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Safety - Canada - Environmental Group Supports Call for Speed Limitation of all Trucks at 105 kph
Would improve fuel efficiency, reduce GHG emissions
Toronto, Ontario, CAN -CCNMatthews -Nov. 15, 2005: -- Ontario environmental group Pollution Probe today voiced its support for an Ontario Trucking Association proposal, passed today, that would make it a legal requirement in Ontario that speed limiting technology be activated on all trucks and that the top speed a truck could go would be set at no more than 105 kilometres per hour (kph)... Among the environmental benefits, OTA estimates: 1- Fuel savings of as much as 10,500 litres of diesel fuel consumed per year for a typical tractor-trailer unit (or 50 million litres for all such trucks in Ontario). At today's diesel prices, this would equate to annual savings of about $8,400 per truck. - 2 - It is estimated that with a mandatory speed limit of 105 kph the entire Ontario industry would save 50 million litres of diesel fuel per year - 3.- A reduction of as much as 140 kilotonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year...
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