Do Any O/O's Run Strickly at 55MPH?

I'd rather haul loads that pay enough that I can afford to run the speed limit. If you are running 10-15 mph slower than everyone else, you are a crash looking for a place to happen....and when that happens, you'd dern sure better hope you haven't been fudging your log book because the person who ran under the rear of your trailer will probably call one of those 1-800-sue-a-trucker lawyers who WILL find any discrepancies in your paperwork and they use those discrepancies to prove negligence...which costs you more money than you would have spent in fuel running with the flow of traffic.

I work with a driver who was rear-ended on the interstate & received a citation for going too slow and obstructing traffic. He was running 50 mph (above the posted minimum speed for the road) while limping a blown tire up to the next exit instead of stopping on the shoulder of the highway to wait for a service truck to come out to him. Funny thing was, this happened shortly after Illinois raised the truck speed limit from 55 to 65...so a couple months earlier and he would have been within 5 mph of the posted maximum speed.

Slow traffic is a safety hazard. I refuse to drive on any road if the vehicle I'm driving can't do the speed limit on that road.

 

Would you rather someone feed you a line of bull excrement?

 

Lol! Ya it's not the fault of the idiot not paying attention that runs run into the back of the slower truck.




Conservative to the Bone.

 

Fuel economy is going to vary from truck to truck depending upon specs, the load, and the driver. You said in your post that you've run slower before and gave the results you have seen in your own truck...so what difference does it make what anyone else is doing? If you think it'll work for you, try it. If not, don't. Just make sure you realize that driving slow obstructs traffic, and could lead to being rear-ended. When that happens, your ducks had better be in a row because the distracted driver in the car WILL hire a lawyer, who WILL go over your paperwork with a fine tooth comb, and if they find any discrepancies, it will cost you more than you saved in fuel by driving slow.

 

...and that wasn't the question you asked.

I answered the exact question you asked in the negative, and gave you the reason why I do not.

If you wanted information about fuel economy, you should have asked about the fuel economy.