fuse:
Well I think the 50 mph brigade are selfish and are a danger to others on the motorway, they should be made to watch a film of the pantomime behind you lot, it is bad enough with cars now doing 45 …50 to save fuel.I have just lately been getting stuck behind cars in the truck no overtake lanes …why not just get rid of motorways and use the hard shoulder as a lane if pricks are going to set there own little speed limit.
At least if the truck is limited to 50mph you know it’s not gonna suddenly speed up and leave you stranded in lane 2
merc0447:
I like sitting at 50mph nice and peaceful our trucks could never get limited down as our night trunks are too tight already so ive got the best of both worlds do 50mph but have an extra 6mph for hills and the like.
Also someone correct me if i wrong but tesco aren’t limited to 50mph their trucks can do 56mph but each driver gets a isotrack report if thy got over 50. So its the driver that is limited not the truck? Thats my understanding of tesco trucks.
You’re wrong. Consider your self corrected!
Yep limited to 80Kph with a sign on the back to let others know.
fuse:
‘… the 50 mph brigade are selfish and … a danger to others on the motorway, they should be made to watch a film of the pantomime behind …’
How about specifically addressing this to the TM’s, company accountants, KJ’s and/or other techie-geek-types who actually make the decisions, install the software or make the choice to grovel at slothspeed, etc, since I, as a wheel monkey trying to earn a wedge am toothless to do jack-squat about it.
Or perhaps live with it to avoid being divisive amongst fellow professionals or simply prove the science wrong that knowledgeably informs us that given our planet’s environment, lower velocity improves all efficiencies except those for ‘time taken’
fuse:
‘… the 50 mph brigade are selfish and … a danger to others on the motorway, they should be made to watch a film of the pantomime behind …’
How about specifically addressing this to the TM’s, company accountants, KJ’s and/or other techie-geek-types who actually make the decisions, install the software or make the choice to grovel at slothspeed, etc, since I, as a wheel monkey trying to earn a wedge am toothless to do jack-squat about it.
Or perhaps live with it to avoid being divisive amongst fellow professionals or simply prove the science wrong that knowledgeably informs us that given our planet’s environment, lower velocity improves all efficiencies except those for ‘time taken’
If I remember rightly the same people moaned like hell when speed limiters were first introduced but the world and the wheels kept turning, albeit more slowly. What will they say when its 45mph ■■
raymundo:
‘… If I remember rightly the same people moaned like hell when speed limiters were first introduced but the world and the wheels kept turning, albeit more slowly. What will they say when its 45mph …?’
They’ll likely be momentarily cheesed-off a bit, but fear not: Help is at hand.
I’m betting that there are plans afoot in undemocratic, European places for the UK to run on ‘foreign mph’ - sometime in the future - so it’ll be the kph equivalent
That’s because we’re lucky that Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty on our behalf, therby making sure in his last months of office that we’re now stripped naked and strapped to all EU mandates that we can have no vote upon.
So, we’ll all have to accept what we’re told rather than be bigotted about foreigners that trash our culture
I drove for maritime for 11 years and towards the end of my time with them i joined the 52mph club its false economy and dangerous as well, the people what make the trucks spend a lot of time and money setting the engines to run at 56mph for the best performance and economy and then some bright spark of a manager thinks he can save money by having the limiter knocked down
Mrknowitall:
‘…i joined the 52mph club its false economy and dangerous…’
‘…Economy…’ depends on how one calculates one’s business priorities and ‘…dangerous…’ is surely only so if the driver is as switched on as plankton?
Mrknowitall:
‘…setting the engines to run at 56mph for the best performance and economy …’
That speed is the mph equivalent mph figure as dictated by the European Union since operators clearly consider ‘…the best performance and economy…’ to be what they are revising down to.
Mrknowitall:
‘…i joined the 52mph club its false economy and dangerous…’
‘…Economy…’ depends on how one calculates one’s business priorities and ‘…dangerous…’ is surely only so if the driver is as switched on as plankton?
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There is quite a few occasions where upon approaching slip roads for people to join the motorway you will find it impossible to move over and create a space. Mr lorry driver on the sliproad has no intention of backing off to filter in. Mr 56 mph in lane 2 has no intention of letting you out because your inferior lorry is too slow.
So here we are in the middle of a great big ■■■■■■■ truck sandwich and the one who is going to lose the most is you playing piggy in the middle.
