towing a chipper in third lane of motorway

[eggsarascal]

Just to add to the confusion.....

 

My mate got a tug in his van doing 65 on a dual carriageway. He was arguing with bill but (apparently) a van with no rear windows is meant to be 10MPH less than the stated speed limit (not including the 30MPH limits)

 

Any thoughts / knowledge?? He got a ticket despite his protestations.

 

I was told the same a little while back, seems it right.

 

 

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

[bumble B]

Just to add to the confusion.....

 

My mate got a tug in his van doing 65 on a dual carriageway. He was arguing with bill but (apparently) a van with no rear windows is meant to be 10MPH less than the stated speed limit (not including the 30MPH limits)

 

Any thoughts / knowledge?? He got a ticket despite his protestations.

 

Good job my Canter still has a rear window, although obscured by the chipper box. Letter of the law and all that.

[difflock]

I (and not pulled/no points) cannot believe the plethora of possible combinations pertaining to different veh weights permed by the class of road and multplied by/for trailers.

Surely, surely surely it should be possible to streamline these extremely confusing laws.

For one thing vans up to 3.5 tonne should simply be treated exactly the same as cars.

They now drive as good, with all the safety features cars have.

And I would go so far as to say 7.5 tonne trucks ditto.(ie treat as a car)

Treat owt over 7.5 tonne different, but allow a sensible 50 mph on A roads.

marcus

[Lyn Ed]

same thing happened to us going up the m6 to Scotland one night, two arctics passing each other, we nipped out to the third lane with a dog trailer behind and got pulled and done.

[Breezeblock]

buy a crew cab iveco or a series land rover diesel it'll never be a problem again

[bumble B]

I (and not pulled/no points) cannot believe the plethora of possible combinations pertaining to different veh weights permed by the class of road and multplied by/for trailers.

Surely, surely surely it should be possible to streamline these extremely confusing laws.

For one thing vans up to 3.5 tonne should simply be treated exactly the same as cars.

They now drive as good, with all the safety features cars have.

And I would go so far as to say 7.5 tonne trucks ditto.(ie treat as a car)

Treat owt over 7.5 tonne different, but allow a sensible 50 mph on A roads.

marcus

 

I'm assuming you don't live in England then.

[difflock]

I'm assuming you don't live in England then.

 

Or perhaps rather choose to obey the rules/law where and when it is wise so to do:001_tt2:

[Ian C]

You can't tow in lane 3 I think

 

 

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Thats how I understand it, no trailers no caravans etc.

 

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[Ian C]

you can tow in 3rd lane if its an A road but remember its only 50mph on an A road as well

60mph on a M road

you can tow in the outside lane on a M road if its less than 3 lanes

 

And how many A Roads are 3 lane and how many MWays are 2 lanes :what:

 

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[chrisj]

Most of the M54 is 2 lane. Can't think of any A roads near me that are 3 lanes though. But then I am in the middle of the countryside though. It's 2 hours drive to reach a motorway.