federal motor vehicle safety standards federal motor carrier safety regulations parts and accessories necessary for safe operation speed limiting devices 32 pages in english prenhtsa and fmcsa are proposing regulations that would require vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 11 793.4 kilograms 26 000 pounds to be equipped with a speed limiting device initially set to a speed no greater than a speed to be specified in a final rule and would require motor carriers operating such vehicles in interstate commerce to maintain functional speed limiting devices set to a speed no greater than a speed to be specified in the final rule for the service life of the vehicle.specifically nhtsa is proposing to establish a new federal motor vehicle safety standard fmvss requiring that each new multipurpose passenger vehicle truck bus and school bus with a gross vehicle weight rating gvwr of more than 11 793.4 kilograms 26 000 pounds be equipped with a speed limiting device. the proposed fmvss would also require each vehicle as manufactured and sold to have its device set to a speed not greater than a specified speed and to be equipped with means of reading the vehicles current speed setting and the two previous speed settings including the time and date the settings were changed through its on-board diagnostic connection.fmcsa is proposing a complementary federal motor carrier safety regulation fmcsr requiring each commercial motor vehicle cmv with a gvwr of more than 11 793.4 kilograms 26 000 pounds to be equipped with a speed limiting device meeting the requirements of the proposed fmvss applicable to the vehicle at the time of manufacture including the requirement that the device be set to a speed not greater than a specified speed. motor carriers operating such vehicles in interstate commerce would be required to maintain the speed limiting devices for the service life of the vehicle.based on the agencies review of the available data limiting the speed of these heavy vehicles would reduce the severity of crashes involving these vehicles and reduce the resulting fatalities and injuries. we expect that as a result of this joint rulemaking virtually all of these vehicles would be limited to that speed. pre