Stopped for speeding - help please

Retrogamer

Strider590 wrote: »

That's not how it'd go down......

They'd confiscate the video under PACE, as possible evidence of an offence.

If i was really going quickly around the roundabout i have no doubt that's what would have happened.
But i wasn't and that's how it went down.

arcon5

bugslet wrote: »

Whilst I get your point Enfieldien, it really depends on how much time you spend on the road. As apparently he drives for a living, that could be a lot of time.

When I drove for a living, I did 120 - 125,000 a year, whilst a friend of mine does 4000 a year pootling to the shops and for lunch.

I'm not excusing or commenting, just making an observation.

Oh please! None of us are so gullible as to believe that!

Paradigm

arcon5 wrote: »

Oh please! None of us are so gullible as to believe that!

Why? 120000 a year is easily done.

force_ten

arcon5 wrote: »

Oh please! None of us are so gullible as to believe that!

its only 400 miles a day 6 days a week for 52 weeks of the year add a couple of days out with the missus on you very rare day off and you can do that milage easy :rotfl:

dacouch

force_ten wrote: »

its only 400 miles a day 6 days a week for 52 weeks of the year add a couple of days out with the missus on you very rare day off and you can do that milage easy :rotfl:

You'd earn all of about £30 in vouchers from Shell drivers club for that sort of mileage...

rudekid48

dacouch wrote: »

You'd earn all of about £30 in vouchers from Shell drivers club for that sort of mileage...

Or enough nectar points for the pile cream you'd need after that much sitting...

Dr._Shoe

Just a quick question: Did the copper take your son's details?


My OH had a run in with a coper once when he was a trucker. The story went something like this:

A norml patrol car not a traffic car pulls him over. A copper gets out of the passenger seat and as he approached hubby's truck he looked like he was about 14.
"I would like to see your tachograph please?" he squeaked.
"Be my guest!" said hubby motioning to the passenger seat with the ide that he should jump up and then hubby would pass them across. Instead copper junior started to try to open the fuse cabinet. Bemused, Hubby watched him a little and then asked him why he was trying to open the fuse cabinet.
"So where is the tacho in this particular vehicle?" squeaked junior.
"Where it always is, under the speedo." replied OH.
As he came back around the front of the lorry, hubby removed the little key. After a lot of fiddling and trying to open it, hubby asked him why he didn't have a key.
"Well," said Junior, "I'll let you off this once but I'm going to be keeping my eye on you!"
"Let me off what?" Replied hubby, "can I just take your number so that if you do decide to harrass me I can report it?".

Junior looked at least 8" smaller when he got back into the police car.

bugslet

force_ten wrote: »

its only 400 miles a day 6 days a week for 52 weeks of the year add a couple of days out with the missus on you very rare day off and you can do that milage easy :rotfl:

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Force -ten, you know too much about my life

The joys of van driving, based in Manchester, trip down to Southampton or London or Glasgow, few drops, would clock up 400 - 500 miles Mon- Fri, 2250 ish miles a week, fifty weeks a year. occasional 6 day week + own mileage. Oh and I lived 30 miles from where I worked, so there goes 60 miles just getting into work and back home. Quite easy actually when it's all you do and the bulk of your mileage is done on the motorway.

CKhalvashi

arcon5 wrote: »

Oh please! None of us are so gullible as to believe that!

My highest year was 106000 miles, most of which was at 90mph on E-routes on the continent. I was based in Switzerland 2 days a week, before most weeks heading into Eastern Europe, as I was dealing with ambitious company expansion plans. I'll dig out the servicing invoices later if you don't believe, as 6 of the 9 services were done either in Geneva or Bucharest.

Not many drive that sort of mileage but knowing what Bugs did for a living, it's very believable.

BeenThroughItAll

Paradigm wrote: »

Why? 120000 a year is easily done.

Yep. When I first moved to the north east in 2003, I did 97K miles in my company car that year, plus 20Kish in my own car. Near as dammit 120K.


It's easy if you have a lot of ground to cover. Used to regularly clock up 500-600 miles a day.