whats a speed limiter thank you please■■?
do trucks have these fitted and if so why is this why would you want to limit your speed from 80~85mph i just dont see the point, one day i want to become a true professional like you people on here and drive one of those trucks called silly blue oooops i mean big blue with a one cyl Lister diesel canal boat engine i remember it called rosie and jimboat = bardge, i can only hope and wish one day i will to become a cpt of a big boat no i mean cpt of one of those big shinny trucks, when i grow up that is 
Kenny1975:
Coffeeholic:
gm:
i’m paid by the mile - so its 55 for me = so in one hour i would be 3 miles short - working it out literally over a 9 hour day i would short 27 miles - X 5 = 135 miles per week -While the maths are good in the real world it is different. If you do a 9 hour driving day with the limiter set to 52 as opposed to 55 you will find at the end of the day it has cost you no more than a few miles and a few minutes. At most it will be it will be 5 or 6 miles and no where near 27 unless you have spent all those 9 hours driving on near empty motorways, such as on the toll motorways in France for instance, and even then it won’t be 27 miles. You don’t spend every minute of those 9 hours with your foot to the floor so there is no way it can be 27 miles.
Guess it depends what you do, when i did mostly locals and central Scotland the time difference was marginal a few minutes, picking the correct route, picking the correct lane in cities can easily make that time up.
But doing trunks did make a difference since starting off and 10mins from the motorway and then would be full speed all the way down, we did trunks with motors sitting at 55mph on the sat nav would get into Haydock at 4hrs 05mins 4hrs 10mins, then sit waiting to get past security, drive in find office, then get sent somewhere to dump trailer, then pick up another trailer sitting at 4hrs 20ish then on break.
When using the 52mph we are prob loosing about 10-12 miles going down so looking at getting into Haydock about 4hrs 15mins - 4hrs 20mins so with sitting in Q’s and yard movements going to be very close or over 4hrs 30mins. So when using a motor limited to 52mph you take your break at Charnock Richard on the way down and take second break at Johnstonbridge.
Get paid for second break so its no skin off my nose its extra pay for me prob an extra hour and a half when you round it up. Its about 400miles a night, so if similar saving to Xamtex’s company what £15-£18 a trunk but then got wages which is £18 extra to me, but i work for agency so higher than that.
Another problem is doing that trunk its a 2-3am start so thats when somtimes you get motorway closures for roadworks, then coming back up your coming back up in the morning rush hour and accident or more roadworks, could soon be running outta time and stoping, and they have to send someone else out to get you. Again more money for me won’t be loosing sleep over it, but don’t see the point business wise.
That’s if you’re on a job which pays you for the extra time.But when it’s job and finish Scottish changeovers from London and the Scottish never were much good at getting past Killington Lake southbound from their end 
then it was a different story and even at 90 kmh let alone 85 it was a close thing on hours compared to running at 60 mph and the time difference between running at 60 mph and 90/85 kmh over most of the distance of a 400 mile + run added around an hour to the job.
the firm i work for put the motors down to 52 from 56 2 years ago.the reason why is that we are saving 100grand a year on fuel costs.only thing is that if hes saving that why has he not passed the saving on to us in the last couple of years as we have not had a pay rise at all in 5 years ta all.all we get that we are not making enough to have one.even though we got a few new contracts and have bought 30 extenders plus a load or curtains aswell to replace older ones.ok they are second hand as well as more second hand units all 55 plates nothing newer.plus 2 other firms aswell.
so they say they are saving money turning the speed down to save cash but are u seeing anything in ur pay packed if u have not had a pay rise for a few years where is the money they have saved gone to then
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum ■■■■ doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it lit 
sandgrounder:
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum [zb] doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it lit
I’m a bit concerned that you say this. What are you doing if “many a time ive nearly ran up the arse of some ? doing 50 mph on a motorway”
You choose the speed you drive up to either a limited or maximum possible, you see the slower moving vehicle ahead, mirror, signal then manoeuvre.
Why have you nearly run up their arse? We’re you not concentrating? I see a lot of this with all sorts of vehicles trying to “punish” the slower driver. I am currently driving around at 43mph max. Remember that if you drive into the back of me, it will probably be you who comes off worse, not to mention legally liable for the resulting crash, costs and heartache.
