MADBAZ:
Over 90 kmh for more than 30 seconds= <<overspeed 30>>
over 90 kmh for more than 60 seconds= <<overspeed 60>> and so on.
Iirc your last five overspeeds are recorded on your card as well as the fastest ever, needs looking up though for clarification.
Best I’ve ever got is to 120 (seconds) down Windy Hill with a full load of boilers.
You will come a cropper one day when the traffic is backed up at the bottom and you cant stop and you kill some innocent sod.
whats to say he didnt do it at 3am? why is it everyone on here jumps to conclusions? what if he was doing 58mph it would register as an overspeed for the whole way down!
Slackbladder:
Mine kicks in at 57mph for some reason. I watch it like a hawk going downhill and it still catches me out as it doesn’t happen every time.
Mine kicks in around that speed as well, and again it catches me out as well, got pulled in by the TM a few times for my over speeds, he says it’s no big deal just try and cut them out.
I believe it’s 2kmh above the set limited speed for a continuous 30 seconds = an overspeed warning on the display.
Not sure about them being recorded on the card and couldn’t give a ■■■■ if they were, last time I checked, the speed limit was 60mph in the UK, so they can’t do bugger all unless you exceed that or the limiter is faulty and not reported.
war1974:
‘…so if an overspeed kicks in at 57-58-59 and your on the m1 where the limit is 60? what could vosa do then your still within the law…’
As I understand it, the law is in kmph - so any agent of the EU is able to apply that law, ie EU law and not that which we otherwise interpret in Mickey Mouse [sic] Imperial units.
MADBAZ:
Over 90 kmh for more than 30 seconds= <<overspeed 30>>
over 90 kmh for more than 60 seconds= <<overspeed 60>> and so on.
Iirc your last five overspeeds are recorded on your card as well as the fastest ever, needs looking up though for clarification.
Best I’ve ever got is to 120 (seconds) down Windy Hill with a full load of boilers.
You will come a cropper one day when the traffic is backed up at the bottom and you cant stop and you kill some innocent sod.
Last time I looked at the highway code the speed limit on a motorway was 60mph (96.6 kph) for my vehicle which I won’t exceed, My trucks safety features include 2 optical sensors (with a rang of up to 14 miles at sea level), which are electro-mechanically linked to the brakes via an organic ECU, the chances of not being able to stop because I didn’t see traffic at the bottom of Windy Hill are very slim. I for one do not reduce the range of the optical sensor by sitting 10 ft off the truck in front.
Cruise Control:
£60.50 Fine and a driver conduct hearing if vosa download your digi card and see any overspeeds over 3 seconds. Unless you can prove you did all you could to stop it happening or you can justify it. That’s the truth, a driver at an RDC said so!
I know that driver, he told me that if your landing legs aren’t fully wound up VOSA can give you a £30 fine for every turn of the handle, this was just after he’d had two bays either side of him chalked off by the police when he ran out of time on a bay, and the manager of RDC he was at was sacked. THIS IS TRUE COS HE TOLD ME.
what a load of ■■■■■■■■, if your on a motorway the limit is 60 so regardless of what your tacho is saying you are not breaking any laws doing 60, i would let it go down windy hill at 62mph all day everyday, the tacho can show as many overspeeds as it wants, no laws are being broken
Don’t think VOSA worry too much about 44 tonne pushing you downhill for a minute or two, all the look for is periods of 60mph plus for hours - then they ask how long you pulled for Norfolk line!
Vosa can not do you or the police, not unless there is PROOF of you doing over 60 on a motorway. You could be on a private race track for all they know.
i had to go see vosa for a tapped interview and i can assure you they are not impressed with anything over 100k my highest was 117k and the bell end almost killed me when i tried to say it was safer letting the wieght push me down hill then keep breaking. im now waiting to see if im to be prosecuted which he told me i probebly will for the speeding and likely a warning for unacounted 2km.
war1974:
so if an overspeed kicks in at 57-58-59 and your on the m1 where the limit is 60? what could vosa do then your still within the law
This came up a while ago and I emailed visa about it and posted the reply. Cba to look for post, but it went along the lines of perfectly legal to over speed up to 60 mph and that vosa use the over speed to check for tampered limiters. It is not an infringement to over speed up to 60 mph (on motorway) if your weight makes you go that fast down a hill.
Volvo dealers obviously check because when i worked for a previous employer they told the boss that one of the drivers had recorded 88 going down hill.
