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CA speed limit for commercial trucks! (poll)

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Sixela918, Jun 23, 2022.

What speed do you run in CA?

  1. 55

    6 vote(s)
    10.9%

  2. 60

    22 vote(s)
    40.0%

  3. 65

    13 vote(s)
    23.6%

  4. 80

    5 vote(s)
    9.1%

  5. No comment

    9 vote(s)
    16.4%
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  1. Jun 24, 2022 #11
    D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    I run 58-60 all day everyday out there. Passed multiple chp with radars shooting , never been stopped. They really only stop the guys that running 65+
     
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  3. Jun 24, 2022 #12
    kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    It will never change. I was born and raised in the Bay Area. Back before the Intersates were built. Old US 40 ran from San Francisco Sacramento and beyond. It was 4 lanes but the truck speed limits were either 55 or even 45 mph in a lot of places.
     
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  4. Jun 24, 2022 #13
    bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    It's all about safety. Come on you all know that. I always got away with 62 or 63
     
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  5. Jun 24, 2022 #14
    JolliRoger

    JolliRoger Road Train Member

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    Yeah, my first time out (1957).. Came off Tehachapi and hit 99. Nice 4 lane, good , smooth. Going Frisco. Opened it up and got the red spotlight on my mirror within 5 miles. A red plastic lens held on spotlight by 3 metal springs. (Yes, I was intrigued. All us in MS,AL, GA, TN, LA, preferred the chrome configuration on the top- More visible, sounded better in open air vs the in grille.) I bragged on such a good road compared to "back home". He asked what speed limits MS had. Embarrassment, 45 mph. 45 MPH. here too he said. So, a warning to the kid from the south long way from home.... Next and last was SB thru Redding.
    (OEM car, Highway Patrol TV,. Black Dodge, white doors, lens on spotlight to flick your mirrors, big gold emblem on doors.)
     
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  7. Jun 24, 2022 #15
    REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    California.
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    I usually run 58 to 60 and haven't had a speeding ticket in California yet. I've been stopped and warned for doing 62.
    What you have to watch out for are the "Zero Tolerance Days" when they'll stop you for anything over fifty five. They probably won't write you but they'll delay you and chew on you for awhile. The zero tolerance days are seldom advertised but they do it on 80 between the Bay Area and Truckee and I-5 just about anywhere.
    If you're headed south from the Bay on 5 and all of a sudden everybody is doing 55 it might be a good idea to get your foot out of it.
     
    REO6205, Jun 24, 2022
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  8. Jun 24, 2022 #16
    mnmover

    mnmover Road Train Member

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    It has to do with number of axles, a bobtail 2 axle truck can run 70, no problem.
     
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  9. Jun 24, 2022 #17
    loudtom

    loudtom Road Train Member

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    If there's a cop or something on the shoulder, you have the option to slow down if it's unsafe to move over.
     
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  10. Jun 24, 2022 #18
    Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I'm 76 yrs old and have lived here almost all my years (probably 70) and I've noticed some things in the state NEVER change, like the truck speed limit. However, our upper level management at the CHP in all fairness do let trucks run 60/61 without ticketing. It's like an "un-written" rule. Taxes never change, last call at bars never change, a permit to build new construction near the ocean ? Plan on a long wait. I was quite surprised some years back when DMV started issuing 5 yr drivers licenses instead of 4 yr ! Now if only they would change the vehicle license plate design, the current one probably 20 yrs old.
     
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  11. Jun 24, 2022 #19
    tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

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    Somewhere out West, in my mind.
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    The speed limit signs don't give an explanation. You can guess like anyone else why the communist states have lower limits for trucks.
     
    tscottme, Jun 24, 2022
    tscottme, Jun 24, 2022
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  12. Jun 24, 2022 #20
    tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

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    Somewhere out West, in my mind.
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    I do 60, but all of the FedEx and LTL wiggles go past me doing 62-64 even if CHP is visible in the media or CHP is giving a Safe Driving Award to someone on the shoulder.
     
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