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DEBATE: Speed Limiters * Canada - OTA says could help reduce rollovers
The Ontario Trucking Association says the province needs to better educate car operators on sharing the road with large tractor-trailers while at the same time legislating speed governors on all trucksToronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -27 July 2007: -- ... Following a number of high profile incidents on Ontario highways in the last week, the OTA offering free brochures and videos with tips on sharing the road with a truck to the public and will arrange for a member of OTA’s Road Knights Team of professional transport drivers to make a presentation to community groups.
There have been four truck rollovers on Ontario highways in the last eight days. One, last week, sent a truck driver to hospital with severe burns after his tanker carrying a load of smoldering hot tar rolled over on Hwy. 401 near Keele St... OTA President David Bradley cited the OTA's effort to get speed limiters mandated on all truck operating in the province as one of those initiatives. "Besides, safety is good business,” he says... (Photo: Trucks are the safest vehicles on the roads, says OTA boss Bradley. But that doesn't mean the industry should rest on its laurels)
There have been four truck rollovers on Ontario highways in the last eight days. One, last week, sent a truck driver to hospital with severe burns after his tanker carrying a load of smoldering hot tar rolled over on Hwy. 401 near Keele St... OTA President David Bradley cited the OTA's effort to get speed limiters mandated on all truck operating in the province as one of those initiatives. "Besides, safety is good business,” he says... (Photo: Trucks are the safest vehicles on the roads, says OTA boss Bradley. But that doesn't mean the industry should rest on its laurels)
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