# Semi-Trucker Rant

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**Created:** [July 21, 2010, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/semi-trucker-rant/253377 "2010-07-21T08:17:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/semi-trucker-rant/253377/27 "2010-07-21T18:58:02Z")

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> [@SeAD this coming weekend (8/11-8/12)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sead-this-coming-weekend-8-11-8-12/33575/16):
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> Some truckers do well over the speed limit. They ‘waste money’ (for purpose of this discussion). If you limit their trucks to 70mph, the company is still ‘saving money’ while the general public doesn’t have to deal with a slow ass truck on the interstate (if you governed it to say 60 or whatever). What is so hard to understand about that?
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> Yeah the cost savings are different between 60 and 70, but if said trucker likes to do 75-80 on his big rig, then limiting him to 70 is technically still saving money. Just not as much.
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> Also, I’m pretty sure if a trucker got pulled over for something while doing 70 he wouldn’t get a speeding ticket. I’ve seen some of them do 80 for hours (I followed one such truck from MD to southern VA while on my way to FL).
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> The only issue I have with them is when they get side by side with another one. That’s it. None of these other issues that people are saying bother me as I’m typically patient on the road and pretty observative (so I don’t get stuck getting run onto the shoulder, etc.)

Bro, sometimes your logic is out of this world.

The company I worked for spent TONS of money determining what the most fuel efficient speed was, as well as looking at speeds of accidents in the national DOT register to determine the safest operating speed and at which point does that start to get worse.

I know you’re def. one of those people that would be going NUTS if you were involved in an accident with an 18 wheeler and it was going 70 mph… You’d be the first ignorant d-bag to say “The vehicle was going to fast”.

Every time I think you’re shedding some of your douchebaggery, you reconfirm it’s still there 10 fold.

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