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| Stop Distance Rule: Coming Summer '08
Stop Distance Rule: Coming Summer '08 1/23/08 Quote:
LAS VEGAS -- A U.S. rule requiring a 20 to 30 percent stopping-distance reduction for highway trucks will be officially announced this summer, a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) official confirmed this week.
Speaking at the Heavy Duty Dialogue conference in Las Vegas, NHTSA Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, Stephen Kratzke, said a detailed final rule is imminent. The rule requires that trucks be spec'ed with more advanced braking to achieve the new standard. It's been said that a rule requiring closer to 20 percent can be satisfied with bigger S-cam brakes. But far more expensive air disc brakes will most definitely take a larger role in the North American market assuming a 30 percent reduction is legislated.
Kratzke wouldn't say where on that spectrum NHTSA rulemakers have settled, but acknowledged that most of the comments he's received indicate that industry prefers a 20 percent reduction rule.
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