Posted on 03/22/2008 2:13:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Whatever? Try reading the whole article! They are lowering the max speed allowed by the governor, you fool. Do you know what a governor is?
Great. All I ask is stay out of the left lane.
I wish TX would enforce the left lane law for passing only. It is now where passenger cars run in it and won’t move over when you come up to them....
Being right doesn’t give you the authority to question the MSM.
Do you know what a governor is?
Yep, Isn’t that what Bill Clinton once was?....
as with everything there are trade off.
Idleaire, the newest service of anti idle is a government subsidized publicly traded company their rates are about 3.00 per hour.
there is a point where they are cheaper on the surface than idling in a cost per gallon per hour of diesel.
my C-15 Cat engine uses about 1.5 gallons per hour to idle so at current prices its a $6 vs. $3 per hour choice.
also there is the consideration of the emissions and the wear and tear of idling an engine that is $16,000.00 to rebuild.
the most noteworthy offset is that to setup the system you lose about 1/3rd of the parking, there's currently a 20,000 parking space deficiency now with restrictions tightening every day.
I use and APU mounted on my trucks so I have 5KW of 110 voltage, a/c, heating, battery monitoring and can use it for one pint of fuel .50 an hour
They might as well repeal the law, I’ve never seen it enforced.
They might as well repeal the law, I’ve never seen it enforced.
I'm not a trucker, but almost took a job with them in Knoxville a few years ago. You seem to be giving investment advice or the Con of a system owner vs the consumer.
Does it benefit the driver in the long run?
I had no idea it was subsidized. I thought it was all private. I understand your post now.
the cost of slowing down is a decrease in wages. The time increases and somewhere there is a tradeoff between slowing down and driver cist.
Reducing speed to 55 will cause a depression as all costs rise precipitously.
This but a crude lefty attempt to reinstate the 55 mile limit
you've be listening to miss informed non drivers.
speed does not increase or decrease mileage run in a day, consistency is the key to distance.
I see drivers rip by me at 80+ five or six times a day on my travel days and they don't make anymore miles at the end of the day than I do sticking with it at 75 staying in the seat with a break or two.
They do burn more fuel running faster and stopping and starting though...
careful what you listen to especially if you're gonna repeat it as fact.
Nice turk. 300 gallons @ 4 bucks a gallon, $1200. Whew!
Isn't that a person who hires expensive hookers?
Oh you guys are so funny. It’s like I’m talking to bob hope and jerry seinfeld.
I want to be Jerry.
Why can’t the guy being passed take his foot off the pedal for a second or two to allow the passer to get over quicker. It’s almost as if it is an insult to be passed, so they fight it with all they have.
I dropped from 75 down to 62 mph on the cruise control...gets me 2 extra trips to work between fillups, at $10 per trip.
You are thinking like a truck driver. I’m thinking about your customer. Slowing to 55 is a 15% reduction in productivity.
When spread across all involved, the economy slows by pretty much the same speed as the trucks. Slow the trucks, slow the economy.
Cruise control. Governors. That’s all there is to it. Time is money and neither one wants to slow down. It’s even more complicated when you consider that one truck may be pulling a heavier load and so it slows down more on the uphill climbs. So if the heavier truck with the higher allowed top speed by the governor is trying to pass the lighter truck with the slower governor, you have a situation where one truck is faster downhill, but the other truck is faster uphill. Neither one is going to budge a single MPH.
Pride......... There are still a lot of courteous truckers out there but imo a lot aren't.
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