Posted on 08/26/2016 4:53:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation’s highways.
A new proposal Friday would impose a nationwide limit by electronically capping speeds with a device on newly made U.S. vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds. Regulators are considering a cap of 60, 65 or 68 mph, though that could change. Whatever the speed limit, drivers would be physically prevented from exceeding it.
The proposal, which comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, does not force older heavy vehicles to add the speed-limiting technology, but the regulators are still considering it.
The government said capping speeds for new large vehicles will reduce the 1,115 fatal crashes involving heavy trucks that occur each year and save $1 billion in fuel costs. …
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Actually, in Germany and most of Europe trucks are limited to 100km/hr on the Autobahns.
They stay in the right lane where they belong.
“A new proposal Friday would impose a nationwide limit by electronically capping speeds with a device on newly made U.S. vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds.”
Now, here’s the problem, people; unelected bureaucrats writing law. How the F gave them legislative power? It’s not in the constitution. These unelected bureaucrat pigs need to be slapped down hard.
Swift has been doing this for about 10 years.
It’s not limited, but if they detect your truck is going faster than 67 you had better have a good excuse for it.
Trucks NEED to exceed this speed. They need to exceed often 80 mph.
Between this and the incredibly low bar the DOT physical places on “diagnosis” of sleep disorders, the US Government is destroying the transportation industry.
I was “diagnosed” with Apnea based on honestly answering a couple questions like “If you lie down in the afternoon, do you fall asleep? Well duh.
A real sleep specialist tested me and found that my apnea is so mild he wouldn’t even treat it, yet because the Government was in charge, I would need to get a CPAP and spend over $1000 a year for a job in which I was a volunteer bus driver a couple times a year.
So, the organization I drove for lost a driver and I gave up my CDL.
This is just patently stupid.
Nobody has any obligation to comply. It’s the fact that the taken-over-by-leftists corporations comply that creates the problems.
It isn’t speed that kills, rather it is DIFFERENCE in speed that causes accidents. There will be chaos when more and more cars start darting around trying to get past the trucks.
All about making the executive branch more powerful. Are you for that too?
They did this to the railroads a half-century ago. They also did it to the airlines, until they were deregulated.
And I assume they’re limiting the delivery guys to working 29.9 hours under the Obama work week.
We just got a 10 mph bump up to 75 mph on major PA highways.
That’s a mere 62 mph. Not very competitive time-wise, but then again the social market economy is not about that.
You’re correct, and at the same time there are (hundreds of?) thousands of people driving who are totally unfit, drugged, illegals, skating by the rules.
Lets say that the trucks are limited to 68 MPH.
Fine, but what happens when they come to the next stretch of road that has a 55 mile an hour limit?
They do not slow down! They are going to make up the lost time, if they can. Any idiot should know this.
So they link it to the truck GPS to regulate speeds in all zones.
Well, that brings up another problem.
I have a Rand& McNally GPS and Escort Live, which most of you probably know is a web/GPS based system that works along with the Escort Radar detector,
The video part of the Escort Live system is presented to us on our Iphone.
OK. Both display the speed limit on the section of road you are traveling and both tell you to slow down when you exceed the limit.
Great idea, right?
No.
There are so many construction areas that they do not even try to keep up with them because they change monthly, weekly and sometimes daily.
There are sections of fourlane that have been posted 70 MPH for as much as two years that R&M still show as 65 MPH. Escort just found out about the one I usese regularly.
School zones are not depicted on either and if they were, how accurate can they be? School zones vary from one town to the next, and from one school to the next both is speed limit and the time of day.
It will drive everyone nuts.
This is stupid on the level of obummercare.
Redundant. Many trucks are already governed and won’t exceed a set speed, and many companies are monitoring vehicle speeds via satellite. So why do we need to spend billions to enforce a standard on some independents?
The latter is what the “self-driving” gobbledegook is about.
Yes, speed governors have been on trucks for a few decades now, and there are a myriad of techniques used to defeat them. They’re even on a lot of cars.
The left hates independent entrepreneurship. Therefore, they manufacture the “need” out of their dogma of centralization.
“Regulators are considering a cap of 60, 65 or 68 mph”
that would create highway carnage in Colorado. Outside of the cities, Interstate highway speeds are 75 mph, and usually minimum speeds when traffic is flowing are 85 mph, because State cops don’t usually ticket for speeding less than 10 miles over the limit. In practice, speeds are often in the 90 mph range.
Many companies already have governors on their trucks that regulate speed. Many of those drivers would love the proposed increase to 68 mph.
What is needed is a guarnteed daily minimum wage for drivers. Or they should plan a week off all at once and watch the country come to a halt.
If you got it, a truck brought. Time for them to get decent pay or go on strike.
Let the trucks do 65, but don’t allow them to change lanes.
I forgot about that, thank you.
Limiting trucks to a fixed maximum speed will ensure that everyone else is weaving around them, a sure fire way to increase the number of accidents.
No doubt the people who thought up this idea live in a city, ride bikes to work, and think the only trucks are the ones that come to Whole Foods.
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