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Petitioning - USA - Carriers join special interest group
For made-in-America speed limiter rule
GREEN BAY,Wis.,USA -Today's Trucking -19 Sept 2006: -- Some of the largest for-hire carriers in the U.S. are urging government to legislate mandatory use of speed limiters on all trucks in the nation... Schneider National -- along with eight other carriers, including J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., CR England Inc., Covenant Transport Inc. and Dart Transit Company -- have joined public safety interest group Road Safe America in petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to mandate electronic speed governors set at no more than 68 mph... American carriers are now on the speed limiter bandwagon... the OTA -- which has argued speed limit set at 105 km/h would reduce accidents, save fuel, and cut emissions -- has been successful in getting the endorsements of other provincial trucking associations and continues to market the idea nation wide under the banner of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. .. As for the environmental claims, OBAC Executive Director Joanne Ritchie finds some of them dubious. She says, by the carrier community's own admission, the large of majority of truckers currently don't go over 105 km/h, and would therefore not cut down on the hundreds of kilotonnes of greenhouse gases the associations insists would be saved...
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