No truck should drive over 50 mph in heavy rain

Whew bud what bit you on the tail?
I ain’t out there hammer down in the hydroplane lane but I do keep a nice steady 60-65mph. It ain’t how fast they’re going it’s what they are or are not paying attention to.
Running in Michigan I was doing 65 flat to the floor (company truck) I seen about 6inches of water in the lane so I slowed down and moved over.
The four wheeler running 50-55 didn’t and ate ####. If you can’t handle the situation then change it. If others are doing fine let em be.
Rain and water ain’t like black ice.
A lot more then just speed decides if something is unsafe or not.

 

You must not have been to southern Florida they drive in it everyday so people dont slow down for rain but if it gets to 70 degrees it looks like the dead of winter up north

 

According to the national American Speed Safety committee, it was. 84.6% of crashes in storms were from drivers driving to slow.

 

Back in the 70’s when the government commissioned a large traffic study to sell the 55 mph speed limit, one of the things they found was speed is the number one reason for traffic collisions. Or so the safety people want you to believe. According to the report, that was miss quoted to a degree. The report stated that speed differential was the number one cause of traffic collision. A vehicle traveling 15 mph slower than the traffic average is 23 times more likely to be involved in a collision. That was confirmed by the study released in 2007. That was the same study that found 73 percent of CMV and light vehicle collisions were caused by the actions of the light vehicle (autos).
That’s the study that flipped out DOT/FMCSA, so they commissioned a new study, only on data from Tennessee and found that only 53 percent of collisions were caused by autos. That study has some questions and data has been mostly quiet, because they actually only investigated a small number of collisions and relied mostly reports filed by law enforcement investigators.

Paper lays still, put anything you want on it.

 

Probably swerved to dodge the moron in the left lane doing 25 mph.

 

So now it's not about rain, it's about rollovers? Make up our mind please.

 

Should have had the 4 ways on!

 

See here in central Florida. 80% of people still do 80mph, 10% drive accordingly to the weather, 10% drive 19 1/2 mph in the hammer lane with their 4 ways on (NY tags lol)