EastAnglianTrucker:
Dunno then?:
I’ll deliberately slow down to 30-35mph, just to wind you up!■■■■■■!
Hey ho… another “professional”… If you can’t get past a truck that has deliberately slowed down to let you past, I think it’s you who is the ■■■■■■ Mr Dunno then? Either that or maybe you need to get yer mum to start buying you the Beano again… Soon be back to school for you!
Confirmed!
Happy Keith:
bubsy06:
‘… people like me …’That doesn’t seem the case given this thread, bubbers
But seriously:
bubsy06:
‘…people like me want to finish early on a friday and enjoy there time off, work to live not live to work…’So why not either:
Consult your MP with an ambition to address the law by arguing that your way is best.
…or
Embrace the diversity that democratically elected politicians tell us is good for the nation?
They’re realistic alternatives to whingeing & splitting the debate into bitterly entrenched schisms of opposition
Your posts always make me laugh. Its like your on a different planet Happy Keith 
Foot down or move over, thats all it needs. no need to campaign and complain.
So much better at night, a number of times 0230- 0300ish on the A36 south from Bath I’ve caught up with Tesco and Sainsburys whilst I’m pootling along at 45 and by staying back a couple of truck lengths and not tailgating, they pull into a layby to let me pass then rejoin immediately.
We all win, I don’t get delayed much and they can toodle on at their leisure 
A quick double toot and a wave says a BIG thankyou.
And I’ve also ducked into a layby when a faster truck gets in the mirrors, it’s the decent thing to do, innit?
(Except tippers- w ■■■■■■ s 
)
ncooper:
So ?
So, your licence can be suspended or revoked for what they see as persistent speeding.
Regards,
Nick
They need proof what road your on. Taco’s don’t show your the route you have taken.
Gates:
‘… [VOSA] need proof what road your on. Taco’s don’t show your the route you have taken…’
You mean that they won’t ask to see a run sheet?
Crikey, they must be dim, eh 
Muckaway:
paul@midway:
So a teco driver doing 25 mph and being a pain in the ■■■ ended up being " I do 30 mph , I do 35 mph I do 38 mph , I never speed I blah blah blah Look how professional I,am …
Tesco do this a lot on the 446 and [zb] up the A38 at busy periods by doing 40mph on it , and we all know how many car drivers are prepared to let you out on a busy dual…
They are a [zb] nuisance , end of story.
They will always get a bip of the horn and a shaking head and hand gesture that says WHY WHY WHY…Keep up with traffic flow is what it’s called , not hindering it.
All very well until Vosa turn up and a tacho analysis shows 80kmh nowhere near a dual carriageway…
Where has 80 kmh been plucked from ? There has been a lot of speeds been plucked from no-where in this thread to back up errr nothing
The only speeds the thread really concerned was tesco doing 25 mph on a single and another one I put in of tesco doing 40 mph on a dual.
This 80 kmh you have introduced has nothing to do with any of that.
paul@midway:
, and we all know how many car drivers are prepared to let you out on a busy dual…
i always find indicating normally scares a few car drivers into backing off so i can pull out
Hah !!! Try the A38 when it’s busy , no chance…Your orange flashy thing means nothing.
Maybe the indicator doesn’t but the two spinny orange ones on the top always mean business.
Gates:
ncooper:
So ?
So, your licence can be suspended or revoked for what they see as persistent speeding.
Regards,
NickThey need proof what road your on. Taco’s don’t show your the route you have taken.
Not, for example, if you are in darkest Lincolnshire, where there are large areas with no dual carriageways
Locally based drivers are rarely seen to be over 40 mph, whether leaving or returning.
A different matter altogether once they are out of the county.
Similarly,Sainsbury’s trucks crawl from the A1 to Sherburn and away from it.
Unless your base is right on the edge of a motorway (like mine is 
) it’s not rocket science to work out the speed limit in the first and last parts of the journey.
To me,it’s simple common sense to be somewhere near the speed limit for the road you are on.
I also see little to be gained by getting upset at what other drivers do, better to concentrate on getting what I am doing right, I think.
As for VOSA, there is nothing at all to be gained by getting them interested in you, a low profile is best.
If they see a set of cards showing virtually no 40mph speeds, they may well develop an unhealthy interest and as mentioned above, start asking for details of trips done.
