Speed Govener's

my dad was an o/o and his truck wasnt governed. His thing was like blkw900 either u can drive or u cant. so if we was out west we was hammerin down with the big boys but we just usually kept up with the flow of the other drivers and usually cruised 5-7 mph over the limit for that state except ohio, for some odd reason we never went over 54mph lol, im finidhing up trucking school and he has no idea im following in his footsteps

 

Ohio is not and never has been as bad as... Illinois, NJ, NY, and MD, just to name a few.

Ohio's State Police doesnt trucks specifically however if you're doing something stupid, and god knows I see enough of you doing stupid ##### they will hammer you before they will an 4 wheeler.

Its easy to drive through Ohio doing +4 and never get a 2nd look if you have any brains. Its not your speed they're looking for most of the time, its how you're dealing with conditions. In particular how you're dealing with the traffic around you.

 

My governor is my right foot and I go by the seat of my pants as to how safe I feel. Not to give anyone the impression that I rooster cruise the interstates, I will state that I do 5 over the posted at the most with my (self imposed) limit of 65mph. Personally I think they should really have more training and enforcement of every aspect of the roads. I for one see governed trucks as a hazard, but untrained drivers and non governed trucks can be as hazardous. I may be in left field on this but if the goverment and the ATA get their way on this we will see more speeding on the two lane roads and in parking lots (like we don't see more than enough already) with "drivers" trying to make up time.

 

mine is set a 99mph, because we had to put a value in the computer where it said speed

 

Mine was governed at 95mph when I bought it. I only found this out because I asked the dealer to hook up their computer and set the engine parameters the way I wanted them at the time of purchase (that way, it did not cost me anything.)

I had them set the governor to the maximum possible, which on my truck was 127mph (Caterpillar 3406E in a 1997 Peterbilt.) But I'll never even attempt to go that fast. It's more a psychological thing -- it's my truck, and I don't want any artificial restrictions.

(Computer geek aside: The reason 127 mph is the max is that Caterpillar uses a signed integer to store this value. A byte can store 2^8 = 256 bits of data; when you use one of those bits to denote positive or negative, you get 2^7 = 128 possible values. One of those values is zero, leaving you with 127 mph as the max. And this is bad design; there's no such thing as a negative speed, so they should've used an unsigned integer.)

 

If I am in a hurry, I will do 72. If not, I do 67 because I cant stand big truck drag racing. I think thats the biggest hazard on the bigroad.

 

Mine isn't governed by road speed, but it's a 2100RPM engine. That puts me at 100mph@2100RPMs.

 

Can someone explain what the theory behind governed trucks being a hazard is?

 

1- Unable to make a pass in less than 10 miles (holding up traffic)
2- No power to get over hills (holding up traffic)
3- Unable to get clear of congested traffic (too many trucks occupying the same mile of interstate...holding up traffic)
4- There is a LOOOOOOOONG list of reasons why its better to be able to do at least 75 mph when you need to...not the least of which is, thats the speed limit in some states.
5- I have a hard time staying alert at 60 mph...at 65 I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere, and at 70 I'm making money.