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* Australia - Drivers illegally tamper speed limiters
* NSW - Truck drivers' 'arms race' frustrates police
Sydney,NSW,Australia -SMH, by Rachel Olding -September 9, 2013: -- Truck drivers are becoming more sophisticated in their attempts to illegally tamper with speed limiters, raising concerns that authorities will never get on top of the dangerous practice... Despite waging a war on rogue operators in the past 18 months, police have watched the tampering escalate from truck drivers tinkering with a vehicle's pulse wheel to installing highly technical electronic devices to manipulate the speed limiter, a mandatory device that stops heavy vehicles from travelling over 100 km/h... Highway Patrol Commander, Stuart Smith, said they are even pulling over speeding trucks and finding laptops in the cabin with bootleg software that dials into the engine management system to re-wire the limiter...
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