The American Trucking Association (ATA) is lobbying for the national American speed limit for trucks to be reduced. This would be enforced by requiring that the electronic speed limiter on all large trucks be set no higher than to 65 miles (104 km) an hour. The ATA has been lobbying for the legislation since 2006, according to ATA president and CEO, Bill Graves. “We waited patiently until the government finally said in January 2011 that they would move ahead with a speed limiter mandate, but this commonsense regulation has been mired in bureaucracy for over four years now,” he says. “In addition to slowing truck speeds, ATA believes in slowing down all traffic,” says Graves. “That’s why we back a national speed limit for all vehicles of 65 mph and are disturbed by the recent trend.”
