Truckers Back a National 65-mph Speed Limit

LOL The Heading should read ""Trucking Companies Back a National 65-mph Speed Limit""

Sure drivers probaly are slowing down due to $4.50per Gal and low freight rates in order to make a few extra dollars (cause if they didnt they would make nothing) But in no way does that mean"Truckers" support a 65Mph mandated speed limit... This is a bureaucratic spin to give large corporations what they want.. once the fuel and freight rates level out they want everybody to go the same speed, this would not let a O/O get it there faster, something that makes shippers more attracted to O/O's..

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This reminds me of the two post
"Public supports higher tolls for toll roads"" and ""Toll roads are safer""

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Unfortunately some people will believe whatever they read and this is who they are targeting with such nonsense...

 

Most cars and pick-ups are computer controlled and can have thier top speed reduced also.I wonder how much crying the general public would do if they were treated like truckers with speed limiters?I think it would be fun to watch those little rice rockets trying to get down the road at 2000 R.P.M.but it would save fuel.

 

I'll probably get flamed for saying so, but I feel that vehicle owners should be able to govern/speed-limit their vehicles in any way they see fit. Any driver who wants an ungoverned truck can buy one, otherwise it's just one of many compromises you make in exchance for the simplicity and security of a company job.

That said, I also understand that a speed-governed truck effectively reduces a driver's hourly wage -- same number of hours at the wheel, but fewer miles and so less pay. Pay scales should rightly be adjusted so that a driver making $X/yr in a fast truck doesn't suffer a pay cut when the beancounters have the trucks turned down. What other industry would stand for such treatment?

 

i am a company driver our company is cutting back on our trucks at next service from70 to 67 to help out

 

we are just starting this we will probaly go back farther yet to

 

think about this one lets say a truck save a 1/2 mile to a gallon dropping their speed 5 mph at $4.00 a gallon and a burn rate of 10 gallons per hour for argument sake they save around one gallon an hour or 4 bucks, now an O/o gets say $2.00 bucks a mile at the reduced speed of 5mph he looses $10.00 bucks an hour minus the 4 for a net loss of $6.00 an hour x 11 hours or $66.00 a day x that by 6 days the loss is $396.00.
you company drivers take your pay say.35 a mile x 5 [the loss in miles per hour]x 11 hoursx6 days= thats $115.55 dollars a week out of your pocket. the companies now save $264.00 in fuel per week and 115.55 in labor costs per week for a savings to them of$379.55 which is pure profit to them!!

no wonder the Anti Trucking Association backs a national speed limit they can iin one swell swoop reduce their labor costs and at almost a $400.00 loss a week to the Owner Operators driver a stake thru the hearts of the O/os that have managed to survive so far

 

No flaming here--I quite agree. But that should be up to the owners, not Da Gubmint.

Nice idea, but since when do big companies ignore any chance to screw more money out of the drivers?

 

Haha, we usaully take our trucks the other way. We bump the limiter up not down. I took a truck cross country to deliver it and I had a coworker turn every limiter to 100 mph. Now I didn't go that fast, but it was a welcomed option. Before the truck speed limit was set at 63 mph. The cruise speed was set at 57 mph. There was no way that I was driving through south dakota at 57 mph. I get paid by the hour, not the mile. I still had a deadline to meet though.