Speed limiters

sevenhills

I drive a VW Crafter which I believe is limited to 62 mph. We have various large and smaller vehicles, none of them have warning signs on the rear of the vehicle, a few have a sign saying what speed the vehicle is limited to inside the cab.

I have driven one of our Newer VW Crafters and that seemed to be limited to 60 mph. Some organisations display a warning sign on the rear of the vehicle saying its top speed.

If you drive a limited vehicle, I believe you are not allowed in the outside lane of a motorway, are there any other restrictions?

Is there a legal duty to display the speed limit of a vehicle, in the cab or on its rear?

Car_54

No need for any warnings. It’s the driver’s responsibility to know the law.

user1977

sevenhills said:

If you drive a limited vehicle, I believe you are not allowed in the outside lane of a motorway, 

Do you have a citation for that? As far as I know it's simply the class of vehicle which determines whether you can use the outside lane - whether or not it has a speed limiter is irrelevant. Obviously you shouldn't be hogging a lane and holding up other traffic unnecessarily in any event. 

Flight3287462

Have you read the highway code recently?  Perhaps it will help guide you.

sevenhills

[Deleted User] said:

No need for any warnings. It’s the driver’s responsibility to know the law.

These signs on the rear of vehicles are also for the benefit of others. Good to know if the vehicle in front of you cannot go above a certain speed.

DB1904

sevenhills said:

[Deleted User] said:

No need for any warnings. It’s the driver’s responsibility to know the law.

These signs on the rear of vehicles are also for the benefit of others. Good to know if the vehicle in front of you cannot go above a certain speed.

Why? Surely any competent driver could deal with the speed it was travelling at. 

Jenni_D

The only reason to have such signs on the rear of such vehicles is to warn others.  

Ditzy_Mitzy

DB1904 said:

sevenhills said:

[Deleted User] said:

No need for any warnings. It’s the driver’s responsibility to know the law.

These signs on the rear of vehicles are also for the benefit of others. Good to know if the vehicle in front of you cannot go above a certain speed.

Why? Surely any competent driver could deal with the speed it was travelling at. 

I've always assumed those roundels existed as a form of tacit apology to car drivers, especially in the case of 60 limited vehicles attempting to overtake 56 limited lorries.  

Herzlos

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

I've always assumed those roundels existed as a form of tacit apology to car drivers, especially in the case of 60 limited vehicles attempting to overtake 56 limited lorries.  

I think it's also partially to avoid people being getting annoyed or harassing them since they can do nothing about it.

MEM62

DB1904 said:

sevenhills said:

[Deleted User] said:

No need for any warnings. It’s the driver’s responsibility to know the law.

These signs on the rear of vehicles are also for the benefit of others. Good to know if the vehicle in front of you cannot go above a certain speed.

Why? Surely any competent driver could deal with the speed it was travelling at. 

Of course they would, but it is not competent drivers that are the problem.  

jb66

I put warning sign on my work van so they know why I'm overtaking someone doing 69mph while im doing 70mph or so they know who to blame when halfway through an overtake someone on the inside decides to match my speed