RHA and FTA hit back on limiters
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• In its reply to Dip proposals on speed limiters, the Freight Transport Association says the weight breakpoint for the retrospective fitment of speed limiters to artics should be 32.5 tonnes. It also wants the deadline for retrospective compliance to be postponed "until at least 31 July 1994" because a deadline before arrangements for calibration and sealing are in place "would be positively detrimental to operators".
The Road Haulage Association is "strongly opposed" to the retrospective fitment of limiters to drawbar combinations, not least because the DTp is "unable to make an objective cost benefit assessment of its effect".
The FTA says that retrospective legislation should only apply to those rigids "where a drawbar trailer is drawn and then only where the rigid vehicle has a GTW in excess of 32.52 tonnes". Both associations want retrospective fitment to apply only to vehicles first registered on or after August 1990.