You have to back off which then firther bunches up the hordes of trucks jockeying for posistion to get past you.
So yes I agree , knocking the trucks down is just stupid and as in that example above can prove to be dangerous because the planks around you will not give way to a slow truck. So much for solidarity huh ?
You are only in the above situation because you are not up to “speed” and everyone says ■■■■■■■■ to that guy/girl. I can pretty much be 99.9% certain if you were upto 56mph mr lane 2 lorry driver would ease off a little and let you move over and get out of the way of the impending doom joining lane 1.
paul@midway:
There is quite a few occasions where upon approaching slip roads for people to join the motorway you will find it impossible to move over and create a space. Mr lorry driver on the sliproad has no intention of backing off to filter in. Mr 56 mph in lane 2 has no intention of letting you out because your inferior lorry is too slow.
i say bigger fool him/her, i sure as ■■■■ wont back off if i can’t move over i stay put, driver on the sliproad has no choice! bulk trailors tend to make a mess of a cab
paul@midway:
So here we are in the middle of a great big [zb] truck sandwich and the one who is going to lose the most is you playing piggy in the middle.
You have to back off which then firther bunches up the hordes of trucks jockeying for posistion to get past you.
So yes I agree , knocking the trucks down is just stupid and as in that example above can prove to be dangerous because the planks around you will not give way to a slow truck. So much for solidarity huh ?
You are only in the above situation because you are not up to “speed” and everyone says ■■■■■■■■ to that guy/girl. I can pretty much be 99.9% certain if you were upto 56mph mr lane 2 lorry driver would ease off a little and let you move over and get out of the way of the impending doom joining lane 1.
Now i’m far from perfect, but if see i’m not getting infront of the wagon already on the carriageway, then i ease to speed that will allow me to join safely. if that means backing off to 45/50 then thats what i’ll do.
after all the law is quite clear, the sliproad is a junction, and anything already on the carriageway has right of way.
Car drivers and some lorry drivers NEED to remember this!
If your truck is limited to 56mph (factory set) and you drive at 50-52mph most trucks may use less fuel? But if your truck is limited to 50-52mph (not factory set) and less pulling power more gear changes then it is obvious that most trucks that have had there power/speed cut down would use more fuel.
Also if you come across any truck that is slower than yours as professonal drivers we all know we have to give them the time and space as it may not be there fault.
couldn’t be doing with that crap.
the speed limit is 60mph, if they speced the trucks correctly, then they could do 60mph at the same revs, and same fuel consumption as a 50mph truck.
i’d just have to knock off the limiter.
50mph, my arse.
paul@midway:
i say bigger fool him/her, i sure as [zb] wont back off if i can’t move over i stay put, driver on the sliproad has no choice! bulk trailors tend to make a mess of a cab
I had this situation recently on M25 at J29 towards Dartford Crossing. I am in nearside lane, being overtaken by 7.5 tonner when foreigner comes up sliproad and has no intention of stopping and actually drove along hardshoulder til he forced his way in front of me.
Are you suggesting that I just drive into him, because he is in the wrong.
It is drivers with this immature attitude that cause the delays when they have accidents.
Thats od from Colluna , a while back they sacked a driver for not doing a run because he said he had not enough time left, when I read the case he was right he would have had to exceed the speed limit to do it,he did not get support from anyone so got the sack
fuse:
Thats od from Colluna , a while back they sacked a driver for not doing a run because he said he had not enough time left, when I read the case he was right he would have had to exceed the speed limit to do it,he did not get support from anyone so got the sack
That is one of the problems with muppets rushing around and exceeding speed limits, the management expect everyone else to do the same. The speeders haven’t got the brains to realise that they are the one’s that ruin this job.
Im not suggesting if hgvs were limited to 60mph you have got to drive like an idiot . My truck is limited to 56mph but i cruise at 52 mph most of the time when it is safe to do so, and if i need a bit more speed i have got the extra. And i also weigh up things for example: slowing up if someone needs to join a motorway or duel carridgeway and if someone is struggilng to get past i slow down and let them pass.
its false economy and dangerous as well, the people what make the trucks spend a lot of time and money setting the engines to run at 56mph for the best performance and economy and then some bright spark of a manager thinks he can save money by having the limiter knocked down 
