70% of UK truckers exceed 40mph-limit
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lili Truck drivers are the worst speeding offenders on nonmotorway roads, according to Department of Transport figures published last week.
Checks using electronic scanners showed that 70% of HGVs exceeded their 40mph speed limit on single carriageways, compared with 10% of car drivers breaking their 60mph limit.
On dual carriageways, more than 75% of HGVs of three axles or more exceeded their limit.
But on motorways HGV drivers were more law abiding than motorists.
Only 40% of HGVs broke the 60mph limit, compared with 60% of car drivers who went over their 70mph limit, the checks showed.
And only 19% of drivers of buses and coaches broke their 70mph limit on motorways. Li The Government's decision to set different UK speed limiter rules from the EC is a "recipe for complication, confusion and additional costs," says Freight Transport Association director general Garry Turvey.
Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind 'completely rejected the industry's views," according to Turvey.