Like “Lonesome Dove,” the story of speed limits in Texas
could be a TV series. Only crazier.
Let’s go back to late fall 1996. At that time, OOIDA
headquarters was housed in a remodeled truck stop at Exit 24 in Grain Valley,
MO.
The national speed limit had been eliminated in 1995, and it
was up to the states to set their own. OOIDA had lobbied hard, along with the
