Drops & Hooks 101

I don't know how it is wrong for me to go the exact speed limit, or that i should be labeled with a derogatory title for doing so.

As far as helping create anger in others-- I have to dispute that; I am not in charge of others' emotions.

Drivers should get used to the idea of 'platooning' meaning keeping proper following distance and proper speed behind the leader no matter what. The technology is coming anyway, bumper radar and lane warnings (inablility to cross double yellow lines) would keep these guys behind me and prevent them from passing illegally. I believe my videos are showing what is really going on out there on the roads today and are a monument for the record because very soon these cowboy driving methods will be a thing of the past. Imagine 100 years from now when freight is teleported the people watching these videos will be in shock at the primitive way and the danger we put ourselves in to drive down roads 65 miles an hour on 2 way roads just inches from each other.

 

The actual platooning thing is likely to be shot down, i read somewhere a state legislature vetoed electronic platooning on their state roads.

What is more likely to happen is when the 65 speed limit mandate comes out companies who already have lane change warning devices on the trucks as well as front radar distance automatic braking, will 'smarten' those devices up to prevent a truck from trying to pass another truck going x amount of miles per hour slower, say 2 miles per hour or some such arbitrary number-- in effect causing a defacto platoooning effect.

Drivers who are caught on the wrong side of a double yellow line will be written up for safety violation at their company if not out and out fired. I have a video of a Prime driver who passed me on the double yellow, interesting thing was he slowed and got off at the very next exit 2 miles up the road, I assume because his qualcomm was blowing up with the company notifiying him they knew he crossed the double yellows and it set off all kinds of alarms back at the home terminal.

 

I was on a hot load up in Wisconsin running some unusual route, anyway i was intermittently speeding now and again in the hilly curvy roads, I let 'er drift up past the speed limit on the downills I admit. Got several qualcomm messages that day saying they knew I was exceeding the speed limit and to please hold it back to the speed limit.

The lane change sensor which is tied to the ECM which is also tied back to the Qualcomm, the company knows when you crossed the line without a lane change signal indicator (blinker) and they definitely know when you crossed a solid line and of course double solid lines. The sensor is on the passenger side of the vehicle looking down. When it sees the truck crossing back to the right over double yellow lines is when it reports back to the home hive this driver was on the illegal side of the double yellow lines. There would be no defense or excuse for that-- Well scottie was only going the exact speed limit so I had to get around him-- is not going to cut it.

In the case of the trucker who was trying to pass me at 65 in California, that was egregious speeding on his part.