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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wa8yxm wrote:
One of the folks I chat with is a Trucker today (IN fact a few of 'em but this one near daily) He's been like 30 minutes from home when the clock says "Park for 10 hours" and he has to park or else. That's the electronics on the truck. Auto tracking and position reporting and such. This is the kind of thing that "Enforces" speed limits now days.
So when you have 3hr on the clock and you are 3.5hr from home...you couldn't plan for a place to stop?
If you give people a 0.5hr fudge factor, they will use the extra time and then complain that leaves them 20min from home.
Last month we were in Germany escorting a tour group and due to some delays, the bus driver started getting concerned 3hr before we were scheduled to get to the hotel because he was running out of hours. It wasn't a surprise where he had no clue and suddenly the bus shut down.
