How fast do you drive? AGAIN!!!

colliehauler wrote:
I never tow over 95 mph.:E

Neither do I. The speed limiter in the computer cuts me off at that speed

Speed may not have been a factor but weight on the steer tires. Some motorhomes with full freshwater tanks can be 300 to 400 pounds over weight on the left steer tire.

And it just gets deeper and deeper!

Driving the motor home towing or non towing, my comfort zone is 60 or what ever the lower speed limit is.

When I tow our fithwheel, I don't go over 65mph because that is the speed rating of the ST tires on the trailer.

Happy Camping

In that case, I always drive at what I consider to be the lowest safe speed.

It only takes a few seconds to search the web and find a video of a parked car being pulverized by another vehicle. Was the parked car driving too fast? Not all accidents are caused by speed. Not all tire failures are caused by speed. Sometimes stuff just happens. I do know your odds of being injured in a vehicle crash drop to almost zero if you just stay put inside a fortified bunker. But that kind of defeats the purpose of RVing.

C-Bears wrote:
Just because the speed limit is 70, that doesn't mean that you could not be "driving too fast for conditions" by driving 70.

If your unit is way overloaded in windy conditions you could actually be driving too fast for conditions by going the speed limit.

If the pavement is damp and you are going the speed limit you could still be going too fast for conditions.

There are all types of situations and equipment considerations when driving or pulling a large RV down the road that should dictate traveling under the speed limit.

While you are correct about conditions and driving, this is a matter of skill behind the wheel when something bad happens. Tractor trailers and MH's and cars and trucks experience blowouts on front tires all the time all over the country..AT SPEED. Usually the vast majority get to the side of the road safely. WHY? Driver knew how to handle the situation. It appears to me he braked and first probably let off the accelerator...the exact wrong thing to do. This is not about going 70 this is about being QUALIFIED to go any speed driving a vehicle too big for your skill level. Unfortunately there are way too many folks out there that I see, that in my estimation, based on how I see them handling their Class A's, have NO business being behind the wheel of that particular vehicle.

Just because the speed limit is 70, that doesn't mean that you could not be "driving too fast for conditions" by driving 70.

If your unit is way overloaded in windy conditions you could actually be driving too fast for conditions by going the speed limit.

If the pavement is damp and you are going the speed limit you could still be going too fast for conditions.

There are all types of situations and equipment considerations when driving or pulling a large RV down the road that should dictate traveling under the speed limit.

Not enough information to make that conclusion. If the truck was driving 55-60, then the MH may have been going 65, caught up to the truck, and was passing. As far as I can tell, we don't know the relative and actual speeds.

johnnyrv wrote:
thanks for posting. i had not seen this yet. i notice the mh driver was in the left lane whereas the experienced trucker was driving safely in the right lane. this post ties in well with a mh that crashed into a house on i75 in florida. most of these crazy drivers are in big class a motorhomes