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Diane and I shy away from the dark side so we are not attuned to such things, but this thread leads me to wonder; how much of an unlicensed, underground freight-transport market exists or can be expected to exist as this neverending stream of regulations lands on on licensed and...

The speed limiter push in the U.S. is coming mostly from the ATA is it not? I might be wrong, but I presume (unresearched) the executives who run and represent the ATA have a big-business, Republican bias.

And while you are sitting near the border in your gleaming, tricked-out, super Sprinter van with your speed-limiter equipment ready, waiting for your next call, you can work the load boards finding backhaul freight for expediters that pay you a small fee for doing so. Rent a parking space and...

See this from the Minnesota Trucking Association. We cannot know from the document that MTA supports the checklist. Reading it, I cannot imagine that they would. If they do, I can only conclude that the whole trucking world has gone crazy. I cannot believe that this thing is being taken...

With the new laws potentially creating new demand for such devices, it may well be that enterprising geeks or mechanics set up mobile services such that for a fee, a car can come to your truck to set and reset speed limiters for U.S. trucks crossing into the two provinces.

We have many more choices than that. Our present choice is stated above.

That's exactly what I am talking about when I say "developing situation." Insurance companies will react, over time, to the rules and trucker behavior under them, tossing in yet another variable. Carriers will react to insurance companies as they always have. One of the reasons U.S./Canada...

You are correct. We could refuse every Canadian load ever offered and still do a good business. The problem is the carrier rule requiring WG trucks to be eligible to go into Canada, thus the requirement to activate speed limiters for two provinces, whether we ever go to Canada or not.

Links please? We'd like to add these sources to our files.

All in good time. Nothing has to happen today, and even if our truck is speed-limited, we are under no obligation to take Canadian freight of any kind. This is a developing situation on several fronts. FDCC has already backed off a bit by announcing that the speed-limiters can be turned off...

Not only have we not seen the fines, we have not seen the rules come into existence yet under which the laws will be enforced and fines imposed, and we have made a healthy effort to find them.

If they have a lot of sealed Canada freight, Diane and I have not seen it. Checking the Extranet, I see that since 1/1/08, we have accepted six loads in or out of Canada and refused one. From memory, we know three of them were to provinces other than Ontario or Quebec. With the total number of...

The issue is with Ontario (and Quebec) first and my carrier second. Had the provinces not passed the truck speed limiter law, there woudl be no issue.

I know of no such equipment. If it is out there, I have yet to see or hear about it.

True. It is also true that no law is cast in stone and the speed limiter laws definitely are not. The agencies that are required to write the administrative rules the laws require have yet to complete the task, nearly six months after the law was passed. Before the agency rules have even been...

This drifts a bit off the speed-limiter topic but in response to your post let me ask. You are obviously proud of your military service and rightly so. When you served, did you ever notice the irony that soldiers who serve their country in the cause of freedom are among the least free people of...

And in western states, speeds are higher. So, depending on the point you want to make, the supporting scenario can be constructed and we can both be right. Just note that two of my examples above are real and the delivery scenario did not hapen anywher near home (it was Arizona).

The problem is speed limits in many U.S. states are higher than 105 kph (65 mph) and it does not sit well to limit the truck under the laws of two provinces that we rarely enter. Diane and I drive slower than many drivers to conserve fuel. Our customary open-road cruising speed is 55-60 mph...

Speed limiters have now surfaced as an election issue in Ontario. Some of the rules required by the law have yet to be written by the agencies legally required to write them. See this.