Walmart driver at 20 mph over speed limit, investigation ongoing about before on duty

i dont want to pay fines, nor kill anyone

but tell me joe, you drive into NYC

coming down the Verrazano bridge into brooklyn, at the bottom of the bridge, it is a construction zone, the speed limit is 30mph

i have not seen anyone doing less than 55 thru there

coming across alabama about a year ago, 82 going east or west had about 20miles of 45mph construction zone, at night, i never saw anyone doing less than 65

in new mexico a few years back, they were doing construction along 87 going into Radon, speed limit was 45, again, no one less than 70mph

tucumcari, a few years back, going east along 40 from Albuquerque, they had a 45mph construction zone, i never saw anyone doing less than 70

now, i am not encouraging anyone to exceed any speed limit anywhere, i firmly believe we should all obey the speed limits, for the reasons you stated

but to make it sound like some type of capital offense was a bit much, many times, there is no one there, the road is no different than any other part of the road, clearly safe to maintain the regular speed limit, and drivers (cars and trucks) do exceed speed limits in construction zones

if someone is working, i generally go SLOWER than the speed limit because of safety reasons, not because of some sign

 

Yes but now is not the time to be promoting going faster through a construction zone because there WERE other cars around, the road probably was different, and it was clearly unsafe to maintain the regular speed limit with the traffic ahead.

You really should save your rebel driving advice for another time and another thread, as a suggestion. In this case it was a "capital offense" to be speeding. In the other cases you mention, perhaps not so much... perhaps.

 

i am not promoting going faster thru construction zones

just saying its not a capital offense like some are making it sound like

and just throwing out wild scenarios, if this limo driver was doing what limos do coming to a construction zone, he probably darted out in front of walmart (like most 4wheelers do when they see traffic) and was trying to find that "hole" and walmart was cruising to slow down into the construction and was cut off by this limo

not trying to defend him if he is wrong,, but we have all had this happen to us, you come into a line and from the middle lane comes this car, which you have to abruptly brake (he had to make it into the hole before the truck got there)

it would explain the limo being hit on the side and not a complete rearend hit

 

OK EZX, that sounds reasonable I guess.

 

yes, Vehicals do dart out. That's why they have such slow speed limits. Had Wal Mart been doing the proper speed limit as he should had this would be a none issue, never been in the news and everyone would still be living. No excuse for 20 over. He should go to jail for a long time. He and drivers like him are what gives truckers a bad name. If the speed limit says 45 he should had been doing 45. not 65 not 46.

 

If he did 45 on the nj turnpike he'd get run over everybody does 60-70 on that road including the construction zone i ran cranbury nj a lot and never never seen anyone running 45.

 

How's he going to get run over? He's driving a 75 ft long semi......people are going to run him over ? Please....people are more apt to avoid you anyway they can, use your size to intimidate( in a safe manner, like stay the $&@ away from me), not think like a 4 wheeler.

 

Not the 4 wheelers the trucks anybody whos driven on the nj turnpike knows what im talking about trucks are hauling through there.I drive 55 through the construction zone and trucks are flying by me and right at my back bumper.