What if it Snows?

Have fun and be back to tell us about it... in one piece...

 

Hello sir!! I am sorry to know that you are over there... freezing your rear end in those wild areas up there...

 

Atleast it is not windy here like it was in michigan. That is one combination i dont like is very cold and windy. Does it snow in brazil? Or its hot there all year?

 

No snow in Brasil.... Average temp is 73 or so... but depends on the region... as it gets closer to the Equator line, it gets hotter... the Amazon jungle is very humid... the northeast is very hot.. the central region is dry... the southeast is mixed... cold, hot, rain.. the south is cooler but no snow.. never...
No hurricanes, no tornadoes or cyclones or earthquakes... wind can be strong but nothing like WY...
No Spring like in the USA... place where my dad used to live is always hot and hot HOT.... they have two seasons... summer and winter... but it is always hot all year long.. only difference is that it rains in the winter and it doesn't in the summer....
Temp right now in Cabo Frio is 76F...

 

Hey... I gotta go to bed... Y'all take good care out there and stay safe... back later...

 

One of the thoughts behind a split speed limit is truck air brakes actuate slower so they need more time to stop. Combined with the vast majority of trucks and trailers still run drum brakes. Disk brakes are just recently starting to show up on fleet trucks and trailers, which should improve braking capacity and shorten stopping distances.

In my opinion, the safety "benefits" seen by the differential are more than offset by the road rage type interactions with non CMVs caused by the differential. I could work with a 5 mph differential, 10 MPH is about the upper limit of what I view as safe.

Where I become the evil villain in the room is when I say they need to cut back the general populace speed limits to be no more than 5 (or 10) over the truck speed limits. An exception may be in areas with grades more than 4 or 5 percent. If the speed limit for trucks can not or will not be stepped up do not step up the cars.

That would be even more important if the government does mandate a top speed for trucks.
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CALI is once again it's own little special snowflake for the 55MPH limit. Here's what I witnessed happen:
When the Nationwide 55 MPH speed limit was lifted, Everybody was allowed to run a bit faster (even trucks in Cali) What ended up happening was, when the news came on it was not a question of if somebody got killed by a rag tag port type truck it was a question of how many would die in a given day. Then as now the cheap fly by night port trucks where a public hazard. They were marginally maintained to run 55. They literally started falling apart and killing people at speed over 55. To stop the public menace the state legislature passed a bill putting the 55 limit back on trucks. this was back in the early '90s. They had no choice cause the CHiP was not organized/empowered to proactively shut bad operators down.

Fast forward to now..... Cali has mandated state safety inspections on California registered CMVs. That has cleaned up a bunch of the worst of the offenders.

55 for trucks is a law in Cali, not a vehicle code like most states that have speed differentials. The problem is to change the laws the state legislature would need to pass a bill. I do not believe there is enough motivation to get one introduced let alone passed.

 

If it’s not an adventure. It’s not Wyoming.

 

Well we've had our first wrong way fatality collision on the new 202 bypass. That didn't take long at all.

 

Well, I'd rather have a woman smell like a truck than
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Um, nevermind.

 

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You know, I realized if I do get the job with Bayside Transport? I wont be posting as much. Maybe thats a good thing?