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pnichols
Oct 07, 2013Explorer II
locster wrote:
With a 24ft class C, should I follow all road signs and speed limits for trucks on the road?
From a "legal" point of view, no ..... it's not required.
Taking a good old fashioned physics point of view, the answer would be "yes".
A 24 foot Class C reminds me, weight-wise and size-wise, of the common delivery truck you see doing deliveries in cities/towns and between cities/towns on highways. Would you be OK with them traveling 65 to 75 miles per hour around you when you were only in your little tiny (compared to them) sedan, SUV, or pickup truck with your family? I wouldn't. When we do see delivery trucks traveling at those speeds, we stay well away from them when traveling around them in our sedan or pickup truck.
We travel at 55-60 miles per hour in our 24 foot Class C. Of course it "feels" very stable and controllable to us at 70 miles per hour, but we understand physics just well enough to be wary of what could suddenly happen at those speeds with that much size and weight.
By the way, your fuel mileage will be much better traveling at lower speeds in a 24 foot Class C ... or any other large vehicle for that matter.
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