Logistics truck driver calls for speed limit increase
Date: 09 January 2008
A logistics truck driver has started a petition on the prime minister's website requesting that the speed limit for freight haulage vehicles be increased on some UK roads.
A higher speed limit for trucks from road haulage companies carrying loads would mean that they could make deliveries more quickly and efficiently.
Pete Milton has started a petition calling for the limit to be increased from 40mph to 50mph on some A-roads, RoadTransport.com reports.
He argues that this would make the roads safer for logistics drivers and motorists, because not so many people would try to overtake when it is not safe to do so.
"I'm fed up with suicide pilots overtaking the vehicle I drive, a wagon and drag, because I'm restricted to the 40mph limit," he said. "The limit is the largest reason for the stupidity shown by everyone who drives on the road trying to overtake in the most insane places."
Other petitions on the prime minister's website include one by Mark Jacobs to reduce the tax on petrol and diesel by 20p per litre.
He writes: "With the UK's failing public transport system, jobs being populated well away from where people live, the increasing cost of food and goods deliveries it is imperative that the government act now to bring fuel to a reasonable price."
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