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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Vehicles that weigh more than 4 tons make up a significant amount of road traffic right now.
Literally everything you purchase in a store, your food, your toiletries, your clothes, any consumer good you have every purchased traveled on a road at some point in a vehicle that far exceeds 8 tons. Ambulances weigh more than 8 tons, fire trucks weigh more than 8 tons, mail is transported in vehicles that weigh more than 8 tons.
7,000lbs is an extremely low failure point for a guard rail given the number of vehicles that exceed that weight on the road today.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Require a CDL for the big vehicles. Maintain stringent requirements for the CDL.

Do you still want that electric Ram?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Commercial driver's license? I AM TRAVELLING AND NOT ENGAGED IN COMMERCE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I DEMAND TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE MY 18 WHEELER WHEREVER I PLEASE, HEIGHT CLEARANCES ARE A DEEP STATE PLOT TO TAKE AWAY MY FREEDUMB

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

11'8" bridge cares not for your "freedoms"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Oh, that brings back some memories of Reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A good chunk of what's mentioned in GP already requires a CDL. That's not the issue.

I keep seeing "CDL" brought up as a magic solution, and it's clear people haven't looked into how it works and what it affects.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It failing against a semi or a firetruck is kind of understandable but....yeah. Ambulances and then the 'smaller' every day vehicles? this shit is unacceptable