Am i at fault for using common sense.

Some of these people think a couple seconds is going to kill them then they turn around and trash the truck stops.

I wonder if any of them have been fishing before? It would probably drive them crazy when nothing happens.

 

When I drove a Big truck governed for 65, I didn't exceed 55 mph to attain a bonus. But that left another 10 mph under my right foot, --- didn't have cruise control till I went local for the company in the Los Angles and surrounding areas, where traffic is too heavy and unpredictable for cruise control use.

When I transitioned into an open road ride with cruise control it was mechanical, not electronic, governed for 1,800 rpm --- about 75 mph. From there to another mechanical Cat with mechanical cruise --- 2,100 rpm, not governed. Top end estimated at 115 mph, 113 mph for sure, --- accordin' to the radar cop who wrote the former driver a citation for (slightly) exceedin' the speed limit.

I use the cruise control long enough to provide numbers to crunch with the numbers produced by my right foot doin' the pedalin'. I like to repeat the comparison from time to time to see if the results differed betwixt cruise control and my right foot.
No contest.
The foot was the one that won hands down.

It worked for me.
Probably not everyone would agree that way is best for them though. As long as a driver can git-er-dun safely and maintain a speed greater than mine once they've gotten by, it's all good. :smt045

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4000173]Hi pupeperson, Huge 10-4. I never thought speed limiters were a good idea. Obviously, thought up by some pencil pusher that hasn't a clue what it's like to drive a truck.[/QUOTE]

But... ~obviously in response to a majority of "drivers" who haven't a clue how to operate a piece of heavy equipment at high speed among oblivious motorists.

One problem with truck driving seems to be that it's called truck driving. I remember a heavy equipment operator turned mait chief complaining "I got all the truck drivers I can afford, hire me an operator."

 

That's one difference in professional driving and steering wheel holding; protecting the incompetent from their own incompetence, best you can.

Many are satisfied if a crash isn't their fault. Every nitwit out there is somebody's loved one. I drive as if they were mine.

 

That doesn't make any sense... unless you want to to argue the typical truck driver doesn't have enough sense to pass safely.

If all trucks were governed at 55 they'd have a hard time catching up with one another to pass.

 

This thread got brought up on Sirius-XM Road dog show when they were talking about snitches today. Hit the big leagues now .

 

"That doesn't make any sense...If all trucks were governed at 55 they'd have a hard time catching up with one another to pass."

In a perfect world you'd be right. Actually, you could have added: An even harder time trying to complete a pass!

The trucking world is, as most of us who grew up in the business and have more than a few decades of working in it recognize, imperfect. Roads have hills and curves. Loads vary from truck to truck, engine power and aerodynamics are unequal, as is rolling resistance for, lets say an on-highway truck running super singles as compared to an on-off road truck with deep lug-type tires. Some loads are more stable than others, as is the experience or lack of same of the driver. Since everything is unequal, including schedules, you're going to have one truck trying to pass another on every overpass or grade and not being able to complete that pass before the truck being passed rolls off the downhill side of that overpass or grade whereupon they're side by side, a rolling road block.! Imagine when every pair of trucks running together are like 2 Prime trucks trying to pass each other. It's gonna be a cluster to end all clusters the whole way across the country, unless you happen to think human nature is gonna change overnight and think everyone's gonna be on their best behavior and let one another go, which with all the newbies out there just isn't gonna be what happens. Making everyone try to operate at the level of the lowest common denominator (most incapable vehicle out there) is like communism -- great in theory, but in practice not so much.

And then, after miles of one rolling roadblock after another, what do you think the now really late and PO'd 4 wheelers are gonna do? I know, they'll be patient and safe and not speed and cut in and out of traffic like they already do only to an exponentially greater degree! This concept, like so many others dreamed up by those with no practical working knowledge of what it is they're trying to regulate, is doomed to fail -- badly -- with tremendous costs in both money and lives. Remember, you read it here first!!

 

I wouldn't worries too much on that ,but that co work needs a busted cheek bone and a nice loaded Hershey squirt style swirly .....tell your safety you made the safest decision under the circumstances ...then ask him what he would've done , then act like safety was your prime concern always

 

And there are attorneys advertising on TV in Tennessee that they will take the car driver's case with no upfront fee.....so there is nothing to stop a motorist from suing a trucking company over any accident. These ads are on tv every day multiple times, so they obviously have made a lot of money by suing trucking companies for motorists that hit a truck that they couldn't see.

 

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