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

As, for lack of a better term, "physical" skills increase, they become more mental. We see this evidence in higher-level sports where commentators note errors of basic fundamentals as simple mental errors; the defensive back abandons his lane, the receiver runs the wrong route, the QB misses seeing the wide-open receiver... and at that point it matters not how much experience they might have, how great they might be, or how much they know. And these players have had their behinds coached off, by presumably the best coaches, for years if not decades.

Virtually all professional sports participants have coaches and/or continue to take lessons. Suggesting same to a truck driver can only lead to exhibitions of contempt and derision: "What, you think I don't know what I'm doing? You must be an idiot!"

But, I'm reminded of the grizzled veteran I knew with decades of experience and 0 crashes who got a new truck. I saw him ~a month later and there was hardly a speck of paint left on the front of it. He hadn't a clue, told me it must have been a bad paint job...

No reason we can't agree to disagree, amicably.

 

Non sequiturs. Reaction time does not vary according to velocity. You've fallen back on your begging the question fallacy by continuing to assume the crash and fatality is inevitable. Kinetic energy QUADRUPLES when velocity doubles. Greater velocity leads to greater stopping distance.

Then it appears one of us has become functionally illiterate:

Let us rejoice, we agree!

Taken... but not so much choice anymore. Because they have historically made such bad decisions with regard to speed trucks are being governed, and that only seems likely to include irreversibly from the factory in the future.

If your truck's governed too slow, don't complain, thank a million veteran drivers.

 

moot point but most of us that are long legged,not unlike this thread,do not eclipse the speed limit excessively(some consider 3 over excessive so fwtw) when deemed inappropriate to do so.Loosely translated that means we don't speed when traffic will not allow.common sense is actually in play contrary to popular/ignorant opinion.

Ignorant= without knowledge.

 

Hey you never really know how fast you're going anyway so just do what feels right. Your speedometer isn't exact and the cop's radar isn't calibrated. Checkered flag!!! You win!!!

 

When I set my cruise I go by my GPS, the speedo and GPS usually differ by 1 - 1 1/2 mph so I go by the GPS.

 

Speed doesn't kill- the driver kills. I wrote an article about speed in a local newspaper. It must have made sense to some, because the reps in the state used it to get our state speed limit raised to 70 mph

 

My brother in law is a state bear in FL and he has told me many times that cars he lets roll at 5 over but a rig he nails at 1 because we are the Ahem "professional" In fact I was pulled over for 2 over on I4 a few months ago. i lucked up that he just did a once over and let me roll out no ticket.

 

It don't really matter how fast you are going, you make a mistake, you're going to have a wreck. Only wreck Ive ever had was where I was running 15 miles an hour, which makes you wonder, how did he have a wreck going 15 miles an hour? right?

 

My point for posting this is that if I DO make a mistake, I want to either be in front of or behind that pack of traffic, so I don't take anyone with me. If they are moving pretty good, Ill stay behind them. If they are running less than the speed limit, Ill get in front of them but you will never see me running with them.

 

Only Ontario and Quebec require speed limiters.