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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: truck signs
Message-ID: <962@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 16:58:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 16:58:41 1984
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On I-80 (amd maybe US 50) there is a test area that the gov't put in a few
years ago to test the concept of legalizing the long practiced action of
truckers speeding up on the way down hill if it immediately led to an uphill.
They even made it legal for trucks (NOT cars) to go up to 65 mph on the
downhill.  It may be that the signs you saw were from that test.  The test
may still be going on.  I think they were testing to see if there were more
accidents if you let truckers speed, and it may take time to gather enough
stats.

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