CLEAR CONSCIENCE?
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• "He that is without sin among you, let the first stone ..." Given the cant and hypocrisy seem inextricably linked with any discussion speeding, we are not too surprised by the among certain members of the House of compulsory speed limiters would significantly speeding by trucks. Fitting a top speed limiter to a 38-tonner ing 60mph on the M6. But it will not stop travelling at 50mph in a built-up area on the local primary school is turning out.
Never mind the motorway, how many keep to the limits on A-roads? Moreover, column could honestly claim to have obeyed road during the past 48 hours? We can't. said we had.
Speed limits in the UK are virtually meaningless. alcohol in the bloodstream which determines little more than indicators of safety, interpreted according to his conscience and respect, If truck operators are to be mechanically speed limits, then no doubt in the spirit Stoddart will push for similar legislation Earl Ferrers has already astutely recognised.
If the House of Lords and the Department to curb speeding, by any road user, they in the first place? For the truck driver, up stuck in a traffic jam created by bungling building contractors the answer is obvious.
If a business executive is in a hurry it's these actions are understandable, they thing the DTp could do would be to lower wants to go any slower?.
Road accidents do not just happen. The the fact that none of us spend enough time sequences of our actions behind the wheel.
If more drivers stopped to think before ing to the head of a queue, tailgating on a side road, there would be fewer accidents, after all, is what defensive driving is all If the road haulage industry ends up limits, or worst still both, it could justifiably out and punished while others go free. But it will only have itself to blame.
If operators cannot train their drivers to be responsible for their actions, then when the wrath of God, or the House of Lords, lands on their heads they should not be surprised.