DfT to raise speed limits for lorries

Dom Browne

25 July 2014

The Department for Transport (DfT) is to raise the speed limit for lorries on single carriageways from 40 to 50mph next year, in a controversial move that Whitehall’s transport analysts believe could provide an £11m boost to the haulage industry.

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