Hello, I have a question.

then that should have all been taken into consideration before they fired him?

but he did say that he was rolling at 80 mph as well, and knowing a bit of Swift, their trucks do not typically do 80 mph on level roads. so he had to have been coasting (and he admitted to it) maybe down a mountain or hill.

tough to have been fired, but hey, they had him dead to right.

that event recording captured his over speeding.

not really much else to say, when one admits to something, don't you think?

 

Our trucks are maxed at 64.5
So conditioned am I that at 70 mph I know something ain't right.

 

Here ‘s a different angle on this.
If These trucks are programmed and set to run a certain max speed and no more. (Proven to work everyday when you are out there foot flat on floor right palm of hand pushing leg at knee grimacing in pain cause you cant get above 64.7589 mph.) than if you just happen to go above their so called speed limit requirements wouldn’t it be their fault for failure to maintain safety equipment? Cant you just mark it down on your pre or post trip? Lol!

 

We get a "you've been a bad driver" letter in our mailbox along w a copy of any corresponding camera shots for a so called "coaching" session...lol
I just tell em after 45 years of truck driving that I've got bigger fish to fry in the safe operation of 80 thousand lbs. of hazardous materials.

I don't allow a 22 year old cubicle worker whose sole responsibility is to look at 12 second video clips to ruin an otherwise enjoyable day of trailer truckin...

 

All this threads on this speed limiter stuff just is mind boggling why no one has tried to call them out on the bs or beat them at their own game.
They tell you while pounding chest that “our trucks are set to only be xx.xx mph max and there is no way u can exceed it the engine computer will not allow it. However when and if you do exceed it you well be terminated” They are setting you up for failure.
Call them out.
Put it on all pre-trips “this truck may exceed limited speed due to defect”
Or something like that. Lol.

 

Any time the brakes are used other than a complete stop you waste fuel.
And no it;s not the brakes wasting fuel it's the reason for the brakes that burns fuel,
So if the TPS voltage is at idle parameter and no braking event for a period of time you are saving fuel.
The way I see it you are saving money ''actual'' coasting Now if you are using the hill to overspeed the truck and jamming the brakes on for a corner or such then Yes you are written up.
I don't need a camera to know how you are using the truck.

 

i worked for a company, long gone now, (in fact, Celadon bought them out years ago), that had a speed limiter. some drivers (it was mostly all the southern boys) had found a way to wire up the trailer clearance blinker switch, into the transmission, that would by-pass the speed limiter.

they all got caught, and were all suspended for a couple of weeks each. we northern guys had to cover for them, and frankly, we were making a killing doing so, thanks to thier stupidity.

the company made sure to "prevent" this from happening again.

so now, i ask you, if a driver finds a way to by-pass something, and until the company discovers it, either through the guys talking what they did, or through the computer sending signals via the qualcomm, how are they supposed to know?

i should point out, this speed by-passing the guys did at my former employer, did this long before all trucks had all this computerized crap....which it actually took "word of mouth" that they got caught....

so, how would that have been for the company to have, "failed to maintain safety equipment"..????

the failure in this situation (the o/p) was driver failure to maintain control. really again, no argument nor debate about it.

 

I would think the big deference in that case is the old joke transponder that screwed into the speedo gear on the trans was not contolling throttle position, fuel rates, boost, engine brake activation, cruise control, idle time, and service brake activation in some cases. It only sent via satellite speed events. It didnt control the truck for you. Therefore it really wasnt safety equipment. It was just a monitor. That is why they were called tattle tales.

 

PAY me by the hour then and I will do whatever you want. If you are going to put me on a performance type pay then I want to perform. Name another industry where you are on piece work and told how many pieces to make even when the LAW allows you to make more.

 

I’m thinking mostly it’s not exactly safe to kick it out of gear and roll 80 down a hill.
But rolling anytime out of gear and over most post speed limits is certainly going to earn you a driving award but it won’t be a safe driving award.