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SPEED LIMITS * USA - New truck speed limits start July 1
ODOT changes road signs Weds. and Thurs.
OH,USA -abclocal/WTVG -June 30, 2009: -- A change in state law will allow most trucks to go 65 miles-per-hour on many of Ohio's interstates starting July 1. The change applies only to interstates - not U.S. routes, state routes or other multi-lane divided highways - where currently the speed limits are split between 65 mph and 55 mph... Ohio Department of Transportation crews will update hundreds of speed limit signs across the state... At locations where signs are already separated - one sign for 65 mph and another for 55 mph for vehicles weighing more than 4 tons empty - outdated signs and posts will be removed... (Image from imgres?imgurl: The beginning of OH 4 South) 
* Truck safety advocates push to mandate speed-limiting devices
The American Truckers Assns. support the effort, and the Obama administration may be willing to consider the move. Independent truckers and conservatives are opposedWashington,DC,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon -July 1, 2009: -- Stephen Owings, whose 22-year-old son died when his car was rear-ended, is fighting to have the federal government require the use of speed-limiting devices on all big rigs, saying: "We're not against truckers; we're pro-highway safety."... Most often, citizen-crusaders find themselves in lonely, unequal struggles against industry groups and lobbyists. But this time, David and Goliath seem to be on the same side... Owings has drawn support from the American Trucking Assns., or ATA, in his effort to get the U.S. Department of Transportation to require the use of the speed-inhibiting devices on big trucks -- or get Congress to mandate them in a highway bill soon to be drafted... On the other side are conservatives who oppose government regulation of business as a matter of principle, truckers who own their own big rigs, and owners of smaller fleets represented by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Assn.... These include drivers such as Julia Scott, who said that from the cab of her 18-wheeler she sees passenger cars doing a lot more dangerous things than big trucks. If the government is going to require governors on trucks, she said, "they need to put speed-limiting devices in the cars."... Both proponents and opponents of such regulation defend their positions in terms of public safety... (Photo from autoevolution: the female truck drivers of the road)
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