Van Drivers Beware!

anewman

vaio wrote: »

All the HGV changes are always publicised in the truckers newspapers people read whilst they are shovelling bacon & egg down their necks

And driving down the motorway at 60mph :rotfl:

banger9365

I'm a professional driver and you do not now the speed limit for your vehicle,what else do you not
poeple like you scare me for your own safety mite find you in a ditch some where

alun4

I have two vehicles - almost identical. A mercedes vito dualiner (6 seats) and a mercedes viano (6 seats). Any thoughts !! ????

Conor_3

zeon999 wrote: »

Yeah I learnt this already as somebody else had already pointed out to me that it has been around for years, they also manged to do it without being a total !!! and I had also replyed to his comment about the fact it had been round for ages.

Why are you so rude about this matter?

Because I'm sick of being part of a group berated by another group who don't even know the basics.

zeon999 wrote: »

Nobody expects all car drivers to know every road law their is and I dont get why you have such an attitude with everybody.

Speed limits are hardly a rarely used minor part of the law, are they?

Conor_3

anewman wrote: »

And driving down the motorway at 60mph :rotfl:

And how do we drive down the motorway at 60MPH when every HGV manufactured since 1994 has been fitted with a speed limiter restricting it to 90KPH/56MPH?

Perhaps you should get your speedo checked. It's obviously very innacurate.

Conor_3

vaio wrote: »

All the HGV changes are always publicised in the truckers newspapers people read whilst they are shovelling bacon & egg down their necks

Who says we all read the trucking newspapers?

anewman

Conor wrote: »

And how do we drive down the motorway at 60MPH when every HGV manufactured since 1994 has been fitted with a speed limiter restricting it to 90KPH/56MPH?

Perhaps you should get your speedo checked. It's obviously very innacurate.

What's 4 MPH between friends? 56 MPH is closer to 90.12 KPH.

Was quite amazed to see a yankee trucker on BBC News 24 doing pretty much everything behind the wheel. Brushing his teeth, reading and eating.

Sparky33_2

anewman wrote: »

What's 4 MPH between friends? 56 MPH is closer to 90.12 KPH.

Quite a lot when you are going through SPECS monitored roadworks and you are doing 50mph, but the trucker behind is reluctant to slow down. OK, so they might have an accurate tacho and I am relying on my speedo, but if I want to avoid a ticket I'll do it my way, not speed up because of some trucker driving right up my backside,thank-you-very-much!
Unless, of course it is a foreign lorry, he'll just swing out and hoof past me at 70mph! And I hate to think how fast the Irish artic was going that passed me like I was standing still. I was only trundling along at 80mph on my motorbike at the time!!!!!

Anyway, this isn't a bash-a-trucker post, it's regarding van speeds. I was going to buy a 125bhp Transit after a long-distance run in a hired one, but when I was sitting at 105mph on the motorway, and it still had plenty of pull left in it, I realised that I would be getting into trouble very quickly if I did get one. Especially when I was told I was slightly overweight (cheeky git, oh, he means the van, OK).

The manufacturers are partly to blame IMHO. Yes, you should be aware of differing speed limits for vans, but to keep on making Jumbo vans with ever more-powerful engines isn't doing anyone any favours. Maybe if they lost a gear, but not so they simply can "stretch their legs" even further.

Out of all my colleagues that own large vans, no-one, myself included, thinks about jamming on the anchors when we are in the outside lane at 70mph and we see a police car. (Even when we are doing 80mph!!!)
As with most people, we want to get the job done, get home in one piece, quickly. In a smooth, powerful, quiet van with a comfortable driving position, arm-rest (!!) and nice CD player, it feels like a nice car, it's too easy to maintain unlawful speeds.

My old Iveco used to feel like it was breaking up if I hit 80mph, and it felt like being in a bucket hit with a stick after a while. I'd get out with my head wobbling like in a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Maybe I should ditch the Sprinter, and go back to that for the sake of my licence. Especially when someone says that the Talivan cameras can differentiate between van sizes and their speed limits.

Oh, and whoever mentioned the weights of loaded vans is onto another subject most van drivers neither know, nor care about. Plenty of people I know only think the van is fully loaded when it is full, not because the wishbones are flat.

Ignorance is no excuse, but more education and information, hints and reminders, should be given to the users of large vans, until no-one can say " I didn't know about that..."

Keith

alun4 wrote: »

I have two vehicles - almost identical. A mercedes vito dualiner (6 seats) and a mercedes viano (6 seats). Any thoughts !! ????

You have too many children?

Conor_3

Sparky33 wrote: »

Quite a lot when you are going through SPECS monitored roadworks and you are doing 50mph, but the trucker behind is reluctant to slow down. OK, so they might have an accurate tacho and I am relying on my speedo, but if I want to avoid a ticket I'll do it my way, not speed up because of some trucker driving right up my backside,thank-you-very-much!

I must admit you get my support there. Yeah it's frustrating as hell for us dawdling along at 45 behind cars but it's not as if the reason why isn't known.