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misterspivvy wrote: »

I don't necessarily agree, the regulations concerning speed limiters refer specifically to passenger carrying and goods vehicles used for hire or reward.

I can't see where you get the hire & reward element from. Regulation 36B of the Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986 lists the vehicles which are required to have a speed limiter fitted:

A speed limiter must be fitted to every goods vehicle which :-

1. • exceeds 12 tonnes maximum gross weight, and was first used on or after 01/01/1988, and which has a relevant speed exceeding 90 km/h (56 m.p.h.),
   • exceeds 7.5 tonnes maximum gross weight but does not exceed 12 tonnes, and first used on or after 01/08/1992 but before 01/01/2005, and which has a relevant speed exceeding 60 m.p.h. [URL="file:///C:/Hughes/trafc06.html#Anchor-The-49575"]A[/URL], or
   • exceeds 3.5 tonnes maximum gross weight but does not exceed 7.5 tonnes, and was first used on or after 01/10/2001 but before 01/01/2005, is diesel engined and has a relevant speed exceeding 90 km/h (56 m.p.h.) - (does not apply until 01/01/2006 for vehicles used for both national and international operations and from 01/01/2007 for vehicles used only for national operations), or
   • exceeds 3.5 tonnes maximum gross weight but does not exceed 12 tonnes, and first used on or after 01/01/2005, and which has a relevant speed exceeding 90 km/h (56 m.p.h.), (does not apply until 01/01/2008 for vehicles used only for national operations which have a maximum gross weight not exceeding 7.5 tonnes).

Just because the vehicle is not being used to carry goods, it does not cease to become a goods vehicle. In the same way, if I choose to carry a pack of bricks on a recovery vehicle, it is still a recovery vehicle, even though it is not being used as such.

Clear as mud, eh?