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 topic!) 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 to 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 DOT over the last 4 years on average, 410 Texans die every year in heavy truck crashes (see stats here).

I have at the Texas this had noted legislator. What do they do with this knowledge? You increase the speed limit at night. Something that the Texas commercial driver license manual clearly makes wants to kill YOU! Especially the 2008 Texas CDL manual States (and it this in the 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 stop the location within the distance you can see before... At night you can see as far as you can with high beam beams with low. If you are using low beams, must slow down. (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6) If you double your speed, takes it about four times as much distance to end and your car four times have the destructive power, if it falls off. Stopping distances greatly increase speeds. By you slow down a little, you will get a lot in reduced braking distance.  (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.6)

Total braking distance.  At 55 mph , it takes about 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)

In the night, your headlights to see generally the main source of light for you, and others are to see you. Not nearly so much with, you can see 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 distance your stopping distance in your eyes. This go enough in the area of your headlight stop to slow. Otherwise, with the time you see represent a risk, have no time to stop. (2008 Texas CDL Manual Chapter 2.8)

If you know that to know this, the Texas legislature is and solves 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 in the night with his low bar, we have a problem. At the moment see a driver in the street it's to late stop in 55 MPH, much less 75 MPH. This problem has even a name, it means your Spotlight "on the driving force". Safety instructors, truck companies and truck drivers have known about this for decades. It is so it is known even in the 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 them.

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

You understand that the truck drivers the fall guys here. When they are properly trained go slower than to limit the speed, distance, which can see in the night with its headlights. TRUCK companies not generally train truck drivers in this way because the faster the loads that more money, which makes a truck company delivered,. The victims are really you, me and truck driver. I think the most truck drivers that would follow safety rules if they were properly trained.

The vehicle deaths in Texas by heavy trucks, which has fallen in recent years, is to explode! Remember NAFTA, Mexican trucks, which in my opinion do not set are almost certainly (see my previous blogs) as us drivers and truck in Texas as well as all licensed! The next time you pass a cemetery in Texas make sure you take a moment to your Texas legislator thank!

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