Governed Speed???

This ^^^^^^^^^
If someone rear ends a truck doing 55 MPH or more, they were obviously asleep, drunk, blind, or something else. What about when you are climbing a steep hill doing only 25 MPH?
I don't care if I was in a truck that could do 120 MPH, I wouldn't do more than 60 anyway.

 

I guess I would like some clarification on that statement... if you could legally travel 70 m.p.h. along the majority of your routes instead of 60, you would average about 100 more miles in a full day of driving.
More miles = more pay. Not only could you make more $, but if you like to run hard, you would also be able haul more loads per month. On a full day of driving say you need to run 600 miles before you take your rest break, you could save 40-60 minutes throughout your day, just by running 70.
Are you saying that you wouldn't want to be able to work less hours and earn more money???

 

Do you really make more money? Tire wear and fuel burn don't go up in a steady rate from say 40 MPH to 80 MPH, they go up in a a steepening line if you drew it as a graph. So just in costs alone no need to drive 70 MPH and eat up expensive tires and fuel, but for me its more a safety issue. That deer that jumps out, car that pulled out in front of me, tire that just blew, crash in front of me, or whatever it was that happened, I am closing on it quicker at 70 MPH to even react, and if i need to swerve or brake, it is going to go a lot better for me at 60 than at 70. I have driven for 35 years, big trucks for 32 years, I own 9 trucks, my daughter drives for me and is also my manager, I own and also part time drive my own trucks, but for some reason I like heavy rescue and towing so work for a friend driving his wreckers, and in winter I pretty well exclusively drive for him on his biggest truck, i see the crashes, far too many crashes, and all too often because of speed. While I live in Canada and we primarily use KPH, I understand MPH well, and my trucks are governed to 64 MPH (103 KPH) and i don't care if they are in a place with 110 kmh speed limit, or even the rare spot with 120 kph limit, they are told to never exceed 100. My drivers are all hourly, and i still save more money with them doing say 100 in a 110 than if they drove at 110 kph. When I drive my friends trucks I never do over 100 kmh (62 mph) despite them not being governed and likely could do 85 mph is my guess. If drivers had slowed down to begin with, very likely I wouldn't have been called out to a crash in the first place.
I lost my wife and other daughter 18 years ago because someone speeding hit and killed them. I raised my daughter now age 24, since she was 6, alone, and she has been to hundreds of wrecks with me. She doesn't speed either, we are a product of our experiences and past, mine means I prefer to drive slower, but arrive safely.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how much of this fuel servings topic is wrong and why is a myth. I hear all this talk about gearing etc etc. It comes down to one thing and that ONE thing all the time. The RPMs of the engine and the aerodynamics of the vehicle. . It takes a lot of energy to push against that curtain of air. Fuel savings is more about aerodynamics and RPMs then it is anything else. Absolutely amazing in this day of the internet that people still spread those myths.