miles daily speed limit is 55mph I drive between 59 and 61 if I rush. Been clocked hundreds of times never been messed with... yet a friend of mine got a ticket for doing 68 in a 65. So all depends on the CHPs mood that day.

U know what they say a posted speed limit is just a suggestion lol.

There is no stupid question I'm.glad you asked but yeah there is no "how fast can I go over" the speed limit is posted on the sign. If you decided to go over 1mph you're speeding.

 

There's a certain logic to operating in a manner that permits knowing you were doing everything right up to the instant before everything went wrong.

That's one difference in professional driving and professional steering; remaining prepared for the worst thing that can happen.

The subconscious human desire to conform to what everyone else is doing, to not be the different one of a group, must be beat back with a tire iron.

If you drive like everyone else, you're doing it wrong.

 

I think a lot of posters are missing the fact that OP works for Western Express. They're not exactly capable of speeding a lot of places, unless you count secondary roads and construction zones. If you drive 10 over past me through a construction zone, I'll be pretty well inclined to forward the relevant footage from my dash cam to your safety department.

Focusing on how many miles per hour over the limit you can go is a pointless exercise, because every cop running radar is different. Some won't bat an eye until 11-12 over, while others will jump all over you for 2 over and carry on like the world is ending.

 

Radar detectors and radar have been a point of discussion for the last 30 plus years, This unit is new and guaranteed to prevent you from getting a ticket. This model will see them from behind, so many story's of I did this speed and I didn't get a ticket or I did this speed down hill ad nauseum.
It is illegal to have a radar detector in a commercial vehicle today and who really needs a detector beside the outlaw?. A toy at best now. I did know a driver that had a Jammer in his truck years ago. He used to sit it on his dash going down the road and when some 4 wheelers would get stupid with their detectors he would hit the on switch. Brake lights galore. He finally burned it up and could not get it repaired. Had a lot of fun with it tho.Trucking was a lot different back then. So unlike today's regulated to death system.Not so much fun today.