75 Speed Limit - How Fast

BackOfThePack wrote:

MFL wrote:
The GOOD NEWS...you are in the Fort Worth area!

Jerry

Nope. I’m all over the US. With experience you can’t hope to match for vehicle type, weather, roads and loads. And it looks (again) with understanding of the rules you ignore when convenient.

You one of them runs at too high a speed into a construction zone to “get ahead” of the big truck. Jam yourself in front of him as he tries to keep a reasonable distance? And you’ve attached your nose to the hindquarters of the car ahead of you. Who has done the same again, and again, seven cars ahead? No braking distance at all?

The Midwest beats the South any day for intelligent drivers. As a class, they’ve all but disappeared (farmers & ranchers used to be among them; not any more). Connecticut is — generally — the state where skill & vehicle & ROW best come together.

Indiana doesn’t have the worst drivers. But they’ll take advantage of the lower truck speed limit to cut over too late, brake, and exit the highway. Enter a single lane. Even accelerate to do it.

If that truck driver had to brake to avoid hitting you the “accident” won’t be his fault.

If it’s me, I know how to keep my truck upright and lane-centtered to come to a controlled-stop. It WON’T be with you jammed under my right Steer tire. You’ll be somewhere other than on the road is my guess of how it’ll go.

Unlike you I have a family who expects me to come home. Also unlike you I have devices recording all that I do. A medical card. HOS regulations. I must daily certify the vehicle is safe to operate. Etc.

And I’ve gamed out how to control a situation with the least damage.

Whether or not you go home is up to you.

Know the rules. Stay inside them.

For an RV’er, ones at the helm of the LEAST capable vehicle out there.

With the least capable driver (he’s always the new guy). On a two week vacation you MIGHT have worked out the rhythms by the time you get home.

Every one believes that they are good drivers.
The differences between best and worst are tiny.
At speed, it’s all about vehicle separation.

Use ROW — and separation — then the habits become natural.

Having a trailer behind you shouldn’t occasion ANY CHANGES WHATSOEVER.

But RVers are bad drivers. How do I know? Just read here about “engine power”. And NOTHING about steering control or antilock trailer disc brakes. “Payload” and “Tongue Weight” and “Tow Capacity” and other non-existent (imaginary) “concerns”.

What’s the RVer answer to what they think is a bad TV? Get a worse one.

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Not quite correct there are a lot of "depends" in ROW. How do I know? Twenty five years county patrol, zero accidents but investigated a ton. Then bought a class 8 when I retired and ran as O/O under the same conditions you quoted, HOS, Sat tracking (I leased to a large co)
Again zero accidents, sold after 750K due to medical issues.

You and I know in the class 8 you leave some space and someone is going to take it. The safe driver, what ever hes driving, needs to be driving 1/4 mile or more ahead and adjust your driving by whats happening way up there. Yes merging into traffic has become a lost art in the it's all about me world.