Regards,
Nick.
I think quite a few people are forgetting that it is hardly likely to be the drivers own personal choice to be dawdling along with a massive queue behind them.
Thing is with companies like Tesco, the vast majority of rules and procedures are decided by spotty jumped up graduates at head office who are out of touch with life on the front line (or in this case probably never done so much as been inside the cab of a HGV). Tesco will also be very image conscious - a lot of people would be more than happy to write a letter to the papers saying that they saw a Tesco wagon “hurtling along over the limit”. In all likelyhood the cab will be kitted out with every spying device going and the driver left without any choice on the matter. You have to sympathise with them really.
I get far more enraged with tractor drivers being ignorant on SC’s and not pulling into laybys to let traffic pass.
Really, what is the big deal with doing the speed limit? I set the cruise control to 66kph and thats where it stays everyone else can either overtake or ■■■■■■■ wait.
Doing the speed limit isn’t the issue The issue is Tesco drivers sitting at 25 mph on a single for miles.
Seems the look at me I do 40 mph and I do 35 mph and I do… Have hijacked the thread , as is what normally happens because they want everyone to know about it, just like some of the blokes I work with. They will tell anyone who will listen , doing is another matter mind 
bubsy06:
tyler4164:
I was following one on a sc last week who was going 40 but sometimes went down to 30. Didnt bother me as the limit is a max guideline not a speed you must drive at. At the end of the day we are all meant to be professional drivers yet most of you speed. I tend to stick to the speed limits as my job doesnt require me to speed & if i do get held up then so be it. I just sit back & enjoy the ride & couldnt care less if people behind me are in a rush.Why? too [zb] selfish? why not pull into a layby and let people get on with there lives? not everyone wants to spend 99% of their life in work. i am on salary so the less hours i work the more i earn, better life for me as I can spend more time doing what I want than hitting selfish drivers. If your paid by the hour pull into a layby for 20 mins and let the 5 miles of traffic pass you by that will be an extra £2.48 in your pay packet at the end of the week
plus it should be made legal for our company to charge your company for the extra fuel and wages it costs when we end up having to crawl up hills at 5-10mph because we have no momentum from you muppets who feel the need do bumble up them at 20-30mph. call yourself a proffesional when you dont give a [zb] about your fellow drivers
A professional driver should be happy to drive at the legal speed limit. I too am salary paid so its not about more money. I hate sitting at 40mph on a s/c but have no choice, neither do i have to pull over to allow drivers to break the law. & how am i supposed to know if a curtain sider is loaded when i cant see the load
My company has MASTERNAUT TELEMATICS SYSTEMS fitted in all our vehicles & are watching our speeds on certain roads. This equipment stores data for a number of weeks so my boss can look a week later & tell i was doing 55 on a s/c. For any of you that dont like it…tough because thats the way it is…i speed i lose my job & i have a family to feed too. If that makes me a ■■■■ or a selfish driver then so be it. look after number one thats what i say.
If all you drivers who wanna break the law come up behing me you better learn to overtake if you dont like it if not deal with it
Just to add my 2 bobs worth-
I was on a training course last week to use the Falcon speed gun and we were given our forces “guidelines”. Up to 39 in a 30 or 49 in a 40 then its a bollocking.g for the driver. 39-42 or 49-52 then its up to the officers discretion whether or not to issue a fixed penalty. Anything over those figures,then its a ticket.
As for the mobile cameras,I haven’t a clue but I don’t think they are as tolerant.
That’s where my 3 points came from… 
Saaamon:
‘… I set the cruise control to 66kph and thats where it stays everyone else can either overtake or [zb] wait…’
What’s with the ‘…66kph…’ lark? Is it a wind-up or perhaps the covert signature of an EU, pro-federalist?
I choose to remain vague as to whether ‘…66kph…’ is an under-speed, an over-speed or is about right-speed for Imperial UK. I do that because the UK uses MPH.
Why not make life easier by setting the vehicle computer to run on MPH when running on UK roads?
If running on KPH is because we’re being quietly bullied by Brussels & President van Rumpy (where are his leadership credentials?) - then why not stand up to them?
