PantherPower
Seasoned Expediter
Saw this somewhere a while back that they were planning on raising the speed limit for trucks in Michigan to 60MPH. The other day when I was talking to the wife, she told me that she noticed it now said 60MPH for trucks on I-96 in Grand Rapids.
I looked a little bit on MDOT's website and found nothing pertaining to it. Then I came across this at :
http://www.truckingsafety.org/new/new2006.htm
Sec.257.627
New legislation (Public Act 19 of 2006) was approved by the Governor and enacted into law on February 9, 2006. The act amends the Michigan Vehicle Code, section 257.627, permitting a truck, a truck-tractor, or a truck-tractor with a semi-trailer or trailer to operate at a speed not to exceed 60 miles per hour on a freeway, if the maximum speed limit on that freeway is 70 miles per hour. This legislation also raises the speed limit for school busses to 60 mph on roads posted for 70 mph. (Effective 11/09/06)
Provisions of this act:
-Establish speeds that would be "prima facie unlawful" to exceed in business districts, in public parks, and on highway segments with specified numbers of driveways or intersections.
-- Designate the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit on highways where another speed limit does not apply as the "general speed limit".
-- Designate various speed limits as "absolute speed limits", which would supersede prima facie speed limits.
-- Increase the minimum speed on freeways from 45 miles per hour (mph) to 55 mph.
-- Require the Michigan Department of Transportation to establish the speed on all trunk line highways within cities and villages.
-- Allow local authorities to decrease the prima facie speed limit to 25 mph on streets under their jurisdiction adjacent to public parks and playgrounds, and to 15 mph on streets in public parks under their jurisdiction. The bill will take effect on November 9, 2006.
This amendatory act takes effect November 9, 2006.
Can't wait to get home this week and enjoy moving faster than a snail through Michigan!!
I looked a little bit on MDOT's website and found nothing pertaining to it. Then I came across this at :
http://www.truckingsafety.org/new/new2006.htm
Sec.257.627
New legislation (Public Act 19 of 2006) was approved by the Governor and enacted into law on February 9, 2006. The act amends the Michigan Vehicle Code, section 257.627, permitting a truck, a truck-tractor, or a truck-tractor with a semi-trailer or trailer to operate at a speed not to exceed 60 miles per hour on a freeway, if the maximum speed limit on that freeway is 70 miles per hour. This legislation also raises the speed limit for school busses to 60 mph on roads posted for 70 mph. (Effective 11/09/06)
Provisions of this act:
-Establish speeds that would be "prima facie unlawful" to exceed in business districts, in public parks, and on highway segments with specified numbers of driveways or intersections.
-- Designate the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit on highways where another speed limit does not apply as the "general speed limit".
-- Designate various speed limits as "absolute speed limits", which would supersede prima facie speed limits.
-- Increase the minimum speed on freeways from 45 miles per hour (mph) to 55 mph.
-- Require the Michigan Department of Transportation to establish the speed on all trunk line highways within cities and villages.
-- Allow local authorities to decrease the prima facie speed limit to 25 mph on streets under their jurisdiction adjacent to public parks and playgrounds, and to 15 mph on streets in public parks under their jurisdiction. The bill will take effect on November 9, 2006.
This amendatory act takes effect November 9, 2006.
Can't wait to get home this week and enjoy moving faster than a snail through Michigan!!
