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    Conflicting regulations

    Aug 13, 2020 4 minutes
    Ken Wilkie

    ARE WE being managed by a mob of idiots or what? I expect after this edition I might also become a marked person. Who gave the tick for those 106 tonne combinations to run the Newell? Not the drivers of 68 tonne B-doubles, rest assured. One combination at 60-plus tonnes with a speed limit of 100 clicks per hour on a predominately single lane road with a dearth of overtaking lanes being forced to travel with another combination grossing considerably more than 100 tonnes at 90km/h?

    There is one prominent organisation that has for a long time limited its fleet to 90km/h in the

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