Why Do You Exceed The Speed Limit?

Crete sends out a special message when a load goes through Indiana warning us to slow down in the 55 mph zones, I guess they have a lot of drivers barreling through them at 62 mph and getting tickets, but if we go to California we don't get the speed message, just the 40 foot rule message

 

I am talking about creeping over a few mph over on SMALL downgrades, not doing 80 down Cabbage Hill! I have run The Cabbage, Cajoness Pass, and run Monteagle quite frequently. I'm one of the slow trucks on the right lane with the four ways on!!!!!

Don't blow my statements out of proportion!#

 

My boss told me not to speed at all, since I get paid by the hour I can live with that.

 

I am also one of the slow trucks with you.

I think when I reviewed this thread since the time I visited here, something has gotten stinky like a fish left out too long with several people not being professional with the trash talk etc.

I will say this. If we cannot have a civil discussion among each other without taking potshots, then there is no point. Do we all agree?

There was a time long ago we let em run downgrade. It literally does not matter how fast provided there was a run out that is straight and did not impose too much of a crush on the airride suspension at the bottom. We used them to make time.

Fast forward to today... Ive gone the other way, the heavier the slower. If it takes all day to get to the bottom, that is cool by me. Evidently we have many younger people who do not feel it is so. Thus the tensions that are evident here.

 

I dont speed anymore *<- edit*period. It doesnt help me to. I dont care if others do, as long as they dont tailgate.
Ive driven a triple digit truck(back in 99). It was fun for a week. Then I realized it wasn't making me any more money and my stress level was through the roof. Though it was fun to run texas in the middle of the night and just let the ponies go. But you could just about see the fuel gauge move lol

 

It's simply the need for speed.

Seriously, you need help, for your own piece of mind.

Have a nice life.

 

I find that I get less fatigued running slower.

 

In all honesty I do the speed limit pretty much all the time. Commercial vehicle or personal vehicle. Does it piss me off when someone passes me? Not one bit. Their license, their problem.