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A Thread for Travel: Trips/Advice/Ideas

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St. Clown said:
Illinois's speed limits on the freeways are interesting. It's been a while, but when I was driving through the state with my buddy, on the way to St. Louis for the Frozen 4, their speed limit signs had two values. First listed was 65 MPH for normal vehicles, and then there was 60 MPH for the commercial vehicles, aimed at tractor-trailers, my friend told me. This action taken by the state, by default, makes the effective limit 60 MPH for all traffic as that state has a large number of haulers on their highways. It was wee bit frustrating during that part of the trip.
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There are a number of states that have truck speed limits. Indiana has 70/65, Ohio on the non-interstates is still 65/55, I think Texas still has some truck speed limits, and a couple other states as well. The biggest thing that will kill you are the regulators placed onto vehicles to prohibit speeds faster than a certain amount. They are inherently dangerous and easily disrupt the flow of traffic.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
There are a number of states that have truck speed limits. Indiana has 70/65, Ohio on the non-interstates is still 65/55, I think Texas still has some truck speed limits, and a couple other states as well. The biggest thing that will kill you are the regulators placed onto vehicles to prohibit speeds faster than a certain amount. They are inherently dangerous and easily disrupt the flow of traffic.
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For the most part, speed limited commercial trucks are only short-haul, interplant type trucks. Most long-haul trucks wouldn't have electronic max speed logic on them. I drove a truck that was limited at 62mph for a while, it didn't take long before we brought it in to get re-caled.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
For the most part, speed limited commercial trucks are only short-haul, interplant type trucks. Most long-haul trucks wouldn't have electronic max speed logic on them. I drove a truck that was limited at 62mph for a while, it didn't take long before we brought it in to get re-caled.
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The Sears vans are now regulated at 55 MPH. One of my friends has a Sears truck but had to get a new transmission so his does not have a governor. I guess they're trying to make them mandatory in trucks at 68 MPH. Looks like we won't be able to get past trucks that decide to clog up the road.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
The Sears vans are now regulated at 55 MPH. One of my friends has a Sears truck but had to get a new transmission so his does not have a governor. I guess they're trying to make them mandatory in trucks at 68 MPH. Looks like we won't be able to get past trucks that decide to clog up the road.
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I'm not sure what a Sears van or truck is. I was referring to heavy duty class 1 semi tractor-trailers. Speed limitors aren't in a transmission, they would be on an engine diagnostics and control module. Who is trying to make it mandatory? The government? Sounds like something those idiots would try to do. Anyway, anyone with a half a brain and the right computer program can bypass a speed limiter.
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
The Sears vans are now regulated at 55 MPH. One of my friends has a Sears truck but had to get a new transmission so his does not have a governor. I guess they're trying to make them mandatory in trucks at 68 MPH. Looks like we won't be able to get past trucks that decide to clog up the road.
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We already can't when the idiots try to pass other trucks going up a hill and end up going side by side for X miles.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I'm not sure what a Sears van or truck is. I was referring to heavy duty class 1 semi tractor-trailers. Speed limitors aren't in a transmission, they would be on an engine diagnostics and control module. Who is trying to make it mandatory? The government? Sounds like something those idiots would try to do. Anyway, anyone with a half a brain and the right computer program can bypass a speed limiter.
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Sears repair vans. Yes, they still exist. They also sometimes have to press the federal limits on how long to drive in a day.
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
That's my point.

Actually, in Arizona, they have signs for going up hills of minimum left lane speed 65 MPH.
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Your point made it sound as if the engine limiting will result in that. My point is it won't change a thing except now traffic stuck behind will just be slower. It already happens, regularly.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Sears repair vans. Yes, they still exist. They also sometimes have to press the federal limits on how long to drive in a day.
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The limits for time driving and rest time or down time are good, in my opinion. Truckers are so under the gun to get stuff from one place to another that they would go on even less sleep if they could. That would lead to dangerous situations.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Your point made it sound as if the engine limiting will result in that. My point is it won't change a thing except now traffic stuck behind will just be slower. It already happens, regularly.
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If anything, what it will do is it will extend this problem from just hills to everywhere on the highway.
 
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The weirdest speed limit set-up that I've seen was on my recent roadtrip through the Southeast.

We were driving from Miami (Marlins Park) to Fort Myers for the hotel that night and took US 41 (aka Tamiami Trail). Once we got out of civilization, the speed limit was 60, but 45 for night-time driving, presumably for alligators. Really freaking weird.
 
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burgie12 said:
The weirdest speed limit set-up that I've seen was on my recent roadtrip through the Southeast.

We were driving from Miami (Marlins Park) to Fort Myers for the hotel that night and took US 41 (aka Tamiami Trail). Once we got out of civilization, the speed limit was 60, but 45 for night-time driving, presumably for alligators. Really freaking weird.
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Texas used to have a statutory night speed limit of 65, but was recently repealed. A couple of other states have night speed limits.
 
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burgie12 said:
The weirdest speed limit set-up that I've seen was on my recent roadtrip through the Southeast.

We were driving from Miami (Marlins Park) to Fort Myers for the hotel that night and took US 41 (aka Tamiami Trail). Once we got out of civilization, the speed limit was 60, but 45 for night-time driving, presumably for alligators. Really freaking weird.
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US 1 through the Keys has parts that are 35 MPH at night for the key deer.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
That's my point.

Actually, in Arizona, they have signs for going up hills of minimum left lane speed 65 MPH.
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Huh. I don't recall seeing those here in AZ. I do recall seeing a good number of slower traffic keep right signs on major uphill stretches. Do you recall where in AZ you saw those signs?
 
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Bob Gray said:
Huh. I don't recall seeing those here in AZ. I do recall seeing a good number of slower traffic keep right signs on major uphill stretches. Do you recall where in AZ you saw those signs?
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I had read this on Wikipedia. Turns out it was not about Arizona, but rather New Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States#New_Mexico

I'm sure one of the several highway-casters will be able to show this sign.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
The limits for time driving and rest time or down time are good, in my opinion. Truckers are so under the gun to get stuff from one place to another that they would go on even less sleep if they could. That would lead to dangerous situations.
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I'm not going to argue that truckers should be riskier etc. and there are instances of truckers who were tired causing accidents...but it seems they get a disproportionate amount of 'feedback' on this type of issue...they haven't outlawed driving with a dog on your lap, being < 21 yo, eating a big mac, arguing with your wife or being distracted by kids in the backseat. Those all cause accidents too; reducing the efficiency of all truck transport in the country to avoid X amount of accidents (that aren't the majority of accidents) because said accidents are noteworthy is a bit of over reaction against a small part of the population because it would be "too hard" to address the other factors.

Nobody wants to see an 18 wheeler cause a fatality...that we were all able to gang up on truckers and force changes upon "them" doesn't mean we've made roads safe. We probably have more controls on truckers than gun owners at this point.
 
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