rhagfo wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 7 pages of this thread. I don't live, nor have I ever been to CA. If you are talking driving on a 2 lane road and the other traffic is going a certain speed then I would keep up with the flow of the traffic.
Illegal or not.
If you are driving to slow you are as much a hazard to traffic as if you were driving way to fast.
X2!
I find it reasonable to run at 5 to 10 over if that is what traffic is traveling at, and road conditions allow. Putting along at 45 to 50 in a 55 zone will quickly build a backup and in that backup there is likely to some impatient idiot!
If your rig doesn't feel comfortable or safe at at least the posted speed limit time to get it checked out and fixed.
Well you're stating two different things here: "reasonable to run at 5 to 10 over" and "Putting along at 45 to 50 in a 55 zone".
First, a speed limit is a LIMIT not a minimum. Just because "some impatient idiot" feels the need to go 10 over on a windy road doesn't mean I have to do the same.
Second, on windy roads, it's not the straight-away that is speed limiting, it the curves. And to suggest that a large RV should be able to handle those curves as well as a small sedan is going against physics. A large top heavy rig is never going to be able to keep up with smaller cars on such roads.
Third, on hilly roads, it's the stopping factor that is speed limiting. Suggesting that that RV should take the road at the same speed as the small sedan is going against physics. There is no way that RV is going to be able to slow down and/or maintain the same speed as that small sedan going down hills and do it safely.
Fourth, on any of these back road highways there is going to be wildlife, cross traffic, construction blocking the road, etc. A large RV needs more time to stop safely if they come across one of these things - going at the same speed as a small sedan is NOT going to provide them with that necessary time.
Fifth, I don't drive the same in my SUV as I do in a sedan - they handle differently. A curve I feel comfortable taking at 55 in a sedan, I slow to 50 in the SUV, because it's top heavy. Likewise, I drive differently with my clipper than I do in my SUV. I'm going to take that same curve at 45 or slower in the clipper because it is even more top heavy. Doesn't mean my SUV or clipper needs to "get fixed", it means it handles differently and requires a different driving personality. To suggest that they should all be able to handle roads and speeds the same is an accident waiting to happen.
