02-22-2004, 07:50 PM
Ok that being said how do you feel about being regulated to hual under 80k lbs and facing bookoo fines for exeeding that because you are a comercial driver. BUT if you have an 5th wheel and a boat that totally exeed the capacity of the pickup hualing it and doing that freely, without being bound to any laws of weight. (there are laws in place but its impossable to patrol this area without plugging up port of entries)
it is possable to put 75k lbs in a 1ton pickup and it is not legal nor safe but it goes unregulated and its left up to the operator to decide when enough is enough and far to often people exeed what is a safe limit.
as far as RVers not being held to a log book and required to sleep I also disagree with that but thats another grey area that will never get regulated because of an exausted law enforcement system. I know that alot of motorist would not be able to get hired on to a trucking company because they would not qualify for the insurance weather it be because of age or health probs or habits because the insurance deems them unsafe, But they can own their own RV and travel on the same roadways as everybody and do it completely unregulated.
what it boils down to is an imperfect system and relying on common sence to govern safety, some peoples idea of safety is different than others.
I dont mean to upset people with my opinion but I travel the same roadways and my children do as well and as far as their safety and other families I think that safety is the #1 issue.
In my younger days I drove over the road and did think that I was immune to safety concerns. I was driving back from florida, running 2 logs and extended my sleep beyond my capacity. I fell asleep and traveled 11 miles before I woke up, luckily I didn't crash but it scared me enough to straighten up and I've always remembered the fear I had as it had happened. I dont know what woke me but I can remember jumping and thinking to myself "oh god I've been asleep" I pulled over on the side of the road and almost cried at what could have happened, how real the danger was with my carelessness and how to correct that. I dont expect my experience to change anybody's feelings but it did change mine and know now what my limits are and
ly it took something like that to show me where my limits are.
DZ
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it is possable to put 75k lbs in a 1ton pickup and it is not legal nor safe but it goes unregulated and its left up to the operator to decide when enough is enough and far to often people exeed what is a safe limit.
as far as RVers not being held to a log book and required to sleep I also disagree with that but thats another grey area that will never get regulated because of an exausted law enforcement system. I know that alot of motorist would not be able to get hired on to a trucking company because they would not qualify for the insurance weather it be because of age or health probs or habits because the insurance deems them unsafe, But they can own their own RV and travel on the same roadways as everybody and do it completely unregulated.
what it boils down to is an imperfect system and relying on common sence to govern safety, some peoples idea of safety is different than others.
I dont mean to upset people with my opinion but I travel the same roadways and my children do as well and as far as their safety and other families I think that safety is the #1 issue.
In my younger days I drove over the road and did think that I was immune to safety concerns. I was driving back from florida, running 2 logs and extended my sleep beyond my capacity. I fell asleep and traveled 11 miles before I woke up, luckily I didn't crash but it scared me enough to straighten up and I've always remembered the fear I had as it had happened. I dont know what woke me but I can remember jumping and thinking to myself "oh god I've been asleep" I pulled over on the side of the road and almost cried at what could have happened, how real the danger was with my carelessness and how to correct that. I dont expect my experience to change anybody's feelings but it did change mine and know now what my limits are and
ly it took something like that to show me where my limits are. DZ
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