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French truckers' initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions

The French Fédération Nationale des Transports Routiers (FNTR, or National Road Freight Federation) has issued a proposal to reduce CO2 emissions in freight transport. In the document (called Grenelle de l'environment), FNTR requests the authorities to modify certain legal aspects which would help make operations less polluting . Some proposals are quite unexpected. For instance, FNTR wants to ban any freight truck to speed over 80 km/h (50 mph). Currently, trucks can increase speed to 90 km/h (55 mph) in order to pass slower ... Read more →

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