Quite so. The UK speed limit was (and I think still is) 60 mph for trucks. about 100kph although all trucks are now limited to 90kph. The extra 10kph (or maybe 15 or 20 so?) on a long m-way will make a difference.
Doing 65 was not legal, but might-get-away-with-it OK.
Can’t remember off the top my head but I think limiters were brought in the UK in early 1990’s??
We had a bs safe driving scam, I mean scheme here too.
Being awarded the childish badge and certificate did not mean the recipient was actually a safe driver, it mearly meant that they hadn’t been caught for any trafic infringements.
I thought the limiters came in the mid 80’s onwards?
For info
In February 1992 Council Directive 62/6/EEC was issued which required certain categories of vehicle to be fitted with Road Speed Limiters. This was followed by Council Directive 92/24/EEC which set out, in the annexe, the technical specifications for such limiters. These directives were then incorporated into UK legislation by amending Regulation 36 of the Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986 by inserting sections 36A, 36B and 36C. (SI 3048/1993).
In November 2002 the European Parliament and Council issued Directive 2002/85/EC which amended the original Directive 92/6/EEC to extend the range of vehicles to which the Directive applies. The Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986 have now been amended (SI 2102/2004) to incorporate these new requirements which came into effect as of the 1st January 2005.
I wouldn’t argue with that.
Although they would have options before that date.
And I seem to remember that they were required on UK trucks running in Europe earlier? So quite possible @Stuar was running with one in the 80’s.
You could try reading this. gives a bit more info
Mine was an E reg with no limiter, an ex Peter Gilder unit.
The longest night trunk we did at Bewick Transport back in the 70’s was about 435 miles Milnthorpe to Hockliffe and back our other trunks ran to Daventry and back.
I think one that Palletline does or still does it for the Birmingham to Scotland to Birmingham hub run where drivers stay at a hotel in Carlisle to swap drivers.
Tesco used to run to Middlewich RDC & back from Strood RDC, some 420 miles.
That’s a fair old run that.
I think Feltham to Killington Lake is pushing it
Carryfast always mixed his ambitions with his abilities.
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That is a run and a half. Especially going around the M25 and going past Birmingham.
You say used to do it? When was this and is it now stopped?
Night time m-way closures are the trend to day and travel times on night trunks must have worsened I guess?
I heard he’s joining the Australian police, they are short of A frame trailer configuration experts and engine braking engineers.
Will he like the big spiders, insects and snakes?
I heard on the grape vine that Geoffrey got the job.
Not using the wire, pulling out the fuse or chuck a magnet under the gearbox.
This was a night trunk run. Strood depot in Knight rd was run first by Lowfield, then Tibbettt & Britten and finally by Excel, it had the highest vehicle mileage of the entire Tesco fleet. It closed in 2005, Middlewich in 2023. Strood had a very large distribution area going almost as far as Bournemouth along the South Coast, into parts of South London,the whole of Kent and Sussex plus trunking to Fenny Lock, Kiln Farm, Welham Green,Brackmills & Weybridge, plus lending vehicles with drivers to both Snodland and Thurrock to cover busy days at those depots.
Thanks for the full reply.
Not so many night time closures back then. I wouldn’t fancy it in freezing fog though!
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