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Originally Posted by inmate1577
Now supertrucker can bitch about slow company trucks but you rarely see a company truck getting nailed for speeding either.
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I see company trucks get pulled over for speeding all the time, but then I spend a lot of my life in a big no-fly zone. Company trucks seem to want to go as fast as they possibly can, no matter where they are. My truck can go insanely fast, but the speed limit is 55, so I'm inching toward 60, but not going over that. I can't pass a company truck through there. They blow my doors off at 62 or 63 or 65 or whatever they can muster. On a downhill, they'll wind it up as tight as gravity will let them, and lots and lots of them get popped at popular downhill speed traps.
I go through this funny ritual every day. Speed limit is 65. I cruise at about that, but will punch it up to about 70 to put some inertia in the bank for a hill, maybe a couple of seconds of 72-73 for a steep one. I get around all the 65 mph trucks who hit the hill at full tilt, and don't have anything extra to pour on. Then we hit the 55 zone, and they all pass me, and get miles ahead of me. By the end of the short 70 zone, I've passed them all again. Then we hit another 55, and they all pass me again.
There's a lesson there in "slow and steady wins the race" or whatever, but I'm just doing the speed limit man (within a close enough tolerance that I don't worry about imperial entanglements), and these guys are NOT doing the speed limit in those no fly zones. Or construction zones. They have no respect for lowered speed limits at all, and frequently pay the price for this.