ETS:
Conor:
you said you were doing 98kph which is over 60MPH,Well it’s not my best, I’ve done better.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
golden rule.
you dont get points for “forgetting” to put on your rear number plate after making sure your unit one has black grease on at least 1 digit… 
dieseldog999:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
golden rule.
you dont get points for “forgetting” to put on your rear number plate after making sure your unit one has black grease on at least 1 digit…
Tough luck, I drive a rigid 
Franglais:
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10miles at 45mph takes 0.222hr.
Multiply by 60 that’s 13min 20sec.
50mph it’s 12min.
Over ten miles an overtake saves 1min 20 seconds. If nearer the end of the section even less time saved.
On a four hour drive that equals over five minutes. That can make the difference over whether or not you make it to your destination, get to a ■■■■■■■■■■■■, arrive before the canteen sells out of bacon butties or finish your shift and get home to your steak dinner before the wife gives it to the door to door salesman (the steak dinner, not something else).
Not that this bothers me, I’m hourly paid and take my own sandwiches. 
ETS:
Tough luck, I drive a rigid
Wow. 
I try and avoid some of the drivel you post, but a mate of mine off here pointed this out to me, we were having a conversation about gob ■■■■■ s on here and funnily enough your name cropped up.
So I’ve responded to this, because seriously mate, …you’re the Trucknet gift that keeps on giving.
First you try and have a pop at me on numerous occasions about me living in a desirable semi in the countryside, that just happens to be owned by my local council, (to which you seem to have a problem with) then you divulge that you live in some grotty flat rented off a private landlord yourself.
Now you tell us after having a past pop at a vastly experienced national and international driver, who has done just about everything in road haulage…(namely me) by saying I’m a… …quote: ‘‘Crap driver’’ , to then inform us that you drive something just bigger than a wheelbarrow on a ■■■■ night trunk. 
Comedy gold mate, …just promise to keep on posting, you are an eternal source of amusement to everyone on here.
To get back to your thread, the only thing you were a ‘‘victim’’ of was your own arrogance and stupidity, you ignored the speed limit, so at least have the grace and humility to hold your hands up, and ■■■■ it up, instead of bleating on about it ffs.
I tend not to comment on ets,s drivel anymore, BUT I couldn’t have put it better rob. 
Victim of a revenue camera
Does your truck not come fitted with brakes?
Easy way for those “revenue cameras” to not make any revenue is to obey the speed limit. Simple concept.
Nite Owl:
Franglais:
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10miles at 45mph takes 0.222hr.
Multiply by 60 that’s 13min 20sec.
50mph it’s 12min.
Over ten miles an overtake saves 1min 20 seconds. If nearer the end of the section even less time saved.On a four hour drive that equals over five minutes. That can make the difference over whether or not you make it to your destination, get to a ■■■■■■■■■■■■, arrive before the canteen sells out of bacon butties or finish your shift and get home to your steak dinner before the wife gives it to the door to door salesman (the steak dinner, not something else).
Not that this bothers me, I’m hourly paid and take my own sandwiches.
I`ll stand by my point that overtaking illegally in a restriction will save next to SFA, but will agree that on a long, steady, run a few mph can make a significant difference.
Better for your waistline to arrive ten minutes later tho: bacon butties sold out? Get a salad.
Franglais:
Nite Owl:
Franglais:
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10miles at 45mph takes 0.222hr.
Multiply by 60 that’s 13min 20sec.
50mph it’s 12min.
Over ten miles an overtake saves 1min 20 seconds. If nearer the end of the section even less time saved.On a four hour drive that equals over five minutes. That can make the difference over whether or not you make it to your destination, get to a ■■■■■■■■■■■■, arrive before the canteen sells out of bacon butties or finish your shift and get home to your steak dinner before the wife gives it to the door to door salesman (the steak dinner, not something else).
Not that this bothers me, I’m hourly paid and take my own sandwiches.
- 5mph difference over 4 hrs means?
20miles.
So, at 50mph, that`s 24 minutes…Yes. You are correct, over 5mins. (By a lot!)- You only gave a partial quote.
I was responding to TruckDriverBen talking about overtaking at 50mph in restrictions. Not many of them go on for 200miles do they?I`ll stand by my point that overtaking illegally in a restriction will save next to SFA, but will agree that on a long, steady, run a few mph can make a significant difference.
Better for your waistline to arrive ten minutes later tho: bacon butties sold out? Get a salad.
First off, let me apologise for my dodgy maths. Seems I misunderstood what you were trying to show. 
Secondly, please dont swear at me again. Salad? Ffs man, I’ve spent most of my life dodging them!!!
On a serious note now, I get your point and agree with it completely. It might be because I’m hourly paid, maybe it’s because I’m older or maybe one day I did the maths correctly and figured out that there isn’t a big enough time advantage to justify driving like a bell end, but sitting behind a rolling roadblock at 40mph doesnt bother me as much as it used to.
ETS:
Juddian:
You weren’t a victim, you ignored the speed limit.They could put a speed limit of 40 (like they often do) warning of a “queue ahead” where there is no queue at all and I’ve seen people get flashed because they couldn’t brake in time for the camera. I’d rather donate the money to “Sponsor a child soldier in Africa” charity because [zb] Sad ■■■■ Khan and his cancerous city and the useless M25
Now I finally understand those poor wimps who always do 48 in a 50
What are you talking about the slip road is still part of the motorway, ie J,K,L and M slip … all revenue raised from fines… from drivers whom are ignorant to the speed limit deserve points. Fact remains, limits are there to protect workers. (If no worker were present it doesn’t matter) the risk assessment stated that the limit needed to be as it were at that time… ■■■■ it up TFL won’t get any of the revenue … the central government will.
