Bru Peckett wrote: > Phil wrote ... > >> Interestingly, there was an item on our local news last night >> about this very topic. It was stated that if long distance >> haulers were fitted with speed limiters set for 105 kph >> [about 65 mph], the companies would save about $8000 [about >> 4,000 GBP] per year per truck on the cost of diesel fuel. >> Diesel costs about $1.06/53p per litre over here. >> >> One trucker interviewed agreed, but said that he would still >> rather have the capability to put his foot down under certain >> circumstances to get himself and his rig out of difficulty. > > In Europe they're already fitted with speed limiters governing top > speed to 56mph. And have been for yonks on bigger trucks (over 7.5 > tonne GW) with smaller trucks (over 3.5 tonnes GW) recently included.
Most of the heavies in the UK are too these days, though they sometimes take a while to wake up in the morning. 70 mph along the A27 in a first-floor flat is most disconcerting :-) -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> I'm just a primitive creature of the heath, so pardon my savage ignorance.
