*If* speed limiters are required how will it affect you?

hare and tortoise syndrome

 

One of the big pushes here from companies is the cost of fuel, trucks speed limited to 100kmh (62mph) contributes to the bottom line. Fuel here in Australia is quite expensive at the moment, diesel around where I am is between $2.00AU to $2.25AU per litre. There is about 4.546 litres to the gallon - you blokes can work it out. Although I think US gallons are smaller than 4.546 litres

Some companies like Ron Finemore Transport have many of their linehaul trucks speed limited to 90 kmh (55mph). Simons Transport from Queensland have had their trucks speed limited at 90 kmh for well over 30 years that I know of - The Environment | Simon National Carriers

 

With all due respect. some times, and under some conditions, speeding tickets were a "cost of doing business.

 

Tickets of all descriptions. It was all a game we had to learn to play. Seems to me that’s why I had drivers licences in 6 different non-reciprocity states so I always had at least one with no points on it to give the insurance company. It was what it was and we drove on. The wheels started to come off when every town and county cop in the country got their own CMV enforcement divisions to line their pockets with like the States and Feds were doing. When the enforcement for profit programs sprung up at that level was when I decided I didn’t want to play anymore and quit operating in the US. Between ‘78 and ‘86 when I operated trucks down there though I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess at how many tickets I paid. Bailing drivers out, getting my ### bailed out. There was a downside to non-reciprocity states too. Between me and two drivers at least 2 or 3 tickets a month was a given. Todays safety manager types heads would explode at what was just another day truckin’ back then.

 

Even Jamie would need a couple of trucks to get some of them. It usually plants them pretty deep when two other trucks shove them in there at 105kph. You guys get the other show down there, Heavy Rescue 401? If you do have a look at that. In the some of the aerial shots of normal traffic on that highway you should be able to see some of that Onterrible style speed limited action going on with your own eyes right there. I know you people have had limiters on some classes and combinations forever. Something is different though, I see footage of Australia from different sources, and your highways don’t look like the lethal cluster#### ours turned into with the limiters. Maybe if they had done it before driver skills degenerated to “drive it against the speed limiter,set the cruise and steer to the best of your ability” it would have been different. What happened when they did is truly scary.

 

Point to any other job where law enforcement actively pursue you for a breach of rules, I seriously can't think of one and I have been in the transport industry since 1975

 

Yeah I have seen HR401, I preferred Highway Through Hell, my plans, if I ever get to Canada, is to drive that road

 

There’s lots of places out there more interesting to drive than the Coquihalla. Hope-Princeton, Salmo-Creston, Fraser Canyon and up through the Cariboo to Prince George. Can head to the Yukon from there, or turn left and go out to Kitimat and Prince Rupert. Albert Canyon and Rogers Pass. The list goes on, any of that makes the Coq look boring. When I moved out there I spent almost 4 years pulling b-trains or an 11axle bed set around and never left BC, Alberta and the two territories and couldn’t have been happier.

 

65 I can shrug off. Any lower and I'm gonna need a raise.

 

If you ever come to the states for vacation, I highly recommend you take a drive along Texas Interstate 35 corridor. ( aka= PanAm Expressway or Nafta hwy. ) from at least San Antonio to Dallas/Ft worth. Your mind will be blown. It ranges from 55 mph to 70 mph legal posted speeds. Average speed for 4 wheelers is 10-15 over that. Millions of cars 24/7 hundreds of thousands of trucks 24/7 running 3 lanes wide bumper to bumper. Many of them Canadian outfits that are limited to under the speed limit already. Hundreds of wrecks a day because there is only 3 ft between vehicles average and everyone is going 40 different speeds at any given time. Way too much and way too dangerous for law enforcement to handle. They just show up and sweep through the carnage.

Trucks limited to lower than car speeds and most likely under posted limits will make it 100% worse then it already is.