Know your speed limits !!!!

[predator]

i,ve known rhis for a while but when i mentioned it to friends thought i was talking rubbish i said anything taxed for goods i,e delivering goods has speed restrictions.I did try to say it in a differant light they dont want white van man loaded up to the hilt plowing along doing car speeds as loaded vans cant stop period " but a car canetc . A bit like i tried to tell people when i,am driving 44 ton artic if you had a double pedel for both feet it still wont stop it will only slow down so dont cut hgv,s up etc as its very dangerous they cant stop give them room

[oldwoodcutter]

So the way i see it,if you're in a ranger or hilux towing any trailer,dont go over 50 single carriageway,and 60 on dual or motorway.

Is that right?

[scraggs]

So the way i see it,if you're in a ranger or hilux towing any trailer,dont go over 50 single carriageway,and 60 on dual or motorway.

Is that right?

 

It appears it's that if you are towing or not.

[Serendipity]

Only if you are towing. Pickups like hilux and ranger are classed as motor cars.

If you are pulling a trailer in any car there are speed restrictions.

[Paul Jenks]

A 7.5t vehicle, towing or not, is supposed to be speed limited to 56mph. It should also have a sticker in the window telling the driver that this is the case. It's part of the MOT. Your 6,8,12 week check should pick this up if the assigned service engineer is any good. All part of the O licence regs.

Any vehicle towing is limited to a max of 50 on single carriageway and 60 on dual and motorway. Also, a towing vehicle is not allowed in the outside lane of the motorway.

[difflock]

A bit like the origional poster.

We had a guy done, and yes 3 points convicted done, for doing 60 in a Transit.

By a camera van.

Sorry Sir but you were restricted to 50.

Both the other Supervisor and myself were spitting blood, until we thought to check "der computer"

Well Doh!

I presume a combination of (perhaps GPS to establish location), linked to the correct limit for that location, or road type manually entered on each site by the operator, and combined with ANPR (to establish veh weight) would be easily configured..

Not sure about Ranger Pick-up type vehicles.

BUT for absolute sure CDV (car derived vans) are treated as vans and not cars.

Though the plated weight does come into it.

So the two payload varients of the older Peugeot Partner, one was "in scope" the other, lighter by 200kg, got treated like a car.

Edited September 21, 2013 by difflock

[Coletti]

The speed restrictions apply to all commercials from berlingo vans to hilux/transit I believe, this should enlighten you a little

https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

 

 

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[oldwoodcutter]

So if your ranger or hilux is a 'goods vehicle' then that on its own is restricted to 50 on single carriageway,like Difflock's transit?

[harvey b davison]

I had to do a driving test for the nhs, the other week. I was driving a transit type box van. When i was doing a steady 60 on a single carrage nat speed limit road, i thought i was doing well until the examiner told me that the limit for transit type vans was 50 on a single carrage rd. The examiner was ex police as well.

[Coletti]

Correct, or at least that's how I understand it, as I say, it applies to even the smallest of vans eg. Transit connect, Peugeot expert and Citroen berlingo

 

 

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