i took the matrix to 120 and then the engine cut off. i was like wtf?! but i guess its the speed governer.
TELL us your usual freeway/highway speed
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I got too used to driving my beater that wobbles over 65. So I stay under 70 usually out of habit.
I always try to cruise at no more then 5mph over the speed limit. Good thing there's no limit to how fast you can get up to the speed limit though!
high psi 1jz said:
Escort FTW!!!
I don't speed much, but there have still been a few instances where I'm doing 10 over and it goes off. I'll slow down and then one of the cars that was going my speed flies by the cop and gets pulled over. Its happened 3 times just like that in under 6 months.
I'm not a crazy driver, but I believe my detector has saved me a few warnings.
I always set the cruse at 60 and stay in the slow lane as to not piss anyone off. which to my suprise I got a letter in the mail saying I had been reported roadraging. :dunno: I'm not worried about it because I know I wasn't but I guess some people in washington just cant be pleased. I stay in the slow lane always so how could I have been raging. If I get another I'll have to call in and get more info because I have no idea where it came from.
i go the speed i'm comfortable with. usually 85- 100 on the freeway. unfortunately that's the fastest i can go in my truck and my supra doesn't run.
flight doc89 said:
no offense, but you are going to die if you keep that shit up.
ever seen what a rock can do to a windshield at speed?
an alligator from a tandem blowout?
or a mudflap and it's bracket?
i have, it's not pretty, my company even made posters of a mudflap bracket and attached flap sticking thru a car's windshield..on the driver's side...the guy driving the car....well his family had a bad day.
nevermind the fact that you can't see around the truck, and if something happens, will you be able to stop in time?
at least once a week i see someone stuffed under a trailer who thought they could
and one last thing about tailgaiting a truck, if you insist on doing it anyway, at night, get your fucking headlights properly adjusted!
i swear the next guy that blinds me with his fog/driving lights(on a clear moonlight night, who told you guys that shit was cool?),overloaded pickup with skyward facing lights, or the asshole who runs behind me with his brights on(hey it's a truck, he sits higher than we do, so it's ok)is going to get a very unpleasant suprise.
here's a hint, most drivers have a special jug in the sleeper...
and ck to answer your question, no i don't pay for fuel as a company driver. it takes prolly at least 1.25 plus a very healthy fuel surcharge to make it as a lease-operator, or 2.50 or so to make it as a true independent owner-operator.i've done the math every which way, and right now, the extra headache and worry isn't worth the few thousand bucks a year more i would make
much less not being able to see around the truck if something happens ahead
I generally make it a rule to drive about as fast as the car in front of me is going. But traffic permitiing my usual freeway speeds are anywhere from 110 to 140. Sometimes on up too 175-200 if there is no traffic. But thats very, very rare here in Tokyo.
Ninja edit: Thats kilometer's fella's.
Ninja edit: Thats kilometer's fella's.
it depends, in the company P.O.S. escape, I usually go 85-95, depending if I'm going to a job or returning home-but that's mostly all desert driving, otherwise I'm a 75-80 type of guy.
I try to stay with the flow of the faster traffic. When there is no traffic I try to only go no more than ten over.
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usually 80MPH, but i try to stay around 70, i have gotten a speeding ticket, and cant afford another.
I usually do 5 over on city streets and 10 over on highways. If the flow of traffic is faster, I will go faster as well. Occasionally I'll hit triple digits but thats on an empty highway late at night. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket since November. And that was for doing 59 in a 50. So my 10 over rule screwed me. Bastard Orange County cops. :3d_frown:
55 on the hwy. 65/70 on the interstate
gas milage..
obviously that changes a little bit when teh flow of traffic is greater then the posted speed. gas just hit $2.99 for 89 in iowa. im gonna cry!
gas milage..
obviously that changes a little bit when teh flow of traffic is greater then the posted speed. gas just hit $2.99 for 89 in iowa. im gonna cry!
haha, my dad does it a 110 (consistently) when it is at night and there are no cars, he drives a 911. i love it when people in there rice-mobiles try to keep up with him, but as soon as a corner comes, they are 100 feet back again, then they speed up on the straits (where my dad slows down) and get tickets! hahaha!