No speed limit[edit]
On March 10, 1996,
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patrolman issued a
speeding ticket to a driver traveling at 85 mph (136 km/h) on a stretch of
State Highway 200. The 50‑year‑old driver (Rudy Stanko) was operating a 1996
Chevrolet Camaro with less than 10,000 miles (16,093 km) on the
odometer. Although the officer gave no opinion as to what would have been a reasonable speed, the driver was convicted. The driver appealed to the
Montana Supreme Court. The Court reversed the conviction in case No. 97-486 on December 23, 1998; it held that a law requiring drivers to drive at a non-numerical "reasonable and proper" speed "is so
vague that it violates the
Due Process Clause ... of the
Montana Constitution".
Effective May 28, 1999, as a result of that decision, the
Montana Legislature established a speed limit of 75 mph.
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- Montana's US, State, and even Secondary roads have speed limits posted 70 mph/night:65; truck:60/night:55.
Seven years later, a research study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a long-time advocate of the federal National Maximum Speed Law, showed Montana's 75 mph speed limit on rural Interstates was well received by motorists; traffic speed measurements taken by IIHS showed 76 percent of cars in compliance with 75 mph on those roads. IIHS also found large trucks subject to Montana's unchanged 65 mph speed limit for large trucks on rural Interstates slowed down dramatically, from a mean speed of 70 mph in 1996 to 65 mph in 2006, with the 85th percentile large truck speed dropping 11 mph, from 79 mph in 1996 to 68 mph in 2006.
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