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• Three quarters of HGV driv( are regularly breaking the 40m speed limit on rural roads, acco ing to new figures released by 1 Department of Transport.
The study published last WE also reveals that a quarter of thc driving trucks on such roads ml larly top 50mph. Over half of tv axled HGVs also regularly break I 30mph speed limit in rural areas with almost 20% exceeding 35mi The survey found that the avi age speed for trucks an non-urb roads was almost exactly the sal as it was for cars, despite the tt that cars have a 60mph limit such roads. The same study d covered that 66% of car drive exceed the 30mph limit and a average speeds remained VE similar to those of four years ai