• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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

      Do you still want that electric Ram?

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        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.

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      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