EU truck safety and efficiency law faces delay until 2019

(EurActiv, 11 Dec 2014) A European Union law agreed late on Wednesday (10 December) to make trucks safer and more aerodynamic, cutting fuel bills, emissions and improving safety, will be delayed by around five years, after the industry pushed for more time to develop new vehicles.

The law will allow trucks to have longer, more aerodynamic noses similar to the shape of high-speed trains from around 2019.

Until now new designs had been hampered by limits on the weight and size of vehicles.

Member states, led by France and Sweden, had originally pushed for a five-year moratorium on the new designs, which would have delayed their introduction to around 2024, because of the need to develop new safety requirements first.

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EurActiv, 11 Dec 2014: EU truck safety and efficiency law faces delay until 2019