How much faster do you drive to the speed limit?

I know its illegal is some states... But I know of a few guys that have radar detectors hidden in thier truck with a power kill switch for it. Its pretty easy to hide the detector eye in a grill.

 

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Ha - I have one of those trucks too.

 

I cant speak for now, but it used to be because Leo's didn't want to bother with them. Livestock can only be tailored for a certain length of time. If you get put loose because you got pulled over and other things are found, now the state/local has to find where to safely offload the critters.

 

Double stack 10 over minimum single stack 5 over under stack 10 under white volvo il +10.

 

I drive posted speed limit or 2 over.thats it.

Your not saving that much time

 

You'd be surprised. In theory, if you do 4 over for 10 hours of driving you're 40 miles further down the road than the guy who is doing the speed limit. That can easily equate to getting to your destination before or after having to take your 10 hour break.

Just yesterday a guy passed me. I noticed on his door his company was out of the same city that my load was coming out of. Then I noticed his unique seal matched mine. We were 80 miles from the destination. I found him whenever I pulled into my receiver. He was backing into a dock and I got the dock right next to him. But since he got there first he was unloaded first.

He arrived at the receiver less than a minute before I did but pulled away from his dock and was gone about 20 minutes before I was.

Then another time I was delivering automotive oil (in the plastic containers you purchase it in) to a receiver and literally pulled in 10 seconds before 5 trucks showed up in a big train. I was unloaded and gone in about 45 minutes so I know that 5th guy who got there less than a minute behind me was still sitting there 4 hours later.

Every second counts.

 

This is true. A 500 mile trip @ 60 MPH = about 8 hours and 15 minutes. Same trip @ 70 MPH = a bit over 7 hours. Every company I ever drove for made it clear we were NOT to log more than an average of 60 MPH. It's been a long time since I last drove. However, I know of several drivers that were finally fired because of their logged speeds!

 

That’s not true. It’s the driver’s responsibility.

 

Then it may be just a Texas thing. I KNOW the ranch I worked at was contacted by DPS to offload cattle after a rig was put OOS. We're also talking about 16 years ago.

 

All the time I’ve been around cattle and hauling cattle it was never the law’s responsibility. It’s likely they just know who to call if the trucker can’t get ahold of anyone.