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Here are some facts to consider when formulating your comments in reference to Docket #: NHTSA 2007 26851
- Every year, 5,000 people die and more than 130,000 people are injured in trucking accidents.
- As virtually every driver has experienced, many trucks travel at dangerously high speeds. We want a national rule that requires operational speed governors in trucks, limiting them to 68 miles an hour, with serious consequences for violators.
- When tractor-trailers and cars collide in fatal trucking accidents, 98 percent of the deaths occur in the cars.
- For a car to equal the force of a tractor-trailer, which weighs 80,000 pounds, traveling at 60 mph, the car would have to be speeding at over 300 mph. Limiting trucks to reasonable speeds will make our highways significantly safer while preserving truckers' important jobs.
- Adding speed governors does not pose a burdensome expense for truck drivers. All tractor-trailer trucks come equipped with governors, and safe drivers use them because they are aware that driving at safe speeds equates to truck driving safety. But too many truck owners don't use these governors, so they can travel as fast as they like. They do this at the public's dear expense.
- Adding speed governors to tractor-trailer trucks already has the support of The American Trucking Association, the largest national trade association for the trucking industry, as well as a core group of responsible carriers including Schneider National Inc., J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., CR England Inc., Covenant Transport Inc. and U.S. Xpress Inc.