Are OTR truckers restricted from speeding?
In a trip over the weekend, we spent a few hours on Sb 95 from NC, through SC, into GA. What I noticed was every single OTR truck doing the speed limit or less. While not faulting the trucks and I hav...
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JRscooby wrote:
Yes, laws need to be enforced, can't have a driver running a extra hour to get home to family instead of sleeping in truck. OTOH, on every RV board I have looked at there is discussions about somebody drives his desk for 40 hrs in a week, then Friday night, loads family in vehicle he likely only drives twice a month, and "I'm not wasting vacation" for 400 miles.
This falls squarely under...2 wrongs do not make a right.
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see similar changes in passenger cars. I haven't read up on the details but the new infrastructure bill calls for drunk driving defeat devices on all new passenger cars...it would be fairly easy to use facial recognition to track non-commercial drivers.
The fact is truck drivers are a more logical first adopters. They drive several hours per day on a regular basis. Most non-commercial drivers only rarely drive more than a couple hours in a day.
