Idaho's new speed limit change signed into law.

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Confident_Season1207@reddit

Semi drivers can barely drive at slower speeds and we think it's going to be safer at 80mph?

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Safe_Fail_568@reddit

Doesn’t seem to be a problem in Texas

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Confident_Season1207@reddit

Every time I see Texas plates in MN, it's always a guarantee I see shitty driving

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Red_Sox0905@reddit

Right. So much complaining on here about how incompetent some truck drivers are, yet celebrating them being able to go faster.

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So many of them are driving like they are drunk and on their phone. You'll get truckers on here always blaming the foreigners, and while they have their issues, I see plenty of white trash driving shitty

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Wasabi-Kungpow@reddit

Here I come in my 62 governed truck riding the left lane passing another doing 62.5

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HighwayStar71@reddit

Trucks doing 80 is scary considering who is driving them, now.

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WelcomeMachine@reddit

I just drove from St Louis to Lexington KY today. Indiana sucks. For more reasons than just this, but yeah, I hate being able to run with traffic flow. Not like you can run fast very long. I think they're working on every bridge along I64 in that state!

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UmbraSicarius69@reddit

Oh don't worry, they are lmao

Source? Native Kentuckian sitting at my house in Richmond till Monday morning lol. Good fuckin luck getting out of Lex before 8pk with holiday traffic, I'd wait if I was you

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Scurvy_Pete@reddit

Nicholasville Rd is my own personal hell

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Black000betty@reddit

Why not just lower everyone to 70? 4 wheelers can't drive worth a damn anyway, shouldn't be going so fast.

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Tiparuski@reddit

Should be like that everywhere

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NekoboyBanks@reddit

California is the worst culprit. I've never thought it was safe to have trucks limited to 55, despite it being ostensibly for safety. It seems almost nobody obeys it anyway.

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thedailyworkwr@reddit

I believe california does that so they can ticket drivers. 55 is not a safe speed in my opinion. Youre basically a congesting traffic. In the city I understand, but in out in the open should be at least 65

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CMDR_Joe_Plague@reddit

55 is stupidity

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RKGamesReddit@reddit

It's based on an old study from UC Berkeley about breaking distances, I could understand it for urban areas but some of the more rural areas it just doesn't make sense.

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NekoboyBanks@reddit

I'm right there with you. It just seems to me that it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. But I'm no scientist, I guess.

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Renault_75-34_MX@reddit

Germany is 80km/h (50 mph) on motorways/built out roads only. The rest is officially 60km/h (37 mph).

But many ignore it ang go 70/43 on most of the B roads (probably similar to the Route xx roads), and 85/52 on the motorways.

At least we have a bit more driver discipline so that it's not too bad when mixing speed limited lorries with cars, especially on the unrestricted speed parts of the Autobahn.

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CobraWasTaken@reddit

Works better for them because they're not paid by the kilometer

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Lucius_Furius@reddit

We were for a long time, and the rules were the same. It was legal until around 2012 to get payed by km or straight percentages of the job.

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bananslickarn@reddit

I dont get how you guys accept being paid by the mile? So if you have to wait at like a terminal do you get 0 pay?

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TojoftheJungle@reddit

Exactly. Some companies have rates for mileage+on duty, but it's usually horrible pay from what I've seen, and geared toward newer drivers that have little other choice.

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