Why do you sometimes see mega carrier trucks doing 70+ on flat grade?

Knocks out the cruise and the smart Jake too.

 

And he could backup far better than any driver at swift or werner combined.....

 

I’ve noticed tmc at 67, swift and Walmart at 70, jbhunt still at 62-65 lol. You can tell they’ve bumped up some of these bigger companies because they drive like THEYRE annoyed you’re going slow.

still pass them at 85 if their truck is having a attitude though. My favorite hill to pass drivers on is that Ranger hill on 20w in tx.

 

Swift lease/ops have been governed at 70 for years ...

 

I’m talking about the company trucks.

 

@Trucker61016

he used to be a trainer, but always felt looked down upon and undervalued, so he just does his job now.

 

Swift is 65 for company trucks. With extra 2mph for half an hour a day to pass. But strangely enough, my last truck gave me an 3mph for a full hour. Woo-hoo!

 

I’m a company driver at western express and my truck is governed at 72 I’m assuming I was lucky enough to get a truck from a lease purchase driver tht quit

 

A million mile kllm driver got fired for increasing their governed speed; our new elds, platform sciences, supposedly tattle on speed. The qualies record overspeed, but I’ve never been contacted about rolling down hill too fast.

Leases are set at 70, and they often forget to turn it down when giving them to company. I’ve heard 1 report of a company driver getting an ungoverned trk, but they took it to a company shop for a different issue and it came out governed. PasSmart is either 67, 68, or 70 for company; I’ve not gotten a straight answer from the shop and driver reports have been varied.

 

Werner used to haul tanks. They stopped about 15 years ago. Three drivers in one week drowned while installing load locks.