i wonder how many accidents you will directly or indirectly cause by having irate drivers overtaking you by all means possible as you will be unreasonably holding them back.rightly or wrongly just now then theres masses of accidents caused by trucks driving to the letter of the law regarding speed,how bad will it be when your driving 10mph below the speed limit.if i was a traffic plod then id be finding whatever charge i could to get drivers with that mindset off the road.all they are is a frustrating rolling roadblock.
You said it spot on there “”“” limit “”"
Yes LIMIT not TARGET FFS
i wonder how many accidents you will directly or indirectly cause by having irate drivers overtaking you by all means possible as you will be unreasonably holding them back.rightly or wrongly just now then theres masses of accidents caused by trucks driving to the letter of the law regarding speed,how bad will it be when your driving 10mph below the speed limit.if i was a traffic plod then id be finding whatever charge i could to get drivers with that mindset off the road.all they are is a frustrating rolling roadblock.
You said it spot on there “”“” limit “”"
Yes LIMIT not TARGET FFS
Whether it is a limit or a target is not the point the point being that if conditions allow then you should be driving to the speed limit and if you want to disprove this point next time a member of your family is taking their driving test tell them to drive at 10mph below the limit for the duration of their test, odds are they won’t be best pleased with you when they fail. There is such a thing as speed minus for which you can fail your test
Indeed,there are more than enough opportunities through the day to lose time and mess your day up than fannying around at 40 when it’s perfectly safe to do 50.
i wonder how many accidents you will directly or indirectly cause by having irate drivers overtaking you by all means possible as you will be unreasonably holding them back.rightly or wrongly just now then theres masses of accidents caused by trucks driving to the letter of the law regarding speed,how bad will it be when your driving 10mph below the speed limit.if i was a traffic plod then id be finding whatever charge i could to get drivers with that mindset off the road.all they are is a frustrating rolling roadblock.
Don’t blame the driver. Our place have a zero tolerance policy on speeding, we’re tracked and monitored to the nth degree and the gaffer’s gofer (aka driver trainer but known to us as “thrush” ) is forever giving us bits of useless paper to sign to acknowledge our “sins”.
In principle I sympathise with your sentiments, but unfortunately those in offices who view this industry through a computer screen rather than a windscreen call the shots; and my job pays too well to kick it into touch for the sake of getting there a minute earlier, thank you.
Conor:
If you’re a lorry stuck behind them you have no right to complain because the limit for you is 40 as well. If you’re a car driver, learn to overtake. By boot it when a DC comes up you mean “accelerates to the legal 50MPH?” Nothing wrong with that.
No doubt you’ll be one of those who on the day the law changes will be on the limiter on single carriageways. [zb] like you just can’t help yourself.
Yes you are right no one has a right to complain because the person at the front of the queue is the law enforcer. He / she has the powers and everyone else must comply with them because they are not breaking the law.
You are also right about the duel carriageway. Speeding up to a legal limit is a good thing because it could prevent as many people overtaking which means its great for everyone and makes the enforcer just feel really good about themself.
Of course there is always another option which works well too: just ■■■■ off into the nearest layby if causing a nuisance to other road users and let everyone get on with their day or get a job with the Police if you want to play enforcer…
mazzer:
Whether it is a limit or a target is not the point the point being that if conditions allow then you should be driving to the speed limit and if you want to disprove this point next time a member of your family is taking their driving test tell them to drive at 10mph below the limit for the duration of their test, odds are they won’t be best pleased with you when they fail. There is such a thing as speed minus for which you can fail your test
Ok s I’ll do as you say and ■■■■ more people off by reaching a D/C and floor it to prob 1 mph faster than the guy behind for the half mile then ■■■■ him off again when then D/C ends and drop back to 50 yeah like that’s gonna keep em happy
From the viewpoint of one who has to stick to speed limits, or face company disciplinary; it really isn’t fun and I can’t wait till April when this long-overdue easing of limits comes in. I spend more time than most on single-carriageway roads and I’m sick of having no option other than to trundle along below the limit and build queues up; but as I said above the job pays well and I’m damned if I’m risking losing that for the sake of a few impatient idiots.
What really bugs me is the insistence that sticking exactly to the limit is somehow safer; in practice you spend far too much time watching your speedo, especially on hilly routes.
Reading some of the comments on here, though, you’d think that the bloke who’s driving according to the law (even if said law is an out-dated ■■■) is the criminal, and that those who blatantly ignore it are the ones in the right.
