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To: Ransomed

>>Some slow down and speed up going up and down grades, some don’t.<<

If one truck is hauling a load of light bulbs he won’t vary much but if the other truck is hauling a full load of heavy product then his speed will vary. Not everyone is a successful owner operator with a large horsepower engine in the truck.


84 posted on 07/20/2011 10:07:00 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: B4Ranch

Oh, I know. I think the truckers are way less likely to be idiots, I think the majority try to do the best they can. I do think that things like having a computer record speed that goes over a certain mandated speed perhaps causes more problems than it solves. I think the food lion trucks were mandated to not run over 61 for a minute or it would be recorded.

I tried to find the national average for truck traffic on 4 lane interstates, but my google skils are weak. 81 runs 19-40% truck traffic, according to VDOT.

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92 posted on 07/20/2011 10:23:48 AM PDT by Ransomed
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