DOT Proposes Speed limiter

Once again there are more comments on here than there are on the regulations.gov web sight .

Proof once again that when it comes to our profession the average driver would rather whine and cry than stand up and do anything about the regulations .

 

Ya, set the limit at 65 and driver reward program limit so low that it's always available ....

It's still a pos mandate.....

I've gone a step farther.... My data port is wired thru a spare switch. In the off position when you plug in a pop up comes up saying can't make a data link. With switch on all is good...

 

Be more fun to use a capacitor instead of a switch...

 

I didn't have driver rewards set so as to go over the limiter. There are other behind the scenes ECM tweaks that are less detectable.

 

Don't think you set the tire rpm ...

HMM I'll have to think on this.....

 

You could probably just tell the ECM you put more aggressive gearing in the rears so it allows the higher RPM's in top gear thinking the truck is going slower than it really is. Probably cheaper to do it that way than to order a truck with the aggressive gearing and swap in the highway rears...but I'd imagine any time the ECM parameters are adjusted like that, there's a log of who/what/when made the change. Mechanical swaps can happen anywhere, by anyone, with no "official" record of it ever having been done.

 

In mine the tire RPM is set as it should be for the Michelin Xones on the truck. No problem. Speedometer matches actual road speed as shown by roadside radar speed signs in construction zones and both the speed app on my iPhone that uses satellite and GPS in the qualcomm. Both trans and rear diff ratios set up in ECM as they should be. If you go to one of the guys that knows their way around an ECM, they can trip some parameters in the ECM so that, while everything is set up properly and the speed limiter is set, the truck will always run 10-15 mph faster. I watched them do it and they did not fiddle with driver reward stuff or change any of the tire revolution or trans and diff ratios.

 

Uh oh... Another internet bad ##* frantically typing away in the basement before his mom calls him up for dinner.

 

LMAO

 

ATA seems to have changed their tune a little bit.

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