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Given how horribly the biggest trucks drive around me (NYC suburbs), I’m all in favor of treating trucks like trucks. If you’re over 3000lb then you get speed
by hnbear 3y ago
Given how horribly the biggest trucks drive around me (NYC suburbs), I’m all in favor of treating trucks like trucks.
If you’re over 3000lb then you get speed limited to 55, require additional driving licensing for the heavier, more cumbersome special purpose vehicle, etc.
Treat trucks like trucks and encourage behavior in the direction that’s societally appropriate.
The cars overtaking me the most are 5,000lb F250s and 2500s doing 80+. They’re the same ones racing on 25mph residential streets, and over taking school buses.
The size and protection is a moral hazard that causes incredibly bad behavior.
And that’s before you get to the morons with the serious lifts and 35”+ tires, deliberately rolling coal as they drive around.