SPEED KILLS
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• Speed kills, just like tiredness, complacency and bad habits when you are thundering down the M6 in bad weather with 38 tonnes of steel around you and enough kinetic energy to flatten a small block of flats.
This week Commercial Motor publishes an exclusive haulage survey. We asked 200 haulage companies if there is an HGV speeding problem on our motorways. They had the good sense to say yes there is, by a majority of three to two, and supported speed limiters by the same majority.
Read the detailed results of our opinion poll on pages 26 and 27 and you come to the inescapable conclusion that the problem is not in our minds, it is for real. The only problem is that the solution is in our minds, but we have not made it reality. More of you should be disciplining drivers found guilty of speeding. More of you should be checking your tacho charts for speeding traces, and more of you should be voluntarily fitting limiters. Hearts and minds have not been won over. We will not make the roads safer until all of us accept that there really is "No need to speed."