Ontario to require speed limiters for big trucks

Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield says big rigs will soon be travelling more slowly along Ontario highways.

The Ontario government is making it mandatory for all large commercial vehicles to use speed limiters, Cansfield said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

…The Ontario Trucking Association says all trucks built in the last decade are already equipped with speed limiting technology and they estimate that speed limiters will save a typical tractor trailer 10,500 litres of diesel fuel every year.

They also expect speed limiters to reduce the number of severe accidents involving large commercial trucks.

Canadian Press