FMCSA--Speed limiters are coming

Ain;t it ironic that every politician thinks he is an expert on every subject under the sun> They do not listen to those who have spent their lives in a profession.

 

Nope, not at all. If they did we’d all still have a truck with a 290 and a 4+4 in it to screen drivers with. I had one in my yard for years that I only put a permit on for road tests and to move the odd crusher with. A lot of road tests ended as soon as they pulled the door open. That truck was better at screening truck drivers than university graduates are apparently.

 

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Maximum speed set at 45mph. 14 hour sleeper berth. 15 minute break every 2 hours driving time. That will make the roads safer.

 

Perfect. My bananas will be ready for banana bread at purchase.

 

not me. One of the several reasons I left the business.

Death by a thousand cuts. Supply chain problems are a result of something wrong in this business.
Land of unintended consequences.....

 

These regulations aren't about safety anymore.

The goal is to make the industry so ####ing miserable, that by the time they're ready to roll out autonomous trucks en masse, there will be no one left who actually *wants* to do this job, and thus, would want to try to protest or stop said en masse roll-out.

In August it'll be 10 years for me. If I make it to August. In that time, zero injury or fatality accidents, zero tickets. I'm the kind of guy you *want* behind the wheel of these things. And I'm done. Over it. Already on borrowed time. And the new truck I was just put in has modules that render my CB radio - one of only two hobbies I can take on the road with me - basically useless by spewing 5-9 pounds of RFI garbage noise into my receive.

I'm hoping to find some kind of work that I can do remotely, from anywhere, so I can just go hide out in Montana or something; because the highways are going to turn into a blood bath if this #### goes through. Just look at Canada. Especially Ontario. There are multiple huge crashes every day now up there. And that started when they mandated limiters.

 

Cool, I agree