It’s worth noting that if more drivers (or more to the point, their employers) had enforced speed limits, the law may well have been changed years ago.
Sidevalve:
It’s worth noting that if more drivers (or more to the point, their employers) had enforced speed limits, the law may well have been changed years ago.
I very much believe this ^^^ to be the case. Back in the bad old days when almost nobody adhered to the 40 limit (and interestingly it was never enforced by the police) the limit would never have changed. Now however, with the advent of speed cameras and onboard tracking monitored by teenage graduates out to make a name we find a high percentage watching their speedometers like hawks, we now have the situation where the motoring public are being genuinely inconvenienced by lorries sticking to s/c limits. This, and only this has resulted in the change imo.
If you go around your driving test 10 mph below the limit it’s a fail so there for the good old 40 brigade would be be classed as dangerous driving I would have thought.
mazzer:
Whether it is a limit or a target is not the point the point being that if conditions allow then you should be driving to the speed limit and if you want to disprove this point next time a member of your family is taking their driving test tell them to drive at 10mph below the limit for the duration of their test, odds are they won’t be best pleased with you when they fail. There is such a thing as speed minus for which you can fail your test
Ok s I’ll do as you say and ■■■■ more people off by reaching a D/C and floor it to prob 1 mph faster than the guy behind for the half mile then ■■■■ him off again when then D/C ends and drop back to 50 yeah like that’s gonna keep em happy
Fail to see what your answer has to do with what I said, never made any mention about breaking limits just said that if conditions allow then you should drive to them and if you are one of the drivers that drive at 40 mph but then decide to break the 50mph rule on a DC then bully for you says more about you than anyone else.
taffytrucker:
If you go around your driving test 10 mph below the limit it’s a fail so there for the good old 40 brigade would be be classed as dangerous driving I would have thought.
Cobblers. Go over the speed limit on test and that’s a definite fail as is driving significantly under it; but FYI the " good old 40 brigade" are only doing it because they have to and because, like it or not, until April that is the law.
taffytrucker:
If you go around your driving test 10 mph below the limit it’s a fail so there for the good old 40 brigade would be be classed as dangerous driving I would have thought.
Cobblers. Go over the speed limit on test and that’s a definite fail as is driving significantly under it; but FYI the " good old 40 brigade" are only doing it because they have to and because, like it or not, until April that is the law.
You are wasting your time mate, even I’ve gave up on this thread, too many hard of thinking and cerebrally challenged types on it
Sorry if that’s offensive to some but we just keep on covering the same ground and answering the same old ill thought out bloody stupid comments …mostly containing the word ‘brigade’
Should speed limits be reduced to 40mph on rural roads?
Headline from Eastern Daily Press, Norfolk County Council want to reduce speed limits on what they define as rural roads.
Bearing in mind that there are very few dual carriageways in the county, of the ten major routes into Norfolk only two are dualled, the latest one A11 last Christmas, that covers most other roads.
Who will be next to scupper plans for speeding up freight movements?
taffytrucker:
If you go around your driving test 10 mph below the limit it’s a fail so there for the good old 40 brigade would be be classed as dangerous driving I would have thought.
Cobblers. Go over the speed limit on test and that’s a definite fail as is driving significantly under it; but FYI the " good old 40 brigade" are only doing it because they have to and because, like it or not, until April that is the law.
You will rack up speed minus for going to slow or you did at least when did my test
FFS! Drive to the conditions within the set speed limits and leave enough room for the heroes and business creators to get back in when it goes pear shaped and everything will be fine!
YOU are the captain of YOUR ship - it’s up to you to get home in one piece.
I said a couple of weeks ago I was done with this thread because of all the ‘Speed target’ muppets on it, but on Fri I noticed it’s started already.
In Cornwall on the A30 (think it was ) being Fri I was sat about 46/47 (yeh I know above limit but read my previous posts on this) looked in the mirror DAF tipper right up my jacksey sat on white line. After a couple of miles he pulls out gets along side me showing 5 fingers, now unless this is a new abusive gesture I don’t know about, I assume that he was telling me I should be sat at 50 . blissfully unaware he was a week or so early anyway, and ignoring that he passed me in a particular dangerous part of the road. Anway off he pops…on his limiter…by the look of it. These are the type of ■■■■ s that are going to ■■■■ the whole thing up
And judging by some comments on this thread, he may even be on here .
) is forever giving us bits of useless paper to sign to acknowledge our “sins”.
