Is this for real, UPS qualcomm or equivalent?!?

If true. That's a whole different end of a spectrum from Schneider lol. I'm actually not sure which one I'd rather be on

 

I don't know about this whole stealing time bit.

If anything driving slower is LOSING time for all concerned. If this is thought to protect log book hours availible, it really does not. You will burn it either tomorrow or the next day, driving a slower speed only assures you wont get as far when that hour of maxed logs approach. If you are slow enough, in my day that's considered sloth and lazyness and you will be replaced by someone who will run.

I know that recently there was a lot of forum posts about the joys of running 1200 miles or whatever per week beating the system and trying to live on next to nothing. That's foolish too. There are too many drivers runnign twice that hard and 1200 or whatever is no miles at all.

If that Qcomm post comes from a ordinary driver expressing his opinion, the Company will deal with him. If it is a Dispatcher or Company officer detailing the newly published company policy that all drivers will therefore take the truck to the max speed whatever the conditiions I smell bull. Why? No company will advocate speeding in a construction or bad weather.

Everything else considered, this posting is only upsetting to those who will be upset anyway, trollish to others and to those like myself... cause a flood of opinions. Basically a storm in a teapot.

60,63,68... you are laboring too hard. the speeds presented here do not show any apprecitable differences in average overall speeds and will not improve your distance gained against your reciever's future appointment, date, time to the hour and distance remaining.

If anything, the Industry is probably going to slow the trucks further until they threaten to become liabilites and get people killed or hurt really bad as it was in the old days of split speeds and the early days of governor usage via engine computers back in the 90's

Or we may even see a return to a even more brutal speed control, discarding high horse power emissions choked over priced engines going back to 300 cummins or something where you have to fight inertia in the top 3 gears just to try and keep up with the others. Or drag upgrade at 20 mph in low range becuase you aint got the power to get into high and stay in it.

 

Where in the QC message are you reading that the company is informing its drivers to drive max speed whatever the conditions?

It clearly states when the traffic/weather will allow.

 

I want to know if that's legitamite.

 

If they are paid by the hour then the argument could be made that they are stretching time to distance ratio for more money.

On the other hand running 68 all day can be stressful when most other trucks and traffic out there are going 62-65.

Spend a lot of your day neck and neck side by side with big trucks which is inherently not safe if one of you has a blowout at that moment. The guy trying to pass who cannot pass big fast in a hurry expects the other guy to slow down so he can get his princess tail in front.

It's just very stressful and fatiguing to run up against the speed governer against other speed limited trucks all day. I miss my truck, when it comes time to pass, kick it up to 75 and leave everyone in the dust.

If the message is real it is undoing the safety culture companies have been trying desperately to foster over the last 5 years. If you peruse trucking company FB pages all over their feeds are messages talking about various safety points, one being to run 2-3 miles per hour below the speed limit

 

I miss the olden days where no one had any of this computer governor crap. There was two things... first if you were empty and had horses you got by in the hammer lane (Or Monfort lanes... they had that name for a reason...) you got up front and stayed out of everyone's way with a dual job of hunting bears.

The ones with bad horse power stayed in the back, caboose time. Maybe those who were loaded heavy also did that too. The rest were in the rocking chair. The Caboose had the job of hunting bears and making house call on anyone who pulled off lamed or pulled his intercooler clamp or something...

Im not here to complain about speed. Im trying to making a warning thought to all people who are fancying themselves a motor carrier... you club the drivers too much over the small #### you are going to get burned when the drivers have had enough and rise up.

Sure you can fire the lot and replace em with arabs at .20 a mile and governed at 50 mph. They don't know any better. For a while anyhow.

 

I would not be one cursing at you scottie, not with that hot slosh you got going on there.

Just another reason to have the uniden turned down low some days the abuse I hear over it makes me ashamed there was ever truck drivers on the earth after God created the first mountain and told us have at it.