FMCSA--Speed limiters are coming

If this limiter comes into play it will be the downfall for companies. no one is going to want to drive 65 while 4 wheelers are doing 90 and running up your tail. or how bout a row of trucks 2 lanes deep trying to pass each other get the popcorn ready for that one cause you know a 65.2 mph truck will try to pass a 65.1 mph truck
This is just another stupid idea by people who have never been in a truck their entire lives.

 

11R24.5s will probably become real popular again.

 

Some trucks are notorious for speedometer showing a mph or two faster than you’re really going. I think manufacturers want that extra fake fuel mileage as a selling point. These trucks drivers will be ticked if companies don’t change tire profile in ecm to compensate.

 

They can issue all the mandates they want . I own the truck and I will determine how fast it's gonna go. We can keep playing the game and I will pay fines until they revoke my authority and take my license. Either way I'm not driving a castrated truck.

 

Deregulation was also about breaking union power so that labor couldnt threaten the supply chain... it worked, for every 10 truck drivers you have 12 opinions. And wages went down. Aaaaaand the supply chain is still threatened, by the people supposedly protecting it.

 

Think there’s multiple trucks in crashes now? Wait til you see what happens when you handcuff them all together with speed limiters. I’ve been watching it here for years. In the winter they’re leaving the road 15 at a time. Rarely is there a crash that doesn’t involve at least 3 trucks. The speed limiters alone made our highways lethal and near useless, then they made it worse with e-logs. Obviously they’ve given up on trying to tax and ticket truckers to death and gone to more direct means.

 

How about just building 1985 model trucks again, and quit handing out CDL’s based on political correctness scores instead of driving ability. Then the trucks would see to it they only have Truck Drivers in them again, and most of the problem solves itself. The airline industry has been wrestling with automation for over 40 yrs now. Same problem started it there. Executives and shareholders would be making way more money if they didn’t have to pay those pesky pilots so much. So they started filling the planes with computers. As a result, they’re not pilots anymore, they’re system attendants, and a lot don’t have the skills to deal with a problem when a computer ####s up. To the point that an airlines senior pilot discovered that some aircrews couldn’t set up and fly a manual approach successfully on the same aircraft type they “fly” every day. How else do you think an aircraft that has the ability to fly itself into the ground gets built in the first place? “If we can just get rid of those xxxxxx’s we’ll be more profitable”. Sound familiar?

 

Gets my vote. Bring back the Super Liner and the General!!

 

One trip across 401 and 20 from Windsor to Montreal should be enough to show the truth to any sane person. Sadly most of the idiots in the 4 wheelers were all for it, the government told them it would make them safe, and they thought it wouldn't affect them in any way. We’ll that’s what they thought before they went out on a highway plugged with flying blocks of trucks 2lanes wide and 5mi long 20’ from one another and one lane with every 4 wheeler in Ontario in it trying to get around them. And that’s just here, the sheer numbers of vehicles you folk have to deal with down there should make the Interstate system a ####show for the record books.

 

The trucks themselves used to see to it that you had to be a truck driver to drive them. You still had some better than others, but they were all truck drivers. At one time you could walk out in my yard and find trucks with Cummins or Cat engines. RT15, RTO15, RTO13, RTOO13, 4+4 or 6+4 transmissions. And I could throw the keys to whichever one I wanted to at anyone I chose, and they jumped in and took off. Any one of those trucks would wash-out 3/4 of a Megas drivers as soon as they pulled the door open. I’ve seen it happen. I had a Western Star here with a 4+4 in it that I used for road tests, that truck was scaring supposedly experienced drivers off even in the late ‘80’s.