*If* speed limiters are required how will it affect you?

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  1. mstrchf117

    mstrchf117 Medium Load Member

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    Cool, we don't have that here.
     
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  3. Trevor 57

    Trevor 57 Light Load Member

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    whilst not all legislation is good, this one targets those above the driver, like schedulers who make timelines that the driver can't achieve, like receivers who hold a driver up for hours while waiting to unload, like dispatchers who hold a driver up for hours waiting to be loaded, like forklift drivers who don't appropriately load the truck within its weight limits, or the schedulers who makes the load too heavy to start with. Businesses who let the truck leave without the load correctly restrained

    The CoR law relates to:
    • Driver Fatigue
    • Truck Weights
    • Truck Dimensions
    • Load Restraint
     
  4. mstrchf117

    mstrchf117 Medium Load Member

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    Yeah looked at it a bit, we could use that here lol right now I think it's more up to each individual party to cover themselves. A lot of the responsibilities fall on the driver. Ie we don't have much recourse if a customer runs us out of hours unloading. If we leave and have an accident that God forbids results in a fatality, there's no blowback on the customer.
     
  5. Studebaker Hawk

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    Let's review.
    HOS regulations requiring 10 hours off, 34 hour reset, 14 hours window. etc starting in 2003, with minor changes.
    20 years worth of data available to determine if it had the claimed safety benefits.
    ELD's required starting in 2017,
    5 years worth of data to determine if it had the claimed safety benefits.
    Speed limiters in Ontario-Quebec at least
    10 years worth of data to determine if it has had the claimed safety benefits.

    Has anyone done a serious study on any or all of them? No.
    Do you see a pattern? I do.
     
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  6. Trevor 57

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    we would never see that on Aussie roads, in fact you rarely ever see a spread axle like that on trailers. They used to be around when I started driving trucks in the 1970's but you don't see them that much now

    Overall truck length is governed:
    • for a combination other than a B-double, road train or a car carrier—19 metres (62.3 feet)
    • for a B-double—25 metres (82 feet)
    • for a road train—53.5 metres (175.5 feet)
    • for a car carrier —25 metres (82 feet)
    • for an articulated bus—18 metres (59.05 feet)
    • for a bus other than an articulated bus—14.5 metres (47.5 feet)
    • for another vehicle—12.5 metres (41 feet)
     
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  7. Trevor 57

    Trevor 57 Light Load Member

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  8. Tumbleweed TowMan

    Tumbleweed TowMan Medium Load Member

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    Well that's that.

    I too have never had bad things to say about Australians, but you are confirming my ponder that you lump all Americans as idiots.

    That ain't right.

    I am not into bashing whole countries because of the idiocy of some.

    Nor I am a part of your lump of Americans, but since I am to you, well ..... later.
     
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    2 feet of extra tractor frame isn’t gonna hurt any kangaroos…..:)
     
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  10. Trevor 57

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    it ain't the kangaroos that are the problem, it is the wild camels and free roaming cattle

    It is more about Government control. It is actually interesting looking at the common trucks in New Zealand, they have very different combinations to ours due the difference in road conditions
     
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