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Chalker campaigns to curb speeding lorries

2nd November 1985
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A MAJOR new campaign to get lorry drivers to slow down on motorways has been launched by Transport Minister Lynda Chalker.

It has been drawn up in conjunction with the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association to remind drivers of the need to obey all speed limits on every road with the onset of winter and more difficult driving conditions.

Chalker urges drivers to remember the phrase "Whatever the limit, keep within' it.'' In a letter to the FTA and the RHA, she says she often receives complaints that lorry drivers go too fast.

She believes the majority drive sensibly and considerately.

She asks good drivers to It.-ad by example, and managers to ask drivers to keep to the limits and to check tachograph charts.

Her letter will be repro duced in Mil in the NOV(2111ber editions of Freight and Roadway, the associations' magazines.

Posters have ,ilso been produced reminding drivers of the speed limits for heavy goods vehicles.

Advisory speed limit signs will he put up near to ports for the benefit of foreign drivers. Motorway service area managers are being asked to place signs near the exits from lorry parks.

Chalker wants the Road Transport Industry Training Board and group training associations to lay greater emphasis on safety.

Speaking in a radio interview on the BBC Chalker hinted that the Government would consider making stiffer penalties available to the courts if drivers continued to flout the law.

She threatened more frequent tachograph checks — there were 21,000 checks on drivers last year — ;ind the introduction of tamper-proof speed governers, provided that in moments of danger they could be overridden to allow the drivers to accelerate out of danger.

'Temporary speed limits on motorways will not be made mandatory, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley said.


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