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Nov 12, 2012

TRUCKS SAFETY * UK

* Road haulage and Freight Interests Speak Up on Truck Speeds
London,EN,UK -Handy Shipping Guide -12 November 2012: -- Last week, prompted by a Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned report by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) the department launched a Consultation on the question of the permitted speeds of heavy trucks travelling on A roads prompting both the Road Haulage Association (RHA) and the Freight Transport Association (FTA) to make their respective organisation’s positions on the matter clear... To the uninformed the thought of allowing HGV’s to travel at higher speeds on single carriageway roads might seem irrational but the fact that a long vehicle is forced to travel at some 20 miles per hour slower than other traffic inevitably leads to tailbacks, driver frustration and dangerous overtaking manoeuvres by smaller, faster vehicles...

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