"Twistedhed" wrote in message
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Your podunk leo friend is a tragedy...he must be a local cop of a small
town.

No he just got a promotion and is in charge of security at the airport.
Before that he did road patrol work for a number of years.

ALL HP officers are well versed in such law regarding carriers and
laws pertaining to the road.

You know all the HYW cops? I talked to a real one and he says otherwise.
There is a big difference between knowing the ordinary motor vehicle code
verses the very specific regulations that govern interstate and intrastate
trucking.

The DOT is for getting particular. The HPs,
whether county or state, ALL "mess" with the truckers and actively
enforce speeding truckers in addition to cars.

Tell that to the buggers doing 70+ MPH in Georgia passing me like I'm
standing still. Some of those mothers must be going 80 down the hills.



The other thing that I have to give the truckers
is it sure doesn't make much sense to have

trucks going 55 MPH, posted truck speed limit,
when 4 wheelers are doing 70 MPH,



Learn yourself about stopping distance. The difference between the two,
the truck vs. the car, should be more than enough to satisfy this issue
that "doesn't make sense" to you.

So the truck drivers aren't smart enough to leave more following distance
when they're speeding? Gee some of them don't even do it at 55.



It would make more sense for all the traffic to

be doing roughly the same speed.

And we can drive the same vehicle, live in the same cookie cutter
houses, and wear the same uniform,,er, clothes.

I don't know about you but IMHO it would be safer if we didn't have the
frequent lane changes. Every time somebody changes lanes there is the chance
they don't look first and then bang, and that goes for both 4 wheelers and
18 wheelers. Having everybody doing roughly the same speed would greatly
reduce the need for passing.

It's not the truckers causing the problems on the road. It's people in
cars that don't understand big trucks need almost the length of two
football fields to stop safely at the speed limit.

The truckers are as much to blame as the drivers of the 4 wheelers. I've
personally seen those huge chrome grills completely filling my rear window
too often. If they fill my rear window they are MOST DEFIANTLY TOO CLOSE. I
just had to put up with this B.S. on 401 the past couple of days on a trip
from Detroit to Woodstock Ontario Canada. I'm doing 100 KmPH, the posted
limit, but oh no that wasn't fast enough for the truckers who were doing
routinely 110 KmPH to 120 KmPH. I had them just 4 to 5 feet off the rear
bumper of the rental car, then they pass me by cutting me off by leaving
about 5 feet between me and the end of their trailer when they serve back in
to my lane. The satisfaction I get is when they end up in the ditch on the
side, or in the median ditch, from losing control of their rigs on the
slippery pavement with windy conditions while driving like idiots too fast.
That highway, 401, is well known for that in Canada.

--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

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