speed limit 55 in california. what it's costing you

soooooooooo relaxing, i spend more time sleeping then driving.

cali won't raise the speed limit. it's a revenue generator for them. supposedly. but it's part of their clean air act. faster speeds mean heavier pedal which puts more fuel through the engine. more fuel means more emissions.

in their eyes.

when i took the emissions class in utah. they explained how cali once banned towing anything. cars also weren't allowed to use vacuum advance on the distributors. and restricted the speed limit to 55 for ALL vehicles.

you also have oregon at 55 and washington at 60. really makes for long journeys as the miles SLOWLY creep by.

 

There's parts of Oregon and Cali, mainly NorCal that I wouldn't want to go more than 55. In Oregon, west of Farewell Bend to Pendleton gets kind of hairy, especially "Pleasant Valley". I put that in parentheses because there's nothing pleasant about it in the winter time. And on the 5 it gets tricky as well in spots.

 

I'll tell you what really kills the industry -- drivers with 13 years' experience accepting jobs at $0.34/mile.

 

Huh. In what country are you...?

Most steering wheel holders find they cannot begin to understand the premise of "split speed limits". They are intended to keep trucks from bunching up and to force into being the adequate following distances the typical steering wheel holder cannot abide. Like the remainder of traffic code, they are rendered ineffective by steering wheel holders who consider themselves perpetual victims of traffic code.

That said, CHP is very tolerant of truck speeds up to 65 mph outside of congested areas... if the driver is maintaining an adequate following distance, which of course is a very rare thing because the typical steering wheel holder should not be licensed to drive a nail, much less operate a piece of heavy equipment among oblivious motorists.

 

Crank up that ac and be cool man.

Love 55 speed limits over speed limiters any day.

Hold on.... that's the same thing...

And you say I could have control and actually give it gas to pull that corner :O

Love California.

Wish more states were 55 like in the good ole days.

 

You can't possibly be serious. ..do you know how slow 55 is...that's slower then slow...they would have to pay o/o 7.00$ a mile to make any money...and company drivers 2.00$ a mile at 55

 

I think it is interesting how many 62mph governed trucks are out there, but speed limits are being raised to 70-75 mph, something seems inherently dangerous about this mix. Four wheelers who want to get thru the trucks bunched up in the right lane so they can go the speed limit or faster aren't going to mix well with trucks doing 10-15 mph under the limit, that's assuming people even obey the speed limit.

Adam

 

You don't know how fast 55 is, probably due in part to "speed adaptation". Here's an introduction:
http://www.adirondackdailyenterpris...tion-reason-for-major-pet-peeve.html?nav=5153

 

I go through Banning regularly in the winter occasionally in the non winter. Banning is the triviality. Local trucks do not typically roll through Banning or any other scale.

If Cali truly wanted to make trucks mechanically safer they would require all California registered trucks to be inspected by a state officer every year to catch all the worn out junk that runs around the SF bay area and LA. I have heard rumor that they started doing this in the LA area.

 

Maybe, but most assuredly there is something inherently dangerous about trucks "going with the flow"; adequate following distance becomes ~impossible to attain, much less maintain.

Speed limits are irrelevant to whether motorists operate stupidly in proximity to trucks. The typical nitwit leaves Point A for Point B. Then once on the road they set intermediate destinations/goals often including "in front of that truck", "got to make that light", etc., ad nauseum.

Perhaps nowhere is thinking more despised than when behind the wheel. Motorists operate on their "feelings", logic be dammed.