75 Speed Limit - How Fast
We are heading to Utah from NC. I-40 most of the trip with speed limits at 75mph along much of the way. I do NOT go that speed when pulling. What do you guys do? ETA: Carlisle HD Radials rated t...
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My stop distance is 700’(all big trucks). If you enter a highway without leaving me 350-500’ OR MORE you have done so illegally. If have to use the the brakes, all the more so. . A football field is the minimum SAFE entry ahead of a big truck.
You NEVER want a big truck behind you. Ever.
Travel speed of 62-mph, be doing 70+ coming down that entrance ramp. That’s the design. . Use slowing/braking to merge carefully.
You should act as do big trucks when your exit is ahead. Not less than two-miles before the exit, move to that lane. Signal on at 4/10s of a mile out.
Drop to 55-mph or lower before entering exit. Continue slowing to 45-mph OR LESS by using brakes and only then start to accelerate up to the side road speed.
Why? Because your rig is only under control with mild acceleration.
This is the road design. Entry & Exit are isolated lanes.
When you make a pass, begin it by accelerating in the right lane and move over 300-350’ out to the left lane (wait for other traffic to clear; hang back) at a speed a good 7-mph OR MORE than the other guy. Stay on it PAST your trailer rear being 100’ ahead of his front bumper. (Cancel cruise during this; Resume only after re-entering right lane).
This is the road design. Use it.
(Traffic overtaking you has exactly ZERO RoW).
.
I shouldn’t need to tell you to get down to temporary limits (45-mph construction) as soo as you see the signs. Same with being 5-under on ramps or flyovers.
I have “maybe” two extra-hard braking events in a year of driving all over the USA at 100k-120k miles per year. How about you?
My pickup is about ready for the second set of replacement tires now that it has a quarter-million on it. One brake job before I bought it. All else original. 15-mpg average pulling my 35’. (You?)
If you think it’s because I drive slow, you may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. There far more detail than is outlined above. (As with your job: took time to get good. Commuter miles don’t count as experience on The Big Road). How slow am I if you’ve passed me three times in 300-miles? (There’s method).
Ideal: Smooth, easy, no lane-changes or braking. Steady.
(The problems are emotional).
The fix is in skill acquisition. A plan. Discipline.
For you . . . not your passengers.
Average MPH as planning tool separates men from boys.
It is First Principle in how to write a Trip Plan.
A good truck driver can give you an ETA with 15” on each side, for a destination1,000-miles or more away.
It works being on vacation. As known limits produce freedom from worries.
.
You NEVER want a big truck behind you. Ever.
Travel speed of 62-mph, be doing 70+ coming down that entrance ramp. That’s the design. . Use slowing/braking to merge carefully.
You should act as do big trucks when your exit is ahead. Not less than two-miles before the exit, move to that lane. Signal on at 4/10s of a mile out.
Drop to 55-mph or lower before entering exit. Continue slowing to 45-mph OR LESS by using brakes and only then start to accelerate up to the side road speed.
Why? Because your rig is only under control with mild acceleration.
This is the road design. Entry & Exit are isolated lanes.
When you make a pass, begin it by accelerating in the right lane and move over 300-350’ out to the left lane (wait for other traffic to clear; hang back) at a speed a good 7-mph OR MORE than the other guy. Stay on it PAST your trailer rear being 100’ ahead of his front bumper. (Cancel cruise during this; Resume only after re-entering right lane).
This is the road design. Use it.
(Traffic overtaking you has exactly ZERO RoW).
.
I shouldn’t need to tell you to get down to temporary limits (45-mph construction) as soo as you see the signs. Same with being 5-under on ramps or flyovers.
I have “maybe” two extra-hard braking events in a year of driving all over the USA at 100k-120k miles per year. How about you?
My pickup is about ready for the second set of replacement tires now that it has a quarter-million on it. One brake job before I bought it. All else original. 15-mpg average pulling my 35’. (You?)
If you think it’s because I drive slow, you may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. There far more detail than is outlined above. (As with your job: took time to get good. Commuter miles don’t count as experience on The Big Road). How slow am I if you’ve passed me three times in 300-miles? (There’s method).
Ideal: Smooth, easy, no lane-changes or braking. Steady.
(The problems are emotional).
The fix is in skill acquisition. A plan. Discipline.
For you . . . not your passengers.
Average MPH as planning tool separates men from boys.
It is First Principle in how to write a Trip Plan.
A good truck driver can give you an ETA with 15” on each side, for a destination1,000-miles or more away.
It works being on vacation. As known limits produce freedom from worries.
.
