mandatory speed limiters on Ontario highways
 

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=TorontoHome
We all can say personal thanx to "Cansfield says the Ontario Trucking Association played a large role in pressuring the government to enforce mandatory speed limiters on Ontario highways." Does anybody knows - what's going to be next?????

Re: mandatory speed limiters on Ontario highways
 

So whats going to happen now ??? All of you that go up there going to install these speed limiters on your trucks ???

Re: mandatory speed limiters on Ontario highways
 

If you follow that link - look at the date in the right-hand corner: this story was published in July 2007. It's almost March 2008 now and nothing has transpired yet.

Looks like they're going to follow up on it.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Loc...57006-sun.html

http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=19290

They officially introduced the legislation 2 days ago

If I recall from the earlier discussions they had on this, they intended to enforce it on out-of-province trucks, although I have no clue how the hell they intend to accomplish that. I can just imagine every truck crossing the Ambassor Bridge at Detroit/Windsor heading to the Husky Truckshop to have their limiters adjusted to 65mph.
It makes more sense to just enforce the existing speed limit than create this bureaucratic boondoogle. Most trucks on the 400-series roads (equivalent to the Interstates) run 105-115 clicks (65-70 mph) without incident or much attention from the cops. Most four wheelers travel a minium of 120 (72mph) and often at 140-150 (87-93mph).
I'll agree to a limiter in trucks if they make it mandatory in cars.
Or even better, skip the damn limiters for either one, set a maximum of 120 for everybody and bring back photo radar. You bust over 120 and u get a ticket, period, no matter what your driving.
The real frustration up here is that the arsehole driving this plan is the president of the Ontario Trucking Association, a group that sure as hell doesn't represent the average driver or owner-operator. It's made up of mostly large interprovincial freight haulers who want to squeeze more profits out of reduced fuel consumption while bragging about what good corporate citizens they are. There was a good editorial piece in one of the trucking mags up here; if I can find it online, I'll post it (hopefully that's with the permission of the mods).
Professor427
P.S. Just found this at OOIDA's site.
http://www.ooida.com/action_alerts/2...d_limiters.htm

Last few times I've been on the 401 they've been enforcing quite well, and I've noticed the cars have been going much slower. Trucks are going 105 as well.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I've lived here all my 53 years and driven that road hundreds, if not thousands of times, and traffic certainly doesn't travel anywhere near 105km/h, especially in the London-Toronto portion of the 401.
I was just having this discussion on msn with someone else, and made the point that having trucks pass one another with a limiter will be like having elephants on the track during the Indy 500.
To be fair, I don't like being blown off by some Billy BigRig doin' 140km/h either, but I'd rather he paid the price for his behaviour via a ticket, than all of us forced to act like rolling roadblocks.

I don't know, I was in big smoke just a few days ago, and was shocked at how much slower everyone was going, four wheelers included.

I doubt the cars were going any faster then 120.

Here's an earlier response to this initiative by OOIDA and its Canadian counterpart, OBAC. I thought Joanne Ritchie made some excellent points, even though it appears the provincial government didn't listen.

http://www.obac.ca/DynamicWeb/englis...p?x=169&id=122