"I can't drive 55"!

[sailfish]

You need to travel more. Trucks have a lower speed limit in Ohio, Montana and Wyoming to name a few.

Well, even then I wouldn't know that unless I was driving a tractor.

 

[Wally]

Cook county in Illinois ignores all speed limits...



This.

And election laws.

 

[superballs63]

We just had a guy in feeders get pulled over doing 85 in a 55 in a rental -_-

85 in a rental? Wow. Ours top out at 72 I've been told :|

 

[barnyard]

Well, even then I wouldn't know that unless I was driving a tractor.

Hard to miss, as they are posted with the regular signs. Unless you cannot read. Then it would be an issue.

 

[sailfish]

Hard to miss, as they are posted with the regular signs. Unless you cannot read. Then it would be an issue.

I'm illegible so I guess that explains why.

 

[soberups]

I wouldn't go over 55 pulling a TP60 if my job depended in it...., wait it does! We had a driver pulling a trailer one time have it come loose. That's all one of us needs is THAT happening/// that's stupid. We get paid by the hour.

If it came loose it was because he didn't hook it up properly, not because of how fast he was going.

 

[superballs63]

I wouldn't go over 55 pulling a TP60 if my job depended in it....

Why not? If you'd go over 55 without the tp on back, what's the difference?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

And what can we conclude, from this anomaly?

That it's best to keep up with the flow of traffic, even if it means going a little over the speed limit?

 

[wo88upsman]

Come to Texas highway around Austin and San Antonio speed limit is 85 cars trucks both.

 

[3 done 3 to go]

All that said about speeding on my MC. I do NOT speed in a package car anymore. I do the posted speed or 5 under.

That's me. They don't pay me to be a nascar driver. I don't drive it any faster than posted speed.

 

[3 done 3 to go]

My personal car has been known to hit 85- 90 a few times. I don't want to impede traffic

 

[barnyard]

My personal car has been known to hit 85- 90 a few times. I don't want to impede traffic

We were talking about driving and 'protecting my license as a professional driver' when my wife went to the garage and got my GPS off my motorcycle. I had just gotten back from a trip to TN/NC. Tops speed from that trip was 129. She pointed out that over 100 is an automatic license revocation where we live. I was trying to do 100 miles in an hour. It is much harder than it sounds.

 

[superballs63]

I was trying to do 100 miles in an hour. It is much harder than it sounds.

Yeah, you'd need to be at 125 mph for a good few minutes to help you hit that 100 miles in 60 minutes, you'll never have ideal conditions for a solid hour to make that happen

 

[barnyard]

I will probably try it again next year in Montana.

 

[KaiserTom]

There are times when driving the speed limit impedes traffic.

+5-10 over the limit is not speeding and in fact is the usual flow of traffic.

+20 or 30 however is speeding, there is no reason to go that fast in a brown truck.

 

[barnyard]

+5-10 over the limit is not speeding and in fact is the usual flow of traffic.

8 is great, nine is fine.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

8 is great, nine is fine.

In Upstate NY you can get away with going 72 in a 65. Anything beyond that you are just asking to get pulled over.

 

[superballs63]

+5-10 over the limit is not speeding and in fact is the usual flow of traffic.

+20 or 30 however is speeding, there is no reason to go that fast in a brown truck.

Going 56 in a 55 IS speeding, and if a cop wanted to, he most certainly could write you a ticket for that.

 

[scratch]

The un-official speed limit on the Atlanta Interstates seems to be about 80MPH. I have to keep my P-7 in the far right lane because it tops out at 70.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Going 56 in a 55 IS speeding, and if a cop wanted to, he most certainly could write you a ticket for that.

It would be dismissed.