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Speed does not matter.Plan a trip from LA to Freehold and you will average 35 mph as a single and about 50 as a team.Alot of these trucks are casterated as they are anyhow. Some trucks have incorrect governer settings and inadequate power curve setttings where they cannot maintain cruise speed in a strong wind without downshifting and losing 4 mph.The two lane interstates from the 60's are not working and the three laners have bad accidents almost daily. Split speed limits really excaberate the problem. No one will be at 55 mph when cars are flying up to thier ICC bumper at 70+ Decapitation is a possibility.We are already late. How slower do you want the freight?We all might have to go 24/7 teams just to beat the slower speed limits at great cost to the drivers who must share one revenue source out of the truck each week.Another problem:People have no issues waiting on China to make the widget. Then waiting a month for that widget to sail the great wide pacific sea at 20 mph. As soon as it clears customs they want that widget yesterday.I have been on both sides of the speed problem. One company put computers and enforced 55 mph with instant no questions firing at 69 mph. That 55 mph in the south made me a very sleepy, slow and lethargic worker. I had lots of trouble waiting for cars to smash into my bumper.So I said screw it and quit that company.On the other side I was running a true dollar truck that was just amazing all around. 110 mph eastbound on 80 across PA was not hard at all except milesburg. Going the other way you climbed milesburg in the left lane at 70+ mph loaded and it felt like a fast elevator with power to spare.I quit that company too because I was still late and had lost way too much time in the docks getting loaded. Plus the tickets were eating into the fat paychecks.After that cooled off...Speed is always going to be a problem. No one is happy. I myself is waiting on UPS this morning for parts from Ontario CA. Those parts have cross every mile of the southwest at 60 mph Ive waited three days for these parts. UPS has proven to me that they can make the delivery happen in three days. Im proud of them. Teams and doubles all the way.I would have had the parts flown overnight and in hand friday if I understood the vendor's order system a little better.Next time I will make that happen. Forget the truck. Have em Fly it.Finally but not last...I spent the last years of my driving solely at night. The only time you can get out and roll to make any kind of distance.. 5 or 6 hundred miles in hours is at night between 9 PM and 7 AM.Everyone is asleep and the only problem remained was to either finish the delivery or find a safe spot to hole up to sleep while everyone else endures bad commute and roadrage.
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