What is the SafetyPass Pro?
Kenworth pulling a 53′ reefer
The SafetyPass PRO is an electronic device truck drivers use to control their speed. Currently, truck speed is limited by an onboard computer or, Engine Control Module (ECM).
Trucking Companies that have large fleets of big rig trucks install speed governors to control costs. Speed governors limit the maximum, top speed of the vehicle in order to maximize fuel savings and expand company earnings. If these speed limiters are set too low they can become Dangerous.
The SafetyPass Pro allows drivers to over-ride the computer settings and increase speed beyond the computer limitation to increase safety and control when passing slower vehicles on two lane highways.
The SafetyPass Pro from fastertruck.com is also used to reduce road-rage situations by allowing drivers to pass more quickly and then get out of way of faster traffic on the freeway. This is a benefit that truck and car drivers appreciate. Smoother traffic flow instead of congested freeways.
There’s nothing worse than getting stuck behind a truck driver while he or she (there are a lot of women truck drivers) is trying to pass another truck on the freeway and both of their truck speed governors are set at very nearly the same top speed.
It can take as long as ten minutes to complete a pass. So you have two 40 ton big-rigs traveling beside each other at freeway speeds for an extended period of time.
Meanwhile, faster traffic is stacking up behind the two trucks creating a dangerous close proximity between vehicles.
The truck driver desperately tries to complete the pass as a Powder Keg of Road Rage is developing behind them.
The truck driver knows a potential Road Rage situation is brewing but they are Helpless because the speed governor is un-yielding and will not provide even 1 mph more… A faster truck would be welcome here because this is a very uncomfortable situation for everyone on the highway.
The captured traffic to the rear doesn’t understand that the truck’s speed limit has been reduced by a computerized road speed governor and the truck driver is powerless to go any faster.
The passing truck driver just has to hold their foot to the floor, take the abuse, and hope for the best.
The SafetyPass PRO is great for Freeway driving, but when it’s used for passing on 2-lane hiway, that’s where it really shines.
Passing time, that is the time you would spend in the oncoming traffic lane, can be reduced by 80% when employing the device. The increase in safety is dramatic.
With the SafetyPass PRO installed, one touch of a button is all it takes to make these potentially dangerous situations disappear instantly. The truck driver can pass quickly and clear the passing lane for faster traffic and everybody’s happy!
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