Home > Security > TEXAS legislature votes to KILL Texans with truck - increases speed limits in the night for tractor TrailersPosted on 9 June 2011 by Morgan Adams

The Texas legislature, in a fit of pure stupidity (not a Word, say my children in my house, so you know that I feel strongly about the subject!) has raised the speed limits in the night for tractor trailers in Texas.  (The Texas Senate passed this 23 May 2011 and it is now on the way to the Governor's desk.) You can pray that the Governor has the right of veto common sense! (Siehe_Transport_Themen,_30_Mai_2011_p25)) Texas trailer wreck already has one of the highest body count in the nation for tractor. According to the point of the last 4 years on average, 410 Texans die each year in heavy truck crashes (see statistics here).

I have at the Texas this had noted legislator. What do they do with this knowledge? Increase the speed limit at night. Something that the Texas commercial driver license manual illustrating wants to kill YOU! Especially the 2008 Texas CDL manual States (and this in 2004 CDL manual also said, I have the oldest Texas CDL manual):

Driving too fast is a major cause of fatal crashes. You need to adjust your speed depending on driving conditions. These include traction, curves, visibility, traffic and hills. (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6)  

She should be able to stop within the distance, you can see ahead... At night you can see as far as you can with high beam with low beams. If you use low beam, must slow down. (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6) If you double your speed, it takes about four times, how much distance to stop your car four times will have and the destructive power, if it crashes. Distances greatly increase speeds. By slow down a little, you get a lot in reduced braking distance.  (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6)

Total braking distance.  At 55 mph , it takes approximately six seconds to stop, and your vehicle travel over the distance of a football field. (60 + 60 + 170 = 290 Feet). (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6)

At night, your headlights to see generally the main source of light for you, and others are to see you. See not nearly so much with your headlights, as you can see during the day. With low beams, which can you before about 250 meters and with high beam about 350-500 meters. You must adjust to keep your speed your stopping distance your eyes away. This go enough, in order in the area of your headlight stop slowly. Otherwise, over time you see a threat display, have no time to stop. (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.8)

If you know that to know this, the Texas legislature goes and throws the Nightime speed 75 MPH for tractor trailers! This means even if the truck driver is attention and has its high beams on he can't stop in time.

Now I can legislators not bright when compared to people in Texas, but if my own book at 55 MPH tells me it takes 290 feet to stop a tractor trailer and a tractor trailer only 250 meters see on at night with his low bar, we have a problem. At the time see a driver in the street, it is too late to stop in 55 MPH, much less 75 MPH. This issue has even a name, it means your headlight "about the driving force". Safety instructors, truck companies and truck drivers have known about this for decades. It's so it is well known even in 2004 Texas CDL manual!

If you, your children or your parents have an engine problem or a flat tire in the night, and not from the road, you are dead in Texas, if a truck behind you.

I think that the Texas loves little people in small cars much more than us legislators truck companies.

You understand that the truck driver the fall guys here. When they are properly trained go slower than to limit the speed within the distance which can see in the night with its headlights. TRUCK companies train loads more money in the General truck driver in this way because the faster delivered, which makes the a truck company. The victims are really you, I and the truck drivers. I think the most truck drivers that would follow safety rules if they were properly trained.

The vehicle death rate in Texas by heavy trucks, which has fallen in recent years, is to explode! Keep in mind, the NAFTA Mexican trucks should not put which I believe are almost certainly (see my previous blog posts) as us drivers and truck in Texas as well as all licensed! Next time you pass a graveyard in Texas make sure that, thank you a moment legislators to your Texas take!

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