truck speeds

Also most companies have it in black and white that if you tamper with their settings, and you get caught you will be terminated from employment. ie. company driver position. Just saying

 

Being an ex-triple digit hauler back in the day myself, and now driving trucks governed between 65-72, I don't have a problem with being "controlled". I make 60K + a year, work a 55 hour week, and get to see lots of pretty legs in short shorts puttering along while you big dogs rip up the left lane, risk speeding tickets, blowing tires and meeting your maker if something goes horribly wrong.

Believe it or not, you get used to it. It's not all that bad, and the general public enjoys sharing the road with us. What a concept.

 

nothing my boss loves more than seeing on of his trucks wide open in the hammer lane guaranteed to get a big smile and a thumbs up

 

I don't think that a single truck in the fleet at work is a triple digit truck. They would get close but not to that magic 100mph number. We have a KW 900L that is geared so that it is rpm limited to 95 mph. I get paid by the hour so I'll get there when I get there.

 

Holy crap! How do you get a pic of that?

 

camera, couldn't sit back far enough to show the air ride gauge was close to 90psi

 

and NO I wasn't going down hill

 

It's not done by satellite. The speed is set by the software hookup under your dash. You open the program up just like you do now with a user name and password.
There you can access the speed and other engine settings.

What you are talking about Phil is called Driver Rewards. You can select the max speed and then set the parameters on fuel economy. For example every 0.2 mpg you drop, you lose 1 mph. As your fuel economy improves, it goes back up. Company's like WestSide Transport use that setup. Most of the drivers are at the minimum because they can't keep their foot off the floor. But if you use it responsibly, you have 70 mph that will last for a pass. I think my truck lasted half a day before the speed started dropping, lol.

I've always had 74+ mph trucks until this company. Produce, meat, livestock need fast trucks. When I run produce across I-10, I would run about 78 mph across west Texas to CA. Trucks would pass me regularly like I was standing still. Speedometers only go to 80 mph, but I think I hit the triple digit mark. No truck needs to go above 80 mph. They do it on I-10 because it's flat straight ground pretty much.

This is my old 04 Volvo...

 

Can't DOT, using your logbook, look at where you left from and where you are and make a determination you were speeding and cite you without having to catch you speeding?...I thought I saw this happen to someone on IRT...

 

Sure they can. But a good logger knows to average his speed about 3 mph below the posted speed limit. I've heard of drivers compressing logs and getting speeding tickets because of it. The same with what you said. Another is toll roads. They know how long it takes to go from one plaza to another.