mkirsch wrote:
Used to travel a stretch of I-80 in Ohio from Cleveland to Toledo where trucks had a speed limit of 55 and cars could go 65. Seemed to me like it was an accident looking for a place to happen because vehicles were constantly pulling out to pass; you couldn't just find a "groove" and stay there unless you wanted to putter along at 55 with the trucks.
At 55 to 60 mph, semis and lots of trailers will overtake me -- even in California. Fast 65 mph in California, I would see them by side with the highway patrol later on. Seems my sweet spot for best mpg too at these speed ranges.
I had a few incidents of sway, buckling, trailer jump, high winds lift on trailer and I dread to think what would have happened had I been going faster on those times.
