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• The Department of Transport is expected to publish its plans for speed limiters on coaches in April — and it seems likely to impose wider restrictions than was originally envisaged.
Reliable sources indicate that the Dip plans to make speed limiters compulsory on all new coaches and buses from the start of next year. These regulations will apply on all PSVs with 16 or more seats (excluding the driver's seat).
All existing PSVs over 16 seats will be required to fit speed limiters by 1990.
The decision to apply the regulation to 16-seaters means that most of Britain's 4,500 minibuses will need to Speed limiters could be compulsory on all new coaches from the beginning of next year. be fitted with speed limiters.
The DTp is apparently still considering how to organise the calibration of speed limiting devices. One option is for the speed limiters to be calibrated by approved outlets. This would mean that speed limiter calibraters would need access to the insides of tachographs: a right currently accorded only to tachograph calibraters.
The Government hopes to start talks with coach operators in the next two months about the introduction of speed limiters, Junior Transport Minister Peter Bottomley has told MPs.
Work on drawing up a British standard for limiters is now nearly complete, he said in a Commons reply. Quizzed by MPs earlier this week Bottomley rejected criticism from one Tory MP who suggested that tachogaphs should be used instead. He pointed put that tachograhs could not be used as the basis for prosecuting people for exceeding the statutory speed limit.