Wednesday, Jul 09, 2014 at 22:08
Rosss mate....in the real world there are commercial realities where the driver does not have the choice or it represents significant cost to drive considerably lower than the speed limit...like it or not that is a reality.
If a transport driver travels at 90Kmh rather than 100Kmh ( the average speed will be less in both cases).....that means in 10 hours driving that vehicle will cover arround 100Km less or for the same distance it will take arround a hour more.
In real terms that costs the transport owner arround $100 in wages and staff related overheads alone.
There is a lot being said in the trasmport schedules that many of the end users are demanding....and yes the commercial realities of making a specific distance in the given log book hours.
many of the transport contracts apply significant penalties in the thoursnads of dollars....if the contracted schedule is not met or the delivery slot is missed.
Like it or not these are current commercial realities.
we keep comming back to people towing combinations that are not stable and the drivers are not comfortable driving at the posted highway speeds....realy combinations that are either not safe or drivers that are not adequately competent.
So which is it ..is your vehicle combination not safe at the posted highway speed under good conditions...or are you incompetent.......its one or the other...there is no third choice
And a lot of these mobile chicanes and massivve rolling gin palaces are traveling
well below 90Kmh......on roads where there are no passing lanes they represent a clear
hazard and a genuine incnvienience to the remaining majority of road users.
There may be no rule that says you have to travel at 100KMh.......but is is plain and clear that many of these people do not give a $@!t about anybody else.
Slow one mate...I know that many drivers do not use the clutch shifting crash boxes....it comes to personal choice and how the particular vehicle works best for the partricular driver.....the term used was to indicate that there is a lot more effort required on behalf of a heavy vehicle driver to shift gears than there is in a passenger car.
cheers
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