Know your speed limits !!!!

[Al Cormack]

Are you saying that going out in the morning unladed it would be 50,60,60 and coming home full to the gunwales with chip it would now be 40,50,60 as the GTW is 8.25 tonnes?

 

Doesn't make sense in that any lorry plated at over 7.5 would be 40,50,60 at all times.

 

7.5t is your max gross weight full of chips or whatever.

In the morning you will be 2-3 ton lighter!

 

More than 7.5t and you are overloaded.

GTW is the vehicle (7.5t) plus trailer. So the trailer can only be max 750kg.

Edited September 22, 2013 by Al Cormack

[likeitorlumpit]

why did train weight get brought up:confused1:

a 7.5 tonner is loaded and if your gvw is less than this (ie legal) you don't have to do 40 on a single carriageway. You can go a whole 10mph faster. Great for winding up the 'following you so closely' kids

[openspaceman]

why did train weight get brought up:confused1:

a 7.5 tonner is loaded and if your gvw is less than this (ie legal) you don't have to do 40 on a single carriageway. You can go a whole 10mph faster. Great for winding up the 'following you so closely' kids

 

Some of us have the c1 plus e which entitles driving with a combination weight of 8.25 tonnes. IMO this means the combination is restricted to 40,50,60 at all times.

[sandy2210]

just been given a connect van with 2 sliding side doors with windows and proper back seats fitted, back windows blanked out. Anyone know what category/speed limits this comes under

[woody3]

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.

 

depends when the vehicle was built

[Al North]

I had to attend a speed awareness course a couple of months ago after doing over 50 whilst overtaking an hgv in a climbing lane on the A66. I saw the camera van, checked my speed was below 60 and carried on only to get the letter through the post. I was driving a double cab in van transit so should have been doing 50.

 

Car derived vans have the normal car limits but not sure where a transit connect would fit in.

 

Can also vaguely remember a farmer on the course discussing pickups with the trainer. I vaguely remember something about whether it was double cab or single cab having an effect on its status but I may be wrong.

[DN22 Gardening]

Hi all,

 

Been driving for about 25+ years now and thought i was fairly good.

For 25 of the above i've had my HGV ticket too.

 

Traveling North bound on the A1 last Sunday in the chip truck got flashed by a stationary camera.

 

Not a problem i thought, under 70 so ok. (actually doing 68)

 

WRONG !!!!

 

Apparently, the speed limit for a sub 7.5 ton vehicle on a dual carriage way is 60 !!!

 

Either its changed recently or i've been speeding daily for the last 20 odd years

 

Luckily the camera was behind so i'll be trying to blag off on the points [/

QUOTE]

 

hey Dave! I recently got done on the A1 at Elkesley in that 50mph section, is that where you got done to?

 

Did you get the job with those big Pops just outside of Tuxford

 

 

Hi Pete,

It was the one just outside of Grantham, northbound, just before the big Downtown store

 

Yes bud, we got the big pop job, just checking my price again

BT are trying to stuff us over the price of dropping the phone line for a week.

 

Should be doing it in the new year

[Chris Sheppard]

just been given a connect van with 2 sliding side doors with windows and proper back seats fitted, back windows blanked out. Anyone know what category/speed limits this comes under

 

Pretty sure as its a van derived car (rather than a car derived van) that it falls under the same as a van. Remember Dd saying once that they ran transit connects and Berlingoes at work and the connects were lmited in what speed they could go but the Berlingoes weren't.

[Alycidon]

You are all talking about camera vans.

 

Be aware that Gatso type fixed location cameras can be fitted with a tall attachment, this measures the height of the passing vechicle. Anything tall gets flashed if over 40mph on a single carriageway. There were some down in Devon a few years ago when I was last down there. Friend of mind driving a 38 ton curtainsider was keeping up with the traffic, all they cars went by the camera at about 45mph no problem, but he got flashed and done as his speed limit is 40mph.

 

So if you ever see a two very tall posts beside a fixed speed camera thats what it is.

 

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