J.B Hunt Intermodal drivers

My guess would be governed. Some of those giant carriers seem to have different trucks set at different speeds. I'm not sure of the rhyme or reason. I'm fairly convinced of this because the speeds are always the exact same depending on the type of trailer or whatever. I could be wrong though.
I don't work for JB, but I'm governed and will cruise the center lane only if I can actually go the speed limit. Especially in areas with bad mergers. (Northwest Arkansas, you know who you are....)
Otherwise I try to stay to the right.
What's real fun are those intermodal guys around Chicago who mosey along at 50 all over town. Usually in a ragged-out Volvo, Columbia, or some such...

 

I do Harrisburg all day long. I am in that center. Whatever that truck is painted. Does not matter to me. You pass on the right? Pass on the left? Pass me any where you can. I don't likely give a #### what you do as long you don't slam your car into my tractor trailer. There is a reason everyone uses the middle lane in Harrisburg.

Just don't hang out in the left lane. You come up on the 81/Intl' airport split and there you are stuck behind a train of trucks nose to tail at 80mph. You are going to the airport friend. Not 81 you wanted.

JB is not the only culprit. Many companies foolishly limit the speed of trucks.

There is no hourly pay in semi trucks. I did run for JB very, very briefly at the end of my trucking life as it were to paraphrase. What I did discover in JB Hunt was a dispatcher in Fayetteville who knows his &^%$ and should have been my dispatcher all these wasted years. There are only three dispatchers I ever liked. And this is or was one of them.

There is no doing something wrong. It's a instinct for self preservation to be in that middle lane. You in the car is just going to have to suck it up princess and get around the big trucks however you can. I aint moving. Now if I know the brand of car and color you drive in the morning, I'll do what i can. But Im not going to be doing that all dam day.

Yes JB is anal on speed limits. As are many other companies. If I did not witness my body and eyes eaten up the way they were, I would have left he industry if I could not join Lepton1's Ungoverned paradise.

 

I understand better. Thank you sir. Things have indeed changed since my day. There is a connector between 81 and... 83 I think it is. If you followed 83 long enough you get to baltimore.

Back in the 80's Harrisburg was a real hot spot near the airport for speed, herd think and center lane.

Im not here to argue or make trouble. There is enough of that already. I say this. I hear you loud and clear. And yes to me what you just said means there was changes between my time then and now. So half the stuff about that road don't apply anymore really. What am I to do?" Erase my blather? I could. But it wont make sense.

One of my better trainers taught me how best to use Harrisburg. Come up on 15, ok there is what is called Camp Hill Junction. Cross that into town. Pull two small hills prior to a gentle right turn northbound. That dips into a valley just before the river itself. There is a bridge you check carefully as you go. (They might have paved under there...) then left at the river light.

Work your way north. There should still be a railroad yard strictly for Coal. Follow that over the small hill out of the residental area leaving the river behind. You will eventually settle on the main US 15 northbound they have made big improvements by removing mountains.

I also hear you on the clowns needing to go 5 or 10 mph over. There is a part of me that is pretty professional. Thankfully. Such as it is. But part of my trucking life was misspent being one of those clowns you speak of. I don't have any problems sharing that because at my age, there is literally no problem sharing that. It was temporary and I got it stopped by becoming professional.

You also teach me updated laws or current day situation in a given area. I value you for that. It really helps me understand that much of the things are history now. It does not apply. Theoratically I could ask myself, do I matter?

almost 10,000 thanks seems to think so. So I'll continue on as best I can and update and learn as i go.

One person said to me he thinks he got me figured out. That's fine. That's what he thinks. There is no problem. There is also a big difference between what someone thinks and what someone knows.

I love to be that person who learns something new that applies to current day in the industry and understand now that I learned something, I actually know something. That has to be worth something to you and others.

I think so.

Keep em coming.

 

There is no problem. I use the ignore list.

I will miss him. But it's ok. I don't have too many years left in life and don't intend to waste any of it tumbling and wrestling online. I remember a life without a net once upon a time. What alife it was then.

The speed thing is a problem with me also. That tells me that overall people have trouble in life, as far as being stressed, worried or perhaps sick and trying what they can do to get by.

It's migrating into a real threat from my POV against themselves when if trucks are governed to 60 or slower. It's going to kill many people.

I think we agree on the running with the traffic. And sometimes I don't always agree with someone or something, but I choose to generally let it go OR... if today is a really good day, I'll take a time out and ask why? Be-live it or not, people explain that why. That helps alot me thinks.

I think we are done here. I gotta chores to attend to.

Have a great day.

 

The way I do Harrisburg...

Southbound 81 to 83:
Stay right 81 until I get to the 2 mile mark to 83 southbound. Move left. Get on ramp and take 83 south. Move and stay right and run the flyover to continue on 83 toward the river bridge. Move right as soon as possible at end of ramp. Get to river bridge and move right again. Stay right for the 35 mph turn to continue south on 83 toward York.

Northbound 83 to 81:
Hold center lane coming up from York at Lemoyne/Camp Hill and get up onto 83 to go across the river bridge. Move far left (no signs or lane restriction that I've seen) and ride it across the river bridge because the far right lane ends after the 19th St exit. Ride left lane to the 83 flyover ramp to get up to 83. Move right as soon as possible and stay there until 81 where the split is. There I stay in the middle lane and then bear right to 81 north as the right lane ends once you merge onto 81.

Right or wrong, that's how I do it. I can run 65 and go with the flow of traffic, not holding anyone up or slowing them down (when it's not a standstill due to congestion)...

I get in the correct lane WELL ahead of time, so as not to have to make a last minute merge, and potentially cause more problems than are usually already present. It is Harrisburg after all, and sometimes I think it's easier to drive in Philly than out there...lol