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TRUCKS SAFETY * Canada: Dangers of lift axles
* Alberta - Transport truck safety in question
Edmonton,ALB,CAN -The Calgary Herald, by Darcy Henton -29 Sept 2014: -- The RCMP have stopped enforcing regulations governing lift axles on transport trailers because of a disagreement with Alberta Transportation over whether the devices are dangerous... RCMP K Division ordered an officer who raised alarm about the dangers of lift axles to “cease all enforcement actions” in May 2013, despite tests showing transports with axles lifted are less stable and more difficult to stop, according to e-mails obtained under the federal access to information act... The use of axles that can be raised to lift sets of wheels of transport trailers off the road is permitted in Alberta to reduce tire wear and fuel costs when the trailers are being pulled empty... But concerns were raised about the devices in 2010 after RCMP and industry officials conducted tests in Hanna and Namao... Alberta Transportation has downplayed the risk and RCMP note there are no known traffic fatalities attributed to lift axles...
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