Speed Limiters on Trucks Get
Support in Quebec
105 km Mandate Recommended by Quebec National
Assembly Commission
(TORONTO: June 14, 2006) – The proposal to
activate speed limiters on trucks is getting political support in Quebec.
An all-party committee of the Quebec National Assembly
is recommending that it be mandatory that speed limiters be activated on all
trucks and buses and that the maximum speed be set at 105 km/hr. The
Commission des transports et de l”environnement submitted its
report to the National Assembly June 8.
All members of the commission – which was
mandated by the National Assembly to examine specific road safety issues -- are
MNAs. The same commission made several other recommendations -- on the use of
cell phones, electronic speed detection on roads where police presence is
difficult, and winter tires. It is expected that the report will be debated in
the fall. The Quebec Trucking Association actively participated in the
deputations to the commission.
The developments in Quebec follow closely on the heels
of the passage at second reading of a private member’s bill in the Ontario
legislature that would make activation of speed limiters on trucks with a
maximum speed setting of no more than 105 km/hr mandatory for all trucks that
operate into, out of and within that province.
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