Every once and a while I'll see a Werner, Western Express, Swift, Crete, or Prime truck loaded and doing 70+ on flat grade like 77 North through SC or 16 West from Atlanta to Savannah and other places.. I was under the impression their entire fleets were governed to 62-66 for insurance deductions...
They don't have "Leased To" anywhere on the tractor either; which is why I ask... On average they do 65 empty or even 62... Sometimes I'll see two of the same company one empty going 62 and one in the far left passing cars on near flat grade...
Why do you sometimes see mega carrier trucks doing 70+ on flat grade?
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Sometime the only way to tell a lease from a company truck is the truck number and even then you have to know that companies number scheme. Other times there are odd ball trucks that slip through the cracks with a higher set speed.
Company drivers can’t pay someone on the side to turn a truck up. All the manufacturers utilize licensed proprietary software that stamp exactly who plugged into that truck and what they did. You would definitely open yourself up to serious trouble for doing that. Mega drivers are notorious for snitching out fellow drivers and a faster truck would be on top of the list of things that would be called in so hopefully it’s a legitimately fast truck that the company knows about.RubyEagle, Flat Earth Trucker, gentleroger and 5 others Thank this. -
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These were company branded Cascadia and LT tractors... I seen a Western Express blowing the doors off 68MPH traffic up in CT about a year ago.. No hiils in sight and no Leased To on tractor; was a ~2021 LT
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I have a buddy who claims when he used to drive for a mega he unplugged the speed sensor at the wheel and that made the truck run wide open. It rendered the speedometer useless obviously but I guess that didn’t matter to him. Supposedly the company caught on eventually because he was always able to get more loads in than everyone else in the dedicated account he was on.
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