Government wants to regulate busses and trucks to max of 67 MPH or less (lawyers, Pittsburgh)

[freemkt]

How about regulating government to 67 lines of regulation per hour or less?

[Nepenthe]

From this article:

The Obama administration wants to require electronic speed-limiting devices in big trucks and buses

The American Trucking Association has urged safety regulators to limit the speed of all vehicles, including passenger cars, to 65 mph. But safety groups want the speed capped at 60 mph.

So the truckers are in favor of 65 as the speed-limiter setting... but not JUST for trucks, for ALL vehicles.

And "safety groups" want all vehicles limited to 60 mph or just trucks -- it's unclear.

Imagine owning a Tesla or a Porsche or a Vette or a Yamaha R1 and there's a government-mandated 60 mph speed limiter on it. I'm sure it would be illegal to remove, yet I haven't seen a limiter yet that couldn't be modified or removed.

Who would want to be up on a highway going the government-mandated max of 60 mph on a motorcycle with a bunch of other vehicles going the government-mandated max of 60 mph? No ability to pull away?

[PullMyFinger]

Probably laying the groundwork for AI driven trucks.

[t206]

Originally Posted by johnsonkk

One of the benefits fro lowering the national speed limit to 55mph was a significant reduction in traffic fatalities. Just saying. Lower speeds save lives.

Think if the airlines could lobby for lower speed limits.

The speed limit was lowered in 1974, right around the same time when things like air bags, anti-lock breaks, and other engineering safety improvements were becoming more common in cars. I find it highly unlikely that lowering the speed limit was the silver bullet.

[TrapperJohn]

The liberals ain't ever gonna cross the trucking Union. It'll never happen. Those guys make the NRA seem like choir boys.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by freemkt

How about regulating government to 67 lines of regulation per hour or less?

back in the 80s when I was a kid, my dad would say "congress should pass a law that requires them to repeal 2 laws for every new one they pass"




My dad was a visionary.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

The liberals ain't ever gonna cross the trucking Union. It'll never happen. Those guys make the NRA seem like choir boys.

those guys like guns, and are rednecks. you really think democrats aren't sitting around trying to figure out how to destroy them?


shoot.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by car54

Many of the large trucking companies are self insured.

Yes and they would still be subject to lawsuits, by governing the speed they help prevent lawsuits because of speeding.

[Mr. In-Between]

Every single thing you buy in a store got there on a truck, and someone had to pay the truck driver for the time it took him to bring it there. How much more is everything - and yeah, I mean just about everything - we buy going to cost if retailers have to pay truck drivers 15% to 20% more for the time it takes to deliver their loads?

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by johnsonkk

One of the benefits fro lowering the national speed limit to 55mph was a significant reduction in traffic fatalities. Just saying. Lower speeds save lives.

Think if the airlines could lobby for lower speed limits.

Lower speed crashes have less fatalities and injuries but they don't reduce accidents, artificially low speed limits cause accidents. The safest speed to drive is whatever traffic is flowing at.