Why should the UK be pushed, pulled or otherwise blackmailed into fixing what isn’t broken? How many of us fear being called a bigot simply for having a soft-spot for wishing to remain a bit English, Welsh, Scots, N. Irish, British, etc, rather than the grey and meaningless notion of solely being an EU Citizen where one-size-fits-all?
The reality is that one size doesn’t fit all for various reasons: Consider why the Euro is failing in front of many clueless (but well paid) grey suits and similarly ask why should we fail the MPH in favour of KPH in the UK?
Isn’t the use of kph disrespectful to the nation’s heritage? Why smuggle it in - which is seemingly the sole task of too many failed domestic politicians or undemocratically placed & overpaid, ex-Civil Servants on their Brussels Gravy Train retirement jobs?
I run in MPH because I’m living here and am not prepared to use foreign units of measure - which, I suggest, add nothing of any worthwhile value to daily life in Britain. Constant mathematical juggling with speed conversion values don’t make my days run any better - or safer regardless if it’s above, below or the same as the legal limit of velocity or not
and am not prepared to use foreign units of measure
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No idea how old you are Keith but you use foreign units of measure all the day… metric money.
Perhaps you are not old enough to remember pounds shillings and pence and as such accept the current coinage as “British”, but it’s not.
Anyway, get used to increasing units of measurement changes because eventually they will all be standardised to the Euro norm.
It doesn’t matter if your limited to 500mph, if you have vehicles behind you the right thing to do is help them past or pull over where available.
Note there’s a trend where folk defending the argument of sticking religiously to limits are the ones who continually use the phrase ‘‘why should i’’ a lot !!
As already stated, the speed limit your reading isnt the speed you are going, speedo’s under read PLUS you have a bit of leeway with the powers that be. This doesnt mean you should speed, just means you don’t have to sit their clock watching it
ajt:
It doesn’t matter if your limited to 500mph, if you have vehicles behind you the right thing to do is help them past or pull over where available.Note there’s a trend where folk defending the argument of sticking religiously to limits are the ones who continually use the phrase ‘‘why should i’’ a lot !!
As already stated, the speed limit your reading isnt the speed you are going, speedo’s under read PLUS you have a bit of leeway with the powers that be. This doesnt mean you should speed, just means you don’t have to sit their clock watching it
There’s no law saying we have to pull over’; I don’t care if my tacho maybe out it says 40 thats what I’ll be judged on if I’m involved in an accident. If your boss pushes you you’re a cretin for working for them, I’ve turned down people who’ve approached me to drive for them because I know despite the newish motor I’ll be expected to charge about like an idiot.
del949:
‘…No idea how old you are Keith but you use foreign units of measure all the day… Perhaps you are not old enough to remember pounds shillings and pence and as such accept the current coinage as “British”, but it’s not … get used to increasing units of measurement changes because eventually they will all be standardised to the Euro norm…’
Cleverly worked to subordinate those of us that have been undemocratically lied to by Europhiles from Edward Heath onward.
I worked on 15 February 1971 to help my milkman do the milk delivery ‘leg-work’: He was three hours behind his daily schedule & was desperate for help as I sat on the front wall - so that he could concentrate on doing the finances. He was well happy (?) to explain this ‘new money’ to the local ol’ ducks and I had a pocket-money job, (incl’ driving the float) for the next three years: Incidentally, cheers, Graham!
I dare say that society was as Luddite then as I am today, (■■■■ them for being so obstructive too?) - but perhaps appreciate that I’m not as blithely able to limply endorse my countrymen or Queen Elizabeth and her heirs being subordinated to the undemocratically ‘elected’, un-necessary and largely unwanted President van Rumpy of Belgium, . Maybe you can respond by persuading me how effective he really is?
Incidentally, you could include info-ing us where he professionally ‘came from’? And name his palace/castle/semi-detached place - or country of residence whilst whistling the EU anthem (which you paid to have written) with pride.
When were we consulted about having that damp rag for leader - did I miss something, or am I alone in believing that the Blair/Brown/Camer/Clegg, etc signatures that endorse the Lisbon Treaty as also being deviously treacherous?
The PC coercion and the the “we shall comply” obedience from prole’s of proto-federalists within the UK Government [sic] sucking up to the Euro mainstream is perhaps proof that covert mind control is alive and kicking.
Cheers, but not really.