43mph!!??hope that is a crane or something!! not due to lack of concentrating just when everyone is trying to pull out to overtake some slow coach, you are following normal speed traffic when suddenly there is a 50mph muppet plodding along. yeah i probably would come off worse thats why i said its an obstruction
sandgrounder:
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum [zb] doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it lit
So taking that to its logical conclusion, if you’re in your car driving along a d/c at 70mph and the car in front is travelling at 64mph if you run into the back of him then he’s the ■■■■ that caused it?
Please feel free to defend.
This practice should be ilegall, the are a nusance and dangerous, you see on mways the speed diffence with cars is to great
somerset bus driver:
sandgrounder:
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum [zb] doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it litI’m a bit concerned that you say this. What are you doing if “many a time ive nearly ran up the arse of some ? doing 50 mph on a motorway”
You choose the speed you drive up to either a limited or maximum possible, you see the slower moving vehicle ahead, mirror, signal then manoeuvre.
Why have you nearly run up their arse? We’re you not concentrating? I see a lot of this with all sorts of vehicles trying to “punish” the slower driver. I am currently driving around at 43mph max. Remember that if you drive into the back of me, it will probably be you who comes off worse, not to mention legally liable for the resulting crash, costs and heartache.
the maoster:
sandgrounder:
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum [zb] doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it litSo taking that to its logical conclusion, if you’re in your car driving along a d/c at 70mph and the car in front is travelling at 64mph if you run into the back of him then he’s the [zb] that caused it?
Please feel free to defend.
You two guys sum up my thoughts on his post perfectly. I mean, just WTF?! Some crazy people about these days… 
the maoster:
sandgrounder:
i personally believe that limiters set at around the 50-52 mph is a disgrace. the measly amount of money saved by these greedy health and safety obbessed companies is out wayed by the journey time and wage bill losted due the rididculus limit set.i also believe these wagons doing that speed causes obstructions, many a time i ve nearly ran up the arse of sum [zb] doing 50 mph on the motorway.speed limit for trucks is 60mph according to the law so we should be limited to that, not the ridiculus 85-90kph limit set by europe.keep it litSo taking that to its logical conclusion, if you’re in your car driving along a d/c at 70mph and the car in front is travelling at 64mph if you run into the back of him then he’s the [zb] that caused it?
Please feel free to defend.
Depends if you’re talking about doing 150 mph + on the A1 between Piacenza and Bologna or 70 mph between Huntingdon and Grantham.
It is a pain, but it does save fuel.
In flying circles they called it the ‘Speed Squared’ rule. Do the maths and over a week / month / year the fuel savings are large indeed.
We had the limiters reduced at Debenhams last year. Exeter to Brackmills, Northampton, driving through the rush hour was made far harder when the fleet was reduced to 52. Any traffic problems and you’d be screwed for getting the run in, fuelling up and getting on the bay in your 4hrs 30.
Paul.
prichardson:
It is a pain, but it does save fuel.In flying circles they called it the ‘Speed Squared’ rule. Do the maths and over a week / month / year the fuel savings are large indeed.
But they have’nt fitted planes with speed limiters set at 85 kmh and they don’t pay around £5 per gallon for their fuel.So taken to it’s logical conclusion it would save even more fuel to limit every thing on the road to the speed of a bicycle or to fit wings on all vehicles and call them a plane. 
a dutch trick…fit smaller/lower profile tyres on tractor…have tacho/limiter set to 89, refit larger tyres…tacho reads legal, you go much faster.
THIRTEEN:
a dutch trick…fit smaller/lower profile tyres on tractor…have tacho/limiter set to 89, refit larger tyres…tacho reads legal, you go much faster.
now who could i suggest that to.
jessicas dad:
THIRTEEN:
a dutch trick…fit smaller/lower profile tyres on tractor…have tacho/limiter set to 89, refit larger tyres…tacho reads legal, you go much faster.
now who could i suggest that to.
Which raises the question what’s the lowest and highest profile truck tyres which are possible to fit on the drive axle. 
Enough to turn kmh into MPH with any luck I’d bet even the Dutch never thought of that.