3 wheeler:
Ye gods come back the seventies and early eighties please !
I say roll on the next 10 years when all those who were trucking in the 70’s and 80’s have retired and so have the practices they did along with them. Maybe then haulage can progress into the 21st Century instead of being some backward timewarp where drivers seem to want to get shafted, run around ragged and are happy running bent and buggering up their health for poverty money.
21st century lol,
I dread to think what things will be like in another 10 years, when you think where we are now what with dcpc qualified sat nav steering wheel attendants wedged under bridges or stuck down country lanes steering rev up and go trucks whilst wearing all the latest hi vis clothing but having no idea of how to secure a load in even the most basic forms of transport, never mind changing a bulb.
In another 10 years there will be no need to pay many of them at all, many of these useless skills will be redundant!
I think the OP has become confused about speed limiters and tachographs. They are two totally separate systems. But anyway - Does anyone really think TPTB will allow something as unreliable (i.e. jammable/blockable) as GPS to be used for speed limiters on lorries?
You think wrong
Yes, they are - atm
GPS limiters has been mentioned as a future possibility
I am merely pointing out, its getting closer. in fact I wouldn’t mind if everyone had them
No, I think correctly. Third and Fifth posts in this topic confirm it. You started off talking about speed limiters, then with no prompting other than “Give us a clue” began chuntering about tachographs (and quoting websites about them as examples).
Cockrell School’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics successfully discovered they could subtly coerce a 213-foot superyacht off its course, using a custom-made GPS device. youtube.com/watch?v=ctw9ECgJ8L0
DAFMAD:
Clue on What ?
If you mean the tachograph unit will be GPS controlled, meaning you will actually be able to do a real 56 where allowed, and not dependant on a poor calibration or tyre wear.
You can have the opposite too. I were follow different artics in the Birmingham area(M5-M6-M42) they were doing 92-93km/h, and I was follow a truck on the M5(S) he was travelling constantly 95km/h on flat surface xD
You can bring the truck for an MOT with 3mm tread(or just 1+mm) on the drive axle, if it’s do 89,9km/h that’s okay.Then put new tires on.xD Speed will go up to 94-95km/h
only prob with that is as your tyres wear,so does your speed reduce…its been rumored that its not impossible to just have your taho recaliberated to show 90 k when your actually doing 100k…or a tad more if your feeling lucky…all depends on who you know …105 works well…(so ive been told) gets you well passed the Tosco attendant brigade
Roymondo:
Nothing I can see there about the speed limiter being GPS controlled? The (optional) GPS functions appear to be for recording the location of the vehicle, not for limiting its speed.
No one said there was
But, it has been suggested that it will happen sooner or later
I am just pointing out its possible, not far off
I’d prefer sooner
I wonder if you’ll think the same way when you realise that the limiter will be able to vary to match the road you’re currently driving on…
Or the road you’re driving next to…When you’re driving along the motorway, and your gps system thinks you’re on the 30 MPH road that runs alongside it.
