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Article: Mexico Reduces Speed Limits as U.S. Trucks Enter Market
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 16, 1994
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico _ Mexico soon will reduce speed limits on
federal highways to 50 mph for most trucks and passenger buses
and will require truck owners to install mechanical devices to
guarantee that the limits are enforced, a federal highway
spokesman said.
The speed limit and installation of the mechanical devices, or
governors, will apply to all Mexican freight haulers, many buses,
and to U.S. truckers who will begin entering the country next
year, said Jesus Roldan, director of foreign press relations at
the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, or SCT, in
Mexico City.
The new limit _ 80 kilometers per hour as measured by Mexico's
metric system _ could be ...