Speed Limiters

Big brother wants you to drive faster, not slower (hence all the states raising the max speed limit) it's up to you how much of the cool aide you drink. Personally I'm not falling for their latest way of getting into our pockets.

 

But I will control my own speed. I don't need someone to govern MY truck and tell me how to drive it. That is my choice, not the governments. You can take all their regulation and control. That is your choice. I choose not to. If I choose to run 65 in a 75, that is my choice. The same as running 75 in a 75. But in the same instance, I'm not one of those idiots in a big truck that drive like a it's a four wheeler. I understand following distance, stopping distance etc.... You can slow trucks down all day long, that doesn't make them safer. Not when you are putting idiots in control of them. Or even bigger idiots controlling the ones in the trucks.

 

That's a lot of opinion relative to the amount of its substantiation. I hope you do not intend to imply speed limits are observed by any more than a small percentage of roadway users in any type vehicle.

Seems vague. Might they not have to stomp on their brakes because they're running 75 or so in a 55... or 65? Faster motorists like to believe they're never in anyone's way, but they never consider the slower traffic they block from passing even slower traffic, or that much of their ROW is stolen, and they are habitual thieves. Do you mean to imply many faster motorists do not recognize that a truck signaling a lane change means "speed up to block"?

 

If you actually drive a truck then you know what the heck I'm talking about. You can defend the slow trucks or the idiot, dangerous drivers of big trucks all day if you want. Over half the trucks on the road nowadays are just like the majority of four wheelers out there. They don't use their signals, they tail gate, they set in the left lane impeding traffic. I could go on and on. Supposedly these are professional drivers.

Just like the idiot today who passed me and darn near took the front of my truck off. If I'd not have stomped on my brakes. Then when I ask him about it on the CB he says F you. Started talking major trash to me. Until I told him I'll be calling his company and showing the dash cam video. He shut up and didn't say anything after that. What's those green and yellow trucks....Sharkys Transport or something like that.

It doesn't matter what speed the truck runs. It's the stupid SOBs behind the wheel that makes the trucks dangerous. It doesn't matter what four wheelers do. They aren't the ones who are suppose to be professionals.

 

Not sure where your getting your info, but FYI governers are put on equipment by the company, not the government.
Drivers have brought this upon themselves by not being trustworthy.

 

come on now, no need to call in on him. besides you know it wont do no good, I used to work for a company that had a number on the trailer all that happened when someone called in was, I got a letter checked a box that said no it did not happen and send it in that's it. stop pulling that elem school B.S. "you made me mad so im gonna tell" boo-hoo the funny thing is I bet that driver is not even thinking of it, and your still stewing

 

So we should just leave dangerous drivers out on the road? I have a dash cam video that shows he drives dangerously. So by your definition then, the dude that smacked into my truck, tearing my mirror off, I should just let go to, huh? Obviously you don't own your own truck. I don't have a company that pays the repairs or pays the tow bill or puts me in another truck when some idiot that don't know how to use his mirrors smacks into my truck. Or some driver that is texting or reading or watching TV with his feet propped up, not sure which lane he wants to drive in. There is no call for a driver to be straddling the middle lane or weaving back and forth between the two lanes. If you think that type of driving behavior is fine, then that says a lot about the type of person and driver you are.

I'm not stewing about it. I have a dash cam to protect me and my property not only from 4 wheelers or animals, but also from ignorant truck drivers that care only about their little world and not about anything else.

 

Back in the 70's I had gone down to the office to see when I was leaving. While setting in the office the boss man got a phone call from a 4 wheeler complaining about one of his trucks driving though Arizona. Boss man got our attention & put the speaker phone on so everyone could hear what was being said asking the fellow to repeat so that he would be sure to get the correct information.

The man did so telling that truck # so & so was driving way to fast. That he had been driving 75 MPH on I-10 & this truck had passed him nearly blowing him off the highway. So he had sped up & caught him to see how fast the truck was going saying it was going a steady 90 to 95 MPH."

He thanked this man for calling him in a kind tone saying, "I really appreciate you calling & letting me know the speed my driver was going. When he gets in I promise you I will have a long talk with him about this matter. And the first thing I will tell him is I know that truck will run close to 120 MPH & if he is not going to drive that fast I will be putting someone else in this truck."

All we heard them was the phone slam down.

Them the boss man said, 'Well, can you believe that, he did not appreciate anything I said?"

Of course today a trucking boss would be sticking his neck out doing this. The good days of trucking has passed us by while the truck drivers are completely different too.

 

The speed limiter law has faced a series of successful court challenges in Ontario and Quebec. As far as I know, neither province is currently enforcing it because of these winding government court appeals.

The basis of striking down the law is essentially that the provinces can do as they please within their borders, but they cannot mandate what is legal on vehicles from other jurisdictions.

In my province, the speed limits on divided highways is 110kph, or 70mph and the laws in a separate part of the country dictate that I cannot achieve full speed on the highways in my own jurisdiction, which is a substantial overreach. If I can't vote in their provincial elections, why can they make business decisions for operators outside of their electoral boundaries?

No one denies that a tractor with an Ontario or Quebec plate could be compelled to limit their speed to 105kph or 65mph. They can. They will.

Daytime running lights are a similar situation, except that they are mandated by every province and thus any Canadian owned vehicle past 1990 must have them. I doubt an American truck registered in the USA could be compelled to install them, but an American who moves here with his vehicle MUST, in accordance with the Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (1 0 8 )

Until a federal law or miraculously all 10 provinces agree, I'd say the speed limiter law is dead in the water here.

 

You mean to say in places where you cannot vote they cannot have laws saying what you can or cannot do?