Since July 1, the heavy goods vehicles registered in Quebec and Ontario must be equipped with speed limiter set to 105 km / h. The two Canadian provinces and line up several U.S. laws that already impose speed limits for trucks. The Group President Robert Transport, Claude Robert, do not hesitate to declare in the national press that “it would have preferred speed limiters at 100 km / h instead of 105.

The Robert Group is highly regarded in the Belle Province as a strong advocate of reducing speed. “It is 100 km / h at home for several years. Lamentations from those who say they can no longer go to 120, I do not understand! “Said Claude Robert, adding” for every mile above 60 mph, you lose about 2% efficiency for fuel economy. ”

We learn further that the carrier should québecois soon equip its entire fleet of lorries with a telemetry device that will track the fuel consumption of each vehicle.

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