"It's a law we can live with"
Posted on 04/28/2022 4:29:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
On Wednesday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a notice indicating that the agency will move forward with a rule to require speed limiting devices on commercial vehicles.
The FMCSA plans to propose that any commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight of 26,001 pounds or more be equipped with an electronic engine control unit (ECU) that will be capable of governing speed to a limit that will be determined during the rulemaking process.
...The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) opposes any attempt to require speed limiters, arguing that they “increase congestion and speed differentials between trucks and cars, which ultimately lead to more crashes. Additionally, arbitrary speed limits make it difficult for truck drivers to switch lanes to accommodate merging traffic at entrance ramps – or to merge themselves.”
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Today large trucks, tomorrow pickup trucks, next week it will be anything with wheels.
And the tyranny continues while the sheeple just follow along.
Maybe we should issue a maximum number of laws a politician can propose each year. Like one!
They will be easily flashed off the EEPROM and relegated to the trash heap.
Can you imagine fagboy as POTUS....I shudder to think of it.
Well shoot! This puts every truck on the road in the right lane. That’s where I like to ride - everybody passes me because I do the speed limit, listen to all kinds of music, and cruise. That’s just how I roll...
The real question I have is how many trucks are NOT going to make it up hills?
My second question is do the people who wrote this bill actually drive on interstate highways and Backroads, around trucks carry wide loads, heavy equipment, cement, BAGS of palletized cement mix...
Not a single clue, do these numb skulls possess!
Good luck adding that to my old Peterbilt. 40 pin ECUs don’t accept ELDs or any of their other crap.
"It's a law we can live with"
Sounds to me they're limiting vehicle speed rather than power.
>>Maybe we should issue a maximum number of laws a politician can propose each year. Like one!
Zaleucus’s Rule for laws should be brought back for regulations as well.
In big rigs, including our 45ft RV, if you don't get up enough speed, you will end up bogged down, behind the power curve, doing 15mph, especially out west.
Vehicles speed up on the downhill so they can make up the hill without slowing down a ridiculous amount.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While many unconstitutional federal government services are arguably a good idea, in this example of federal overreach (imo), it remains that the only power that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds to deal with safety limits such power to issues of rebellion or insurrection.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions [emphasis added];"
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it [emphasis added]."
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So not only are popularly elected federal "leaders" once again hiding behind non-elected federal bureaucrats in an election year, these "leaders" relying on bureaucrats to push their politically correct agendas, but career lawmakers are letting these bureaucrats get away with stealing state powers to dictate their edicts.
Supreme Court clarification of the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, also the writings of Justice Joseph Story, warn us against wide interpretations of that clause.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, in stark contrast to the feds now requiring speed limiting devices in vehicles, Story volunteered manufactures and road laws as examples of powers that the clause does not give to Congress.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"The question comes to this, whether a power, exclusively for the regulation of commerce, is a power for the regulation of manufactures? The statement of such a question would seem to involve its own answer. Can a power, granted for one purpose, be transferred to another? If it can, where is the limitation in the constitution? Are not commerce and as distinct, as commerce and agriculture? If they are, how can a power to regulate one arise from a power to regulate the other? It is true, that commerce and manufactures are, or may be, intimately connected with each other. A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 1073--91
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Next, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
As a truck driver of over 25 years, speed and power are vital to each other. Being able to maintain speed limit approaching an upgrade means less time getting up the hill and less fuel usage lugging uphill, along with less wear and tear on equipment. We have a hard enough time doing our jobs in a timely manner without nanny-state regulating every single second of everything we do.
Basically this is a move by the teamsters union to organize more truck drivers. Speed limiter‘s will force owner operators to leave the industry. Joe Biden is all about helping unions. Again they’re gonna stick a fork in the last American cowboy the trucking industry owner operator
I’m guessing that you’ve never driven a large commercial vehicle. I used to drive coaches for a camp. (think Greyhound bus) One of ours was limited to 70 mph. It was a challenge on some larger hills. If you hit it with some momentum, you could maintain some semblance of speed up the hill. If you lost that momentum, you were crawling up the hill at 20 mph. It made a huge difference.
I frequently drive a smaller commercial vehicle for my job. 15,000 lbs or so. This is a beyond stupid rule.
Torque? Low gear? I don’t understand the technique an e-truck/direct drive interesting. Maybe Im not understanding the transfer of direct power an electric motor and reduction gear will provide. The only experience that I have thats relatable is a diesel electric ship,
abd a hybrid camry, and my corded electric leaf blower.
How much extra wear and tear (and extra fuel) will be caused by whatever retarding method is used to keep under the limit when going downhill?
So you’re thinking Booty-Gig is gonna pass a law against Mexican Overdrive?
Here is one from the same mother, a different brother.
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The growth of special districts began in the Great Depression. In 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged the formation of special districts to skirt laws that limited the total amount of local debt or required voter referendums to issue debt. New Deal programs required states to create special districts, such as soil and housing authorities, to get federal funds.
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Engine brakes have been around for decades; their proven safety benefits far outweigh the very minimal detrimental effect they have on equipment. Further, the industry as a whole has been moving to fully disc-brake equipped tractors which have a far better safety and durability profile as compared to drum brakes - but this whole conversation is going a bit far afield.
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