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• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is backing calls for inspections of truck speed limiters to be included in forthcoming speed limiter legislation.
RoSPA says legislation will be wasted "unless regular checks are made on the accuracy of limiters". Government proposals leave regulation of speed limiters to the industry, although
companies installing them will have to be authorised by the Vehicle Inspectorate (CM 5-11 Sept).
"It's too risky to assume that all limiters will be set to the correct level," says RoSPA. "The only way that incorrectly calibrated equipment will be spotted is if the vehicle is caught speeding by police or by an alert vehicle inspector during a tachograph check." The society calls on the Government to redraft the regulations "as a matter of urgency".
However, a Government spokesman says that there is no justification for a separate legal requirement for the inspection of speed limiters, "particularly as tachographs have to be inspected at two and six-yearly intervals", he says.