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Sep 7, 2010

Speed Traps * Canada & USA - And they need speed limiters, why?

Toronto is the speed-trap capital of North America


(Video from YouTube, by electroboyto -01Sep10: (Eglinton Ave E & Jonesville Road @ 0820hrs EDT)- an incompletely-uniformed police officer hides behind a lamp post with a radar gun aimed into oncoming traffic. The officer then steps out from behind their hiding space to direct a vehicle onto a side street... Is this a fair practice? I DON'T THINK SO!! If the police department is going to be conducting a speed trap, it should be completely and totally visible and unobstructed. Instead, they're HIDING and ENTRAPPING motorists who then face fines from $15 - $??? and other service fees - to say nothing of the affect a ticket has on their already-high insurance premiums!... I just hope some of the people ticketed in this manner as as infuriated as i am at this tactic and are fighting these tickets in court!)

Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -2 Sept 2010: -- According to an American organization called the National Motorists Association, Ontario’s capital has more speed traps than Montreal, L.A., and the Big Apple combined... The stats are a product of the organization’s National Speed Trap Exchange, an online listing of all the most common traps across North America... The listing is actually a very valuable resource, particularly for companies sending trucks to unfamiliar lanes. For example, if you have somebody going down Franklin Avenue in Yellowknife, watch for radar near the entrance to the Garden Apartments... The NMA, started in 1982, is basically a drivers’ rights group. According to its website, "the premise of the National Motorists Association is that if motorists will join together in one organization to represent their rights and interests as drivers, they will no longer be ignored and exploited by federal, state and local governments" ...
(Image from: www.speedtrap.org)
As for Toronto, the organization says that more than 250 speed traps have been reported over the past few years. Montreal had 65, Los Angeles had 155 and New York City 30...

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May 25, 2008

BILLS * Australia - Blame for speeding truckies to be shared

Truckies who speed and take drugs to stay awake will no longer be the scapegoats for big companies setting unrealistic deadlines



Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Lisa Carty -May 25, 2008: -- ... New laws to be introduced in NSW mean businesses sending and receiving goods on the road can also be charged and fined if truckies break speed and fatigue laws... Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal will extend "chain of responsibility" laws, introduced in 2005 to cover overloading, to ensure all players cop the rap if truckies are pushed beyond their limits... The fines were yet to be set but under the overloading laws, penalties of up to $220,000 apply for the most serious, repeat offences... A 2006 study found one in five long-haul truckies used illegal drugs to stay awake in order to meet unrealistic deadlines; another study in the same year found one in four truck drivers is pressured to break the speed limit to meet deadlines... Transport Workers' Union state secretary Tony Sheldon welcomed the new laws, saying truckies were the least powerful people in the transport chain... Australia Trucking Association CEO Stuart St Clair said the changes meant responsibility would be shared... The legislation will be introduced to parliament next month... (Video from YouTube, by daz72m - March 09, 2008: "Australian Roadtrains" - Australian Roadtrains including Kenworths, Macks & Western Stars)

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Mar 22, 2008

TRUCKS' SPEED * Ireland - Truck drivers getting speeding message

Drumnsa,Ireland -HGV Ireland -21 Mar 2008: -- Truck drivers are finally getting the message to slow down, according to figures just released by the Road Safety Authority (RSA)... Figures released in the RSA “Free Speeds Survey” show that there has been an improvement in the number of articulated truck drivers obeying the vehicle speed limit on motorways and dual carriageways (80km/h for these type of vehicles) and on regional and local roads (80km/h), where a reduction from 45% offending to 9% was significant...

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