Carryfast:
Anyone is a victim if it’s an unreasonable limit ( that’s most of those below the national speed limit on motorways ).Put there with the intention of criminalising road users to raise revenues and for political reasons to make road use less attractive.Also doubt that any part of the M25 comes under Khan’s remit certainly not the majority of it.
Here goes with more drizzle, the risk assessment says it is 50 for a reason … it’s not to raise funds it is to protect the road workers … they do not just say I No what, let’s set it at 50 tonight. It’s arranged months in advance… the speed will be set by the RCC, be it south mimms or Godstone.
If a driver, does ignore a legal speed limit he deserves the fines. As said it is all owned by Highways England …Khan has nothing to do with the M25.
He was doing 98kph in a puddle jumper …
was someone giving him a push?
peirre:
He was doing 98kph in a puddle jumper …
was someone giving him a push?
Downhill , do-able ( good bit on AWPR 62mph downhill for about 90 seconds ! )
or prelimiter
Why put yourself through all the grief waiting for a NIP in the post just stick to the limits or a little below, hang back from the elephant racing clowns and chill out worst of all most of these drivers are hourly paid so not only are you giving away £100 of your hard earned your getting paid less in the process.
You see the idiots all the time and you think to yourself was that death defying move worth the 3 seconds you just gained, 2 reasons for it, your brain and logic are not connected therefore you will never be suited to the job or the job you have is ■■■■■ time to look for a new one.
mike68:
Why put yourself through all the grief waiting for a NIP in the post just stick to the limits or a little below, hang back from the elephant racing clowns and chill out worst of all most of these drivers are hourly paid so not only are you giving away £100 of your hard earned your getting paid less in the process.You see the idiots all the time and you think to yourself was that death defying move worth the 3 seconds you just gained, 2 reasons for it, your brain and logic are not connected therefore you will never be suited to the job or the job you have is [zb] time to look for a new one.
It never ceases to amaze me these clowns who WILLINGLY risk their licences and livelihood on a daily basis either to save all of 5 mins in their endurance test rat race of a day, and/or to make their firms an extra couple of quid. .
They are too ■■■■ thick to realise the more they allow themselves to be rushed the more they get rushed by their boss.
You try and point out this to them but you may as well be talking a foreign language, then you realise you are wasting your time, as you can never educate pork.
Back in the mid-90s I was made redundant and swapped my management desk for a steering wheel after ten years away. The agency I signed up to sent me on a job delivering car parts to what was then the Landrover warehouse next to Birmingham airport.
The first delivery was early morning, but I came out in full-on rush hour. The route back to the M42 meant taking a slip road onto the A45, driving a short distance, and then the slip road off. There was always a long queue for the roundabout at the top, which was made worse by the hurry-up merchants who bombed down the outside lane and then forced their way on to the slip; much the same as you get when two lanes merge into one.
I found myself getting worked up by this and started pushing over to my right to block them; frequently causing near-misses, hand waving and hooting. After a week or so of this, I was sitting there, listening to Terry Wogan and it dawned on me how stupid I was being. All my aggressive driving might save a few minutes on the drive back to the depot, but that was no benefit to me whatsoever, especially since I would probably be kept hanging around for hours while they loaded me up for a second trip.
I decided then and there that I would relax and stay in the queue, wherever it was and however much of a hurry I, or my employers, though I should be in. At Blake’s, where I was later sent, I got stick for driving the A46 at 40mph, while the other drivers wanted their pedals to the metal, but I didn’t care - my licence, my decision. I am far from perfect - I got three points for running a red light in Coleshill and, years later a Speed Awareness Course for doing 58 on the Oxford bypass (I was in my car trying to get away from a tangle of trucks and caravans.
Attitude of mind is the key: I used to watch the car drivers fighting for space on the A45 slip road and tell myself; “I am being paid by the hour.” When some wannabe Lewis Hamilton is desperate to overtake me, I think to myself; "Maybe his house is on fire, or his wife is giving birth and let them go as soon as I can.
Was doing 50 in the M5 roadworks a couple of cars flew past me and the camera flashed.
Are they smart enough to differentiate between the speeder and the guy driving within the limit.
robroy:
Was doing 50 in the M5 roadworks a couple of cars flew past me and the camera flashed.
Are they smart enough to differentiate between the speeder and the guy driving within the limit.
I’ve never seen roadworks cameras (the yellow ones) flash even if someone is zipping past at 70+ mph. Unless you’re talking about the “regular” overhead cameras with the variable speed limits?
robroy:
Was doing 50 in the M5 roadworks a couple of cars flew past me and the camera flashed.
Are they smart enough to differentiate between the speeder and the guy driving within the limit.
Yes. Two photos are taken half a second apart (hence the double flash). By reference to the “ladder” road markings in the camera’s field of view, the speed(s) of all vehicles in the frame can be calculated.
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ETS:
robroy:
Was doing 50 in the M5 roadworks a couple of cars flew past me and the camera flashed.
Are they smart enough to differentiate between the speeder and the guy driving within the limit.I’ve never seen roadworks cameras (the yellow ones) flash even if someone is zipping past at 70+ mph. Unless you’re talking about the “regular” overhead cameras with the variable speed limits?
Ok maybe you haven’t …but I did this morning. 
Cheers Roymundo btw.
When its dark or dull weather, it can look like a disco on the opposing carriageway of smart motorways when those cameras on the nearside post are flashing, do those twits all wear blinkers do they not look to see if a gantry has a camera before biffing past at 30mph over the posted limit , or even 20 mph over if in a wagon 
