built up area
i can still do 40mph
Eh■■? 
Well he could if there were no signs advising of a speed limit lower than 40.
Just because it’s built up doesnt mean it’s automatically 30.
As a rule if its a built up area and there are street lights, then it’s generally a 30 limit.
ill try to explain better… there is 40mph limit on roads that are in a rural area , but in a city i can stiil do 40 even tho it is in a built up area, am i not making sense…
northernirishinlpool:
ill try to explain better… there is 40mph limit on roads that are in a rural area , but in a city i can stiil do 40 even tho it is in a built up area, am i not making sense…
Presumably that road in a built up area has a posted limit of 40mph.
I can see what you’re saying mate.
How can it make sense that I have to do 40, legally, on a big wide single carraigeway road in the country. In the same vehicle on a relatively narrow street, with houses on each side of it, I can still do 40, the posted limit■■?
This seems to be a common misconception among drivers,mainly the newer ones.
If your driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph,if you see a sign which says 40 you can still only do 30.
i.e. Your driving along a single carriageway in the middle of nowhere with national speed limit signs.You can do 40,cars can do 60.You then come to an area which is known to be an accident black spot.Because of this the powers that be decide to put up a 50 sign to slow cars down,what do you do? Do you speed up to 50? Your limit is still 40.
A posted speed limit sign doesn’t overide the maximum speed limit for a truck for that type of road.
i’m tired:
This seems to be a common misconception among drivers,mainly the newer ones.
If your driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph,if you see a sign which says 40 you can still only do 30.
Another one for the urban myth thread!
thats exactly what i mean simon…
so what your saying im tired is that in a 40 in a built up area i can only do 30…
if that is the case how are you suppose to know when to do 40 and when to do 30…
i’m tired:
This seems to be a common misconception among drivers,mainly the newer ones.
If your driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph,if you see a sign which says 40 you can still only do 30.
mrpj:
i’m tired:
This seems to be a common misconception among drivers,mainly the newer ones.
If your driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph,if you see a sign which says 40 you can still only do 30.
Yep, thats definately a misconception!
Mike-C:
mrpj:
i’m tired:
This seems to be a common misconception among drivers,mainly the newer ones.
If your driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph,if you see a sign which says 40 you can still only do 30.
Yep, thats definately a misconception!
Oh dear! Looks like someone’s got :
I’m sure I’ve read something similar to this ‘misconception’ before re the Aston Expressway (A38M), a motorway section with a max. speed limit of 50 mph where LGV drivers thought they needed to reduce their speed by the same margin as the cars. Didn’t it appear in the legal pages of C.M. a couple of years ago?
I feel like i’m wasteing my time but here goes anyway. 
On the A556 southwest out of Manchester there is a well known stretch of single carriageway on which truck drivers are forever getting tickets for doing more than 40,the sign clearly states 50.
Question.
If the sign clearly says 50 why are drivers getting tickets for doing under this.Could it be that the limit for their class of vehicle is 40?
READ THIS
(the last paragraph in the speed section)
i’m tired:
ICould it be that the limit for their class of vehicle is 40?
Correct, the speed limit for an LGV on a single carriageway is 40 but where does it say that “If your (sic) driving a truck in a built up area your maximum speed is 30 mph” ?
i’m tired:
I feel like i’m wasteing my time but here goes anyway.On the A556 southwest out of Manchester there is a well known stretch of single carriageway on which truck drivers are forever getting tickets for doing more than 40,the sign clearly states 50.
Question.
If the sign clearly says 50 why are drivers getting tickets for doing under this.Could it be that the limit for their class of vehicle is 40?READ THIS
(the last paragraph in the speed section)
Yes. So your point is what exactly? We weren’t on about that. We were referring to you saying that in built up 40mph limit areas, cars can do 40 but it’s 30 for trucks. Whatever gives you that idea? Please post a link to an official source (ie. DfT or VOSA) where you got that information from!
I really can’t be bothered…
i’m tired:
I really can’t be bothered…
You mean you’ve [zb] up and are now looking for a get-out?
i’m tired, you are wrong.
That secton of the A556 has no central reservation. This makes it a single carriageway road, hence the lower truck limit.
The posts above saying that “30 in a 40 for trucks” is a myth are correct. There is no such law.
Spoken as CPC holder, btw, not just a driver. 