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SPEED LIMITERS * Canada - Transport minister learns it doesn’t pay to speed in Quebec
Journalists in Quebec are having a field day one week after Transportation Minister Julie Boulet introduced legislation that includes stiffer penalties for speeding and a mandate for speed limiters on heavy trucks
QUE,CAN - The Journal Montreal(Montreal,QUE,CAN)/Land Line Magazine (USA), by David Tanner -November 20, 2007: -- ... The Journal reported their staff observed three infractions by Boulet’s limo driver – traveling 107 kilometers per hour (66 mph) in a 70 km/h (44 mph) zone; passing a vehicle on the right at speeds of 120 km/h (75 mph); and, traveling 130 km/h (81 mph) in a 100 km/h (62 mph) zone... Boulet’s critics say it’s hypocritical for her to introduce legislation concerning highway safety while she neglects current speed laws and the very enforcement of those laws... “The whole episode highlights the misguided notion that government-mandated speed-limiters on heavy trucks will contribute in any way to safety on our highways,” said Joanne Ritchie, executive director of the Owner-Operators Business Association of Canada... OBAC and the U.S.-based Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association oppose mandatory speed limiters on heavy trucks, which is one of six proposals in legislation Boulet filed Nov. 14 in the Quebec National Assembly...
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