16mph over in Cali

Then I guess I'm wrong. I may be confusing how the insurance provider or my employers assigns reckless driving for CDL holders instead of TN Code. I never got a speeding ticket in a truck and only once in the 1980s in a car. I don't speed more than 4.9 mph anywhere, since the 1980s. I plead guilty to tuning out during the drinking and driving and the stealing property meetings also , because I don't do those things even a little bit. My whole life I've had one person or another tell me about the 15 over = reckless. I guess I'll speed up. LOL Thanks for the correction.

 

I agree with you. What I noticed is EVERY FedEx, UPS, LTL truck in CA EVERY time I go to CA is passing my 59.9 mph truck doing 62 mph in a 55 for truck zone. I don't know if those companies have a deal worked out, like some cities have for UPS & FedEx, essentially the company pays a monthly fine for parking tickets for their vehicles and their vehicles double-park, park illegally because otherwise nobody gets packages and the city shuts down. Can haulers are as likely to be doing 40 mph as 75 mph, the mega fleets in CA seem all to be doing 55-60.

BTW, the only thing I liked about the Freightliner radar system was the display that gives me the speed and distance of the vehicles around me.

 

The amount of tread on a tire definitely influences the speedometer and the odometer. At one time I was coming and going to the same place for 3-5 years. I first noticed my replacement truck, when I had one, showed different distance between A and B, while my regular truck showed the A-B distance as X +/- 1-2 miles. Then I had a tire change on my regular truck and the trip distance changed by maybe 4 miles for A-B.

I also, in the best circumstances, would time a 1 mile section of straight road with an empty trailer and never got more than a 1/2 mph difference between speedometer and calculated speed. I do this in every truck I drive early on to verify if my speedo is fooling me or not. GPS speed is not necessarily accurate, but it will be close in most cases. GPS speed calculations assume the earth is more spherical than it is. GPS speed displays are close enough most of the time to show if your truck speedo is inaccurate enough to worry about.

 

It's not so much you are wrong or I am right as much as it is so confusing sometimes. It's possible to get a reckless charge doing 45 in a 55 just because of weather conditions and where you are. That code section gives a lot of discretion to the cops. The difference between a 15-over ticket and a reckless ticket in all honesty is what kind of a mindset the cop has.

 

Out of curiosity, are you paid so poorly by your employer that you need to speed in order to make money?

 

Can haulers in California are either doing 40 or 75. There is no middle.

 

I got a 21mph over in a CMV in Texas several years ago and just went in person to court. I pleaded guilty and said with a CDL I couldn’t take a defensive driving course. They lowered the ticket to 10 over and I just paid that fine.

Edit: reading this thread on how everyone dogs you for speeding is hilarious. Like they never went over the speed limit in their entire life. Don’t be so hard on yourself and remember it’s a forum with god knows who typing replies.

 

Back in 2016 on my birthday I got busted going 70mph in Tehachapi CA. Just past the scales going down hill behind a truck hauling explosive. Cop didn't lecture me and I didn't give an excuse.

Didn't fight it. Just paid the fine of $450ish. It did not affect my authority. But I did give myself a stern warning to be more careful!!

 

The Grapevine and a rather large area North of it, is in Kern County. I've found out the hard way they are rather infamous for issuing truck drivers speeding tickets.
Last April I got ticket for doing 66 in a 55 on I-5 about 15 miles North of the Grapevine. The kicker to me is I drive a 65mph governed truck and although it will go faster than that one a downhill, I was no where near one. I had a lawyer through US Legal. She basically told me it boiled down to of the cop showed up to court or not. She said in her experience in Kern County about 50% of the time the officer doesn't show up and the ticket is simply dropped. Unfortunately, I wasn't that lucky. But, they did drop it down to between 1 and 9 mph over the posted speed limit. The fine was the same, but it is a tad better on the record. It cost me $489. I've been with US Legal since I got my license, so I didn't have to pay anything more for the lawyer the represent me.
I drive California alot. I can't tell you how many times I'm cruising down the road at 60, 61 or 62mph and a highway patrol eases by me without paying any attention to me. Much of the time, if you do drive 55 mph, due to traffic, you're gonna be a real nuisance and somewhat of a hazard to the other vehicles on the road. That said, when traffic is light and I have plenty of time, I'll kick it back to between 55 and 57 simply for the fuel milage savings.

 

That's a level 3 inspection. You're carrier has to sign and return it