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I've started commuting for my job again and I keep seeing truck drivers in fully loaded semi's going 75mph it's insane.
I think the stress from disease, low income, and climate is pushing people to their limit imo.
I have been saying this to my friends a lot. I commute about 60 miles a day...the amount of people I see driving like lunatics is just going up exponentially...and I cannot help but interpret it as a sign of the mental breakdown of society.
My wife is sick of hearing how I feel that we need to seriously increase the difficulty of obtaining a license for these monster vehicles and expand public transit. These things are out of control size wise and I feel like big vehicles should require additional licensing.
I agree. People are driving like freaks and I feel like I'm getting into near-accidents on a weekly basis now.
This is really true. What a time to be alive (until you get killed in a car crash).
Also potentially the stress of owing a fortune on their truck that the shipping company sold them and for training. There are some really nasty, predatory practices in trucking that leave workers treading water and unable to get ahead without breaking rules to complete as many shipments as possible.
Unpopular opinion (for Americans in general) but I support a federal speed limit of 55mph, with that speed being only on separated highways like interstates. Max speed off-highway should be 45mph and only on wide and straight county roads. Change the penalty for speeding to a significant percentage of income with heavy enforcement and watch accident numbers go down by an order of magnitude. If people want to drive like suicidal (and homicidal) sociopaths, they should have to go to a closed track. I'd like to continue living after my car commute, which is the only option because a bus trip would take 3 hours and multiple changes (vs 25 minutes driving) and they don't run late enough anyway.
That's the thing, the speed limit for trucks is 60mph. This guy was speeding over the limit with two semi trailers full of wood pallets it was insane.
Man i get anxiety doing that in American truck simulator how are people doing that irl wtf
I've got an old fleet vehicle with a governor on it. Doesn't go over 63. I get on the highway and just sit in the right lane while the world passes me by. It's incredibly less stressful than trying to keep up with the flow of traffic while people weave in and out around you.
This is what I do, too. Get up to 60 and set the cruise control. At 60 I get ~35mpg vs 80 (typical speed for everyone else) at ~25mpg. Then there's the people with lifted trucks flooring it going 95-100 who probably get less than 5mpg. And they haven't seemed to decrease in number despite the price of gas doubling in the past two years. I can't understand being so into machismo that they spend $25+/day on gas.
I feel you, but in the opposite way. Having to drive an aging pick-up truck with a tank full of sloshing pesticide and a rough drive over 70 mph in Chicago traffic was a nightmare.
Yeah, I just don't appreciate people putting other oppressed, working class people in harm's way. Anyway, I'm just taking this all as a sign to try to have a good time and smoke cigars more often.
If I'm going out suddenly, then I'm enjoying my days like Fidel.