Special Alert!! Tennessee EPA Speed Limits

Or air EQUALITY

 

68 MPH IS CRAZY THE TRUCKS NEED TO ATLEAST BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE FLOW ALL TRUCKE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GO ATLEAST 3-5 MPH OVER THE POSTED SPEED TO KEEP FROM BOTTLE NECKING UP TRAFIC I HAVE MY TRUCK GOVERNED AT 75 FOOT & 73 CRUSE WHICH IS A GOOD COMBONATION:smt111

 

I"m in knoxville tonite,until 2am then to memphis,trucks were all flying by me too. By the time their all done with the regulations and speed limits,we'll be starving our families. Engines need to be shut off,state and feds and municipal have vehicles running day and night,we need to stay warm and cool too. Glad I quit smoking,can't even enjoy that anymore in ohio,and other places. I"m starting to feel like an anjel and thats bad. thks turbo.

 

misspelled angel,don't you hate that when it happens.?

 

Of course all of these convoluted laws enacted to 'clean up the air' or 'reduce emissions' could have been averted if the government had made the automakers stick to the timeline enacted back in the 70's or 80's to reduce emissions on all vehicles. If the automakers spent a fraction of the money on reducing vehicle emissions that they spend to study where the best place is for cup holders, how many dvd screens is optimal in a minivan and now the heating/cooling cupholders so your beverage stays the optimal temp while you're spreading all those harmful emissions, then maybe there wouldn't be a need to pass and study all these laws to reduce emissions. It wouldn't even be an issue. Just my .02.

 

Time doesn't really matter. The logic is flawed because of the gearbox.

In theory you could be going 5mph but pushing 2500rpm, but also you in theory could be going 55mph and pushing 1200rpms. Speed has absolutely nothing to do with this, they just want to push people around. Given certain gearing, you could have the exact rpms at 55 and 65mph, both of which are giving off the same amount of exhaust.

You're not going to magically reduce emissions by changing speed limits or anything. If they really wanted to crack down on emissions they'd induce "rpm limits" which would be impossible to enforce or implant, so they implant the next best thing.

 

I guess that Tennessee didn't learn from Houston that the lower speedlimits didn't make a #### bit of difference.

 

When they did this, I just added TN to the list of places (like OH) where I'll spend very little (none if possible) of my money. No food or fuel unless there is no alternative. The cooler is stocked, and the tanks are full prior to crossing the state line. It's not the 55mph that bugs me. It's the 10mph variance. That has been proven to be unsafe time and again.

Now, as far as the pollution issue is concerned, I say pooh-pooh. The topography of this area is very hilly. I find that if I attempt to stay in 10th gear I'm too fast on the down hill, and too slow on the up hill. Remedy? Drop to 9th gear. The engine will help hold it back on the down slope, and I've got enough rpms to come up the other side without bogging down. Calculating 300 more rpms during the 60 minute drive means my engine has turned 18,000 more revolutions while driving through the Knox county area than it would have had I not down shifted. Hmmm. I think revenue is the issue, not getting the smoke out of the Smokies.

I've heard (from truckers, it must be true) that the EPA citation for being a "mass polluter" has been shot down by the courts. It seems there is a lack of physical evidence.

 

When we rolled through TN on 75 we made sure to use a lower gear to dump as much polution into the air as possible. Absolutely rediculous when you are in the middle of "nowhere" and they are reducing the speed limit for NO reason.

Sounds like a bunch of idiots who have never even been in a truck making laws restriction the operations of trucks.

 

Seems like everyone involved with trucking knows this except the idiots who make the laws. But seeing as they have never stepped foot-one in a truck.. it's to be expected.