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If retrofitting of limiters is ruled out many operators in the PSV industry will be annoyed — PSV operators have had to fit 70mph limiters to virtually all their vehicles.
The move to mandatory speed governors has been gathering momentum in the past weeks. Last week the FTA announced that it was backing mandatory speed limiters. The RHA said it neither opposed nor supported the compulsory fitting of limiters.
A strong hint that limiters were going to be introduced as part of Construction and Use regulations came in January when Chope announced that he was "examining the issue seriously".
Although there no longef seems to be any widespread opposition to limiters, there are still some doubts about their effectiveness, Haulier WA Glendinning fitted them to several of its trucks two years ago and later removed them because the vehicles were inexplicably breaking down. "We downrated some vehicles to 32 tonnes because we wanted them as car transporters, which left the engines overated," says director Ken Glendirming. "But at least twice the limiters broke."