California Towing Speed Limit
While towing into and back out of California in July I noticed there were a bunch of signs saying the speed limit was 55 mph for any vehicle towing something. Does that limit get strictly enforced or...
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GordonThree wrote:
What's the big hurry?
I'm not independently wealthy or retired, so my vacation time is very precious to me. I'm not a smell the roses driver... none the less, I can't see any good reason to drive more than 60mph while towing.
Even at 60 I get terrible mileage with the combo in my signature.
I'm not against speeding. I speed when I'm driving unhitched, but steam doesn't start billowing from my ears when I run up behind someone doing the speed limit. They're not the problem, I am.
I usually don't tow much over about 65, but as I mentioned above on this particular day I was trying to cover 900 miles and had three young kids with me. I averaged a little under 11 on the way back versus more like a little over 11 on the way down so there was a mileage penalty, but not a huge one. Most of the trip I was under the speed limit in Nevada and Idaho, I was just curious about how rigid the California towing speed limit was as I expect to tow in the state again in the future.
