DOT Proposes Speed limiter

60mph would be good.


It would really gum up the roadways, so insultingly bad, they would recind it and never want to go through it again.

 

Speed Kills, shoulda speed limited everyone long time ago. Just look at Swift, they are speed limited and hardly never see a Swift crash out here.

 

Yes and it worked so well for IL,IN,and ohio

 

Has the DOT ever rescinded anything before ?

I know they did the 34 reset ...but thats all i recall

Anything more ?

 

Wow can you imagine the traffic jams. Prime may have a chance.

 

I don't see anything good because Companies have been restricting for decades and now DOT wants to get in on this? Suppose someone breaks the speed downgrade who is gonna call for a violation? Eh? It did not happen unless DOT is standing there watching.

Getting truckers to do anything as a single bloc is herding cats. Have heard many issues over the years where national this and national that was threatened but bottom line always someone willing to keep rolling.

Im beginning to go the way towards leaning on the other vehicles that have the run on the roads around the trucks at speed. Here in Arkansas it's common to have people upwards of 90+ in our two laners because they are personally pushed for time and cannot be bothered to run legal.

This will not end well. Suppose DOT says you are limited to 65 and a company has a complaint filed against them for doing only 60? Hmmm?

 

Will create more problems than resolve them.
After all these years of driving, and having been through the National 55 MPH era, there is still one thing i do not understand.
If the highest legal speed limit in the US posted at 85MPH, why does the federal government allow auto makers to design cars/trucks that can run 105 -150MPH and be street legal?
I would almost bet more lives are lost in High Speed auto crashes where no large truck is involved than in crashes that involve a tractor trailer.
Slow down the car and you will achieve a lower percentage of deaths.

 

so much for freedom

 

When I was young, 85 or 90 was fast, even 70 felt like I was going fast. (My top speed was 130 in a Z28, sshh)
But today, 55 year old women are running 85, with a phone in their hand, while driving a minivan, and their only going to Walmart, probably

 

America is a Free Country. Now I understand many and growing valid challenges to that freedom. Our Cars ever since we started building them is our'n to use a hillbilly term for emphasis. No one else makes cars like we do unless they wish to create machines capable of sustained 150-200 on the Modern German Autobahn. We make I think in Carolina or Alabama somewhere a M5 convertible here in the BMW Factories raised up a couple of decades ago in non union territory. I recall running parts to support these new cars then. Many would go to Europe for that capability.

There was a time Montana was a stack of 5 dollar bills however many times you got caught. Not anymore. Texas? Heh. I thought I was fast. Hitting the line at 130 and seeing truckers with bigger rigs and a bit of fire blowing by me. Never mind the cars.

Everything started to come apart around 1995 when the computers got cheap enough to put into trucks and the dispatcher discovered they can push a button all day and night making sure that there is no more funny business and companies jumped all over it. The one freedom left was to be a Owner Operator which I explored and bought a truck (*Less than a week but... I would not have had the restrictions now increasingly enforced by company trucks on my own midroof..) as a work around. That freedom would also be eroded.

Now what does that put us? So we are regulated until we quit and go home. Then what? Buy a car that will do maybe 65? It's really bad so you try to buy a car that will get up and go. There are some cars that are pretty crappy and should have never been built, some of you may recall. Citation comes to mind.

What's next? 40 hour work week for truckers? Ha. Or the half time European model? Passing trailers like a giant relay race across the USA for 10 days? I don't think there will be that many drivers economically able to make a decent living under a situation under Federal Suppression of work related freedoms.