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Strawfoot wrote:

macira wrote:
Was the previous speed limit deal a big winner? No just a goofy idea then as well as now.

Highway fatalities dropped by a noticeable amount. I'd call that a very big winner. Had crude oil not dropped to $10-$15 a barrel, the speed limit might have stayed at 55.

As a transport driver who uses his own one-ton diesel to haul RV's, I can tell you that we are saving over $1300 a month in fuel costs by slowing to 55mph, from 70mph, driving an average of 10,000 miles per month. That's significant savings.

Most highway patrol officers will tell you that over 90% of traffic fatalities are a result of excessive speed. Yet all the people who are ticketed for speeding will tell you they didn't feel their speed was excessive. They feel that others are going to slow and they are forced to make sudden lane changes and bob-and-weave through traffic, tailgate, and cut off other drivers. I use to drive way too fast when I was younger but I now support slower speed limits. We should do all we can to conserve fuel.

Strawfoot

When it was 55 it mint people drove around 65 to 70 in place of now 80 to 90.But you could drive the right lane and be with the traffic.I notice that now like you some drivers are staying 55 to 65.And I just pick them and ran with them most of the time our last two trips.I know some states still have a 55 limit for trailers any way.It would not bother me to see it again.What is funny is most of the same ones that pass you will pass you again some where down the road.If you drive very far on like I 95 or any interstate.