Why do YOU speed....if this is all you save?

You didn't answer the question.

 

My truck will do 65 GPS indicated SOMETIMES flickering up to 66.

I'm rarely speeding in any SANE state.

I go as hard as I can mostly to get a parking place in a truckstop.

 

Yeppers! Me doing the speed limit is the fault, right?

This has happened a couple of times.... A 62mph truck get out to pass a 61mph truck and cuts me off in the process then can't go anywhere. Yep thats all my fault isn't it? The best part is when they are doing this over a hill and neither of them can go anywhere holding up traffic. When they get to the other side they start the WV overdrive race down the other side. They're neck and neck going nowhere, the traffic is starting to back up behind us. Yep thats all my fault isn't it?

I'm sure you see where I'm going with this, right? Sorry I don't care what anyone thinks, trucks governed under the posted speed limit are a hazard.

 

^ that leads right into...

Last night I was running trying to get a decent parking place. I was clearly catching this other truck. Pulled out and got about 3/4 past him. And there he stayed.

I truly do not understand many of my fellow truckers.....

 

Is it correct to say that if you're at 80,000 or even 60,000 you won't average 75 if you run 75. And you won't average 62 running 62 that heavy. You'd have to run about 80-85 to average 75 when loaded. Empty on relatively flat terrain than you might come close. A loaded truck running 75 and an empty one running 62 most likely will not be much difference when you consider grades , mountains, etc.

 

Absolutely agree with that one^

 

This is another that drives me nuts! Six inch straights tend to get their attention when you crack the jakes on...

 

until all drivers are paid by the hour and not the mile,the speeding will be a problem
and even then--how many times have you had to get to one end of the city from the other to catch a shipper before closing?--
not to mention being dispatched without enough time to get there with out speeding--or jit loads

 

Sorry but don't want anything to do with hourly pay.