Grayham:
Hell no, what there should be is a minimum motorway speed limit of 60mph for vehicles under 7.5 tonne which is properly enforced, keep the dawdling car drivers at a speed higher than that of trucks.
No thanks for that one… my camper with a town/country gearbox struggles with 60mph but is happy with 50mph and that weighs 5.6tons
mickyblue:
Kerbdog:
Grayham:
Hell no, what there should be is a minimum motorway speed limit of 60mph for vehicles under 7.5 tonne which is properly enforced, keep the dawdling car drivers at a speed higher than that of trucks.Yes, it should be 58 mph ! (oh and it’s ridiculous that a coach can do 62 mph on limit and a 3.5t sprinter is stuck at 56 like us)
I was having a right moan to myself about a coach who went past me like he had a rocket and was all over the place due to the wind blowing him. one minute he is in lane 1 and 2 at the same time and he then went for a overtake on a car who was sitting in lane 1 but he passed so close to him the car driver could have touched his coach. The coach was carrying people so why is it that they are allowed to risk the lives of the people on the coach and restrict trucks to 56mph, even though that isn’t the speed limit for trucks on motorways. Saying that we can still get done for speeding by Vosa if we go over our limiters
sprinter (type) vans 56 ■■?
animal:
In & around parts of Newcastle we have “No car lanes” they work well tbh but cars hate them & bus drier hate the fact we can use them
A690 into and out of Sunderland is the best example of this, zip in and out in next to no time
Harry Monk:
The Pasty man:
Certain streches of motorway round Rotterdam are bus & truck onlyNot just Rotterdam.
I like this, bring this to Edinburgh where every ■■■■■■ bus lane lays empty, whilst you sit in solid traffic wae your big dirty truck blowing out emissions 
That photo was taken off-peak, it’s a real hoot passing hundreds of stationary cars in the rush hour. 
Harry Monk:
The Pasty man:
Certain streches of motorway round Rotterdam are bus & truck onlyNot just Rotterdam.
Exeter, coming from the city towards topsham?
mucker85:
Exeter, coming from the city towards topsham?
Bang on.
There’s one other that I know of, on the A23 running up towards Croydon, I’m sure there was one at Wandsworth too?
Harry Monk:
mucker85:
Exeter, coming from the city towards topsham?Bang on.
There’s one other that I know of, on the A23 running up towards Croydon, I’m sure there was one at Wandsworth too?
I used to use that lane every day, was brilliant, especially when you got some plonker trying to ride the white line to prevent you making progress as they wanted to turn left at the lights.
We have some +2 lanes ont he A4174 ring road (Bristol) which as from last year (2011) can be used by HGV’s. Problem is, there are only 3 signs that tell you you can so if you’ve missed a sign (and don’t know about the lane use) then you’re sat in rush hour traffic for a while.
Then there are two lanes that are quite badly thought out and positioned that even as a car driver you get no benefit from using them.
What annoys me the most though, are the drivers that seem incapable of using timed restricted lanes properly.
What amazes is that in all European villages and towns they have a ring road or by pass for LGV traffic to use, at rush hour you do not get stuck in jams as you are out of the way of the commuters heading in to the centre for work.
This may have come about from a fatal accident where two trucks would not give way in a narrow village in France, where the road narrowed.
One was an ADR load, fuel or a chemical tanker, not sure which, and residents in the village perished in the collision.
Two UK examples would be Bath and Bristol, on the eastern side of Bristol they have a half built ring road coming from the Keynsham area,but no good if you heading to the motorway from Shepton Mallet going north or south, as there is no relief or ring road there.
Bath with its waste of money Bathampton by pass that did nothing to by passing the city, all they had to was link that by pass to go north or south of the city to join at the end going to Bristol, job done, the Nimbys put a stop to that.
In the Uk you grind to halt going through a city centre as that is the only way for the route.
In France they make you use a toll road to go past an area where there is a weight limit, then you drive a few km`s then hop off at the next 2 or 3 exits for a small price as an incentive to get the trucks to use it.
