Effect of weight on braking for trucks.
Instead of further morphing the other thread, I thought it would be interesting to discuss the effect of weight and speed for trucks since we obviously increase our weight when we add TCs. Obviousl...
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JimK-NY wrote:
The Montana speed limit on open Interstates might be up to 80 mph, daylight driving only, but that is for cars, Suvs, light trucks. Heavy trucks are restricted to a max of 65 mph.
No way am I going to drive my truck camper at 80 or even past 70. When I upgraded to Rickson 19.5 wheels and Firestones, the max speed rating for the Firestones was 70.
Nobody said you need to drive 80 with a TC. Anything you can do to reduce the difference would be helpful. And ... if you want to drive really slow, it would be safer to avoid the interstate when possible.
Fwiw, there isn’t a statewide night time limit that is different than the daytime on interstates. The heavy truck limit is 70 for day/night as well.
https://www.mdt.mt.gov/visionzero/roads/speedlimits.shtml
