slow moving vehicle sticker

“Your 100% missing the point, and should check with many of the states DOT's and Highways Patrol offices in terms of resetting speed limits to reduce accidents. Many speed limits are being increased to increase safety.”

Let’s see what is really happening here… safety is not increased, it is only changed… most often a choice between fewer accidents with higher dollar lose and higher death and injury rates… caused by the speed differential of so many vehicles traveling well above the posted speed LIMITS…

There are so many that ignore the speed limits that it cannot be policed well..

These speeders are creating a serious safety problem because of the speed differential they maintain causing a lot of braking and lane changing… blaming the legal driver is nothing but self-justification for your illegal activity…

It is suggested to up the speed limit to minimize those speed differentials and the resulting accidents even though damage risk is much higher…

In reality it is them just throwing their hands in the air, and giving up on enforced safety, by allowing the speeders and those that have no respect for following the law to establish the speed…

You can’t enforce the pot laws… to many violators, not enough police… so the answer is to decriminalize it, tax it, approve it for recreational use… it’s the same thing, same mentality…

Like those that personally choose to speed (and it is never done personally for safety, that’s too funny for words)… they and the pot users numbers have or are growing to the point of being able govern the majority…

Imagine that in the name of safety we can now or soon will be legally allowed to speed, while getting near drunk and smoking some recreational drugs… how great is that…

Water-Bug wrote:
Most trailer tires are speed rated at 65 mph. How is increasing the speed limit increasing safty? Trailer tires aren't even rated for the current 70 mph limits.

Studies have shown that a higher speed limit reduces the number of drivers going incredibly fast.

We are 75mph here in Idaho and looking at some 80 areas, Utah and Texas already have 80 areas.

I agree trailer tires need to catch up to modern speed limits, but there is a big difference in doing 55 in a 70 and doing 65 in a 70.

Most trailer tires are speed rated at 65 mph. How is increasing the speed limit increasing safty? Trailer tires aren't even rated for the current 70 mph limits.

The standard Slow Moving Vehicle sticker's use is often described in law and frankly if you are doing 55 MPH you should not be wearing one. In some states it is not to be worn over 20 mph or 45, or ___ (different speeds in different states).

I rather like the bumper sticker you put on your towed.

"Sorry I'm not going faster but... I'm pushing this big motor home as fast as I can".

Or somethign

Veebyes wrote:


I'm giving you a heads up Bumpy. I'll be passing through your state later next month. Lucky for you most of the roads I'll be using are 4 lane so you should have no problem getting around me as I drive so much below the speed limit.:)

as long as you dawdle in the right lane on 4 lane roads, no problem generally. My issue is if somebody is driving 55 in a 65 zone, I "assume" there is some reason that they are doing that. if they drive 63 in a 65 zone either their speedometer is off, mine in my highlander reads about 3 mph fast, or they are afraid of the big bad cop in the median somewhere ahead of them, who won't pay any attention to them if they drive 2-3 over the "limit". and if I decide to pass them I might have to speed up to a ticket inducing speed to get around them in a reasonable amount of time. the one going 55 can easily be passed.
bumpy

~DJ~ wrote:
Here you go.

that sounds like a plan. legal in all 54 states.
bumpy

Here you go.

Bumpyroad wrote:

Veebyes wrote:

On the serious side, no, I am not one of those doing 55 in a 65 zone. I am more likely to be set at around 63/64, the speed the truck gets into & stays in top gear comfortably.

now that is the type of person who infuriates me. dawdles along at one or two mph under the limit blocking traffic from moving at the legal speed. the fuzz gives us 65, either drive it or get out of the way.
bumpy

I'm giving you a heads up Bumpy. I'll be passing through your state later next month. Lucky for you most of the roads I'll be using are 4 lane so you should have no problem getting around me as I drive so much below the speed limit.:)

Water-Bug wrote:

ah64id wrote:


Going 20 under (55 in a 75) is just as dangerous as 20 over.

You obviously never took physics. An impact at 95 mph is a heck of a lot more dangerous than an impact at 55 mph. The incidense of impact at 55 and 95 may be equal in number but not in the end result. Energy=massXvelocity. If you nearly double the velocity, the energy discharged at impact nearly doubles also.

Your 100% missing the point, and should check with many of the states DOT's and Highways Patrol offices in terms of resetting speed limits to reduce accidents. Many speed limits are being increased to increase safety.

Yes the impacts are generally worse, but there are FEWER of them when the split in speed is closer.

The point is to PREVENT accidents...

Lowsuv wrote:
Because a " slow moving vehicle " triangle is not legal in all 50 states for this purpose the RV bumper could display the DOT approved reflective tape instead ..

I thought that was to signify a certain weight? Or is that only on cargo trailers?

ah64id wrote:


Going 20 under (55 in a 75) is just as dangerous as 20 over.

You obviously never took physics. An impact at 95 mph is a heck of a lot more dangerous than an impact at 55 mph. The incidense of impact at 55 and 95 may be equal in number but not in the end result. Energy=massXvelocity. If you nearly double the velocity, the energy discharged at impact nearly doubles also.