Safety groups call for 60 mph speed limiters on trucks

I’m all set , years ago had the ground from date port to ecm run thru a spare switch….

with switch off no unwanted communication with the ecm ……. Unless you want to pull the wiring harness off the ecm and tap in directly…….

 

There's going to be so much road rage. A lot more accidents.

 

And the accidents are huge. I don’t remember trucks leaving the road all tangled up 17 at a time before they were all chained together with speed limiters.

 

You’re not “coasting off a hill” in neutral. Any hill that big would mean you’d already be in a lower gear in manual mode. When you’re in rolling hills with the cruise on it will coast a couple mph over whatever you have it set at, then it will go back into gear and kick the engine brake on.

The technology has been around since about 2015. I’m sure if it was “illegal” the lawyers would’ve had a field day with it by now. They must figure a computer is better and more reliable at selecting the needed gear from neutral than a person would be moving a stick. Any input from the driver at all and the auto goes back in gear right away.

 

I don't know that it's illegal necessarily but it says quite plainly in the CDL manual that it should never be done.
Let's be honest, we all know safety takes a backseat to fuel mileage, just imagine the lawyers arguing back and forth whether saving that .001 mph to save the entire world is more or less beneficial than keeping the truck in gear going downhill.

 

B.C. MVA-197, RCW 46.61.630, ORS 811.495. B.C. Washington and Oregon it’s illegal for sure, and I didn’t see any of them that specified a size of hill, just hill. Every state has one, usually in the same section that made gear changes in intersections and railway crossings illegal.

 

That's another one I'd almost forgot about, I was taking my driving test and not shifting across the one railroad crossing and the old guy doing the testing said shift anyway or we'll be here all day. He also said don't touch that left pedal once you're moving either.

 

And don’t forget your “hard soled” shoes. I’m pretty sure you’d be on the ground in front of the truck before you hit the pain threshold on a treadle-valve, but that ones still there too. It’s a gimme an ####### if they haul your door open and find sock feet.

 

MORE FATAL ACCIDENTS.

 

Company automatic.
68 on cruise control.
72 on the pedal.
90 on a good downhill in gear.
I haven't tried downhill in neutral. I'm more used to manuals and that was a big no-no.