Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxr.962 Posted: Wed Mar 7 16:58:41 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:45:02 EST References: <223@intelca.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 16 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. -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL