TORONTO, Ont. -- The Quebec government has become the first jurisdiction to commit the Ontario Trucking Association's bid for mandatory speed limiters on trucks.

David Bradley, president of the OTA, said he is hoping that Quebec's initiative will help motivate the Ontario government to adopt a similar measure.

"All of the provincial trucking associations have endorsed the speed limiter proposal, so hats off to the Quebec Trucking Association and the Quebec government, for being first out of the gates," Bradley said. "When you combine the environmental benefits with the safety benefits, not to mention the fuel cost savings, it's hard to imagine why other governments won't follow, especially since Highway 401 between the Quebec border and Toronto is the last great inter-provincial truck route in Canada."

Quebec's decision to legislate the activation of truck speed limiters – a microchip that is built-in to every electronic truck engine produced since the mid-1990's – was contained in the province's Plan of Action on Climate Change, released June 15.

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