Motorist groups welcomed the change, but the Green Party said it would involve "greatly increasing the risk and severity of crashes".
Doubt it, as most trucks currently go 56mph on single carriageway roads - so there's a potential with the limit being raised to 50mph, that a lot of trucks might actually slow down!
In the old days (20+ years ago when I was a trucker) there were no speed limiters and it was "accepted" that on single carriageway roads trucks went 50mph. On dual carriageways and motorways trucks went 60mph. Obviously this depended on the road and was not done when unsafe
Since the limiters dropped max speeds to 56mph this made a lot of difference to the (main) motorway work which in turn led to trucks going faster on single lane roads, so in essence, this new rule might make things safer!
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