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Speed Limiters
Ontario and Quebec were the first North American jurisdictions to mandate speed limiters on trucks. Now U.S.
regulators are looking to introduce a similar mandate, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration consider limits between 95 and 110 kilometers per hour. This
month, readers offered their thoughts on speed limiters.
Do you believe mandating truck speed limiters
improves highway safety?
How do you think speed limiters
affect highway safety?
12 %
6 % %
YES
NO
Trucks need access to higher top speeds to steer out of danger 9%
36 % 51 % Speed limiters make no difference one way or another 9%
50 % IT’S THE LAW
3
Makes no
Other 17%
difference
either way
Trucks are safest when their top speeds are limited 30%
13 % Truck speeds should be based on the flow of traffic
and highway conditions alone
35%
“When trucks are a lot
slower than cars, then
What is the main reason your
the cars take a lot more
What should a truck’s top
fleet uses speed limiters?
risks trying to get in
speed be on the highway?
front of them.”
0 % Training
“Speed
29 % 31 %
“Much more
kills,
1.5 % Permit requirement
unsafe with
limiters. More
it’s that
9 %
To improve fuel economy trucks noseto-tail.”
19 %
simple.”
9 %
To improve highway safety
13 %
Not applicable
18 %
We don’t use them
Results are rounded to the nearest percent.
115 - 119
km/h
120 km/h
or higher
95 - 99
km/h
100 - 104
km/h
105 - 109
km/h
110 - 114
km/h
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SAFETY FEATURES
Today’s Trucking Pulse surveys are conducted once per month, covering a variety of
industry issues. To share your voice in future surveys, email johng@newcom.ca.
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