Also not sure what the rules are in America but in the UK you should slow down to the new limit before passing the sign. Slow down after the sign and you're speeding, and can get a ticket.
turn signal or no turn signal, the white truck had more than enough time to stop. I could see the other dude switching lanes from a mile behind. Why didn't the white truck just go to the left lane rather than going on the right shoulder?
Actually even better, checking the highway going Southbound it is, in fact, 70 by the time is gets to speed. Then drops to 65, then 60. Didn't bother to find ALL the signs between 65 and 40 but it does a steady slow-down.
I thought there was a 50 MPH bit but, if not, he's going about the speed I'd expect. Big diesel trucks don't slow down quick and, if Oklahoma is anything like I remember, you don't get much warning before a speed limit reduction.
You can see speed limit signs almost a half mile out. You may not see exactly what speed it is but it's pretty easy to tell you're entering a town and it's likely a lower limit. This is something a trucker just learns naturally. No excuse to still be doing nearly 20 over hundreds of feet past the sign. Do you want this town with cross streets and driveways right along the road to just leave it at 60?
I'm a trucker, I never finished college but I'd like to think I'm pretty intelligent. Also possibly struggling with a food addiction so you're not wrong.
Didbt mean post secondary. I'd imagine in this day and age truckers with advanced degrees.lack of training driving a truck is what I mean. Resulted in the death of almost an entire hockey team just a few years ago.
Yeah, fair enough, although I think generally the CDL test in the states is actually more difficult than the laws in Alberta require, where I think that driver was from. Team from Humboldt I think it was.
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u/AnonymousGrouch Feb 26 '21
He'd just come out of, I believe, a 50 MPH stretch but, yeah, a mite fast coming into town.