Autonomous Trucks
The Trucking Alliance, as well as several truck safety groups, are calling out efforts to prevent speed limiters from being required on commercial motor vehicles. More than 15,000 comments were filed, and the majority came from truck drivers opposed to a mandate. Even more, the truck drivers in these cases had no driver-related factors recorded 67.1% of the time. It should also be noted that a large truck is defined as a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds. Citing concerns over speed differentials, many states have eliminated laws that made the posted speed limit for cars faster than for heavy-duty trucks.