Speed awareness course

[CJM]

Great post mate, admitting you were wrong is a rare beast on here!

 

 

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It is I'll admit when I'm wrong although it was tongue in cheek admission.

[Daveyboy]

Make up a sticker with your speed limits on and stick it on the dashboard. Otherwise, if you collect enough points, you'll win a bike!

 

Did the course 2 weeks ago. Interesting the information they gave about cameras. Don't know if it's true but apparently, the cameras on the front and the back of the vans can clock you at 1000m. And the side camera can read a credit card at 400m. And they've got infrared coming so they can screw you at night.

 

There's been complaints down here about the number of donkeys that get knocked over. So the locals set up a petition and we now have 2 vans between Southampton and Bournemouth. Funny thing is that when Plod tested the accident hotspots, the only ones they caught speeding were the locals. Very few tourists were found to be speeding because they're the ones that pull over to take photos of donkeys. Dead or otherwise.

 

The days of being followed by Officer Dibble in his marked car for 200 meters are long gone.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Daveyboy

[Mat]

Make up a sticker with your speed limits on and stick it on the dashboard. Otherwise, if you collect enough points, you'll win a bike!

 

Did the course 2 weeks ago. Interesting the information they gave about cameras. Don't know if it's true but apparently, the cameras on the front and the back of the vans can clock you at 1000m. And the side camera can read a credit card at 400m.

 

The days of being followed by Officer Dibble in his marked car for 200 meters are long gone.

 

Handy for paying on-the-spot fines i s'pose.

[Daveyboy]

Said van not only records your speed but takes a video of the driver, and checks you for roadtax too! Now isn't that nice?

[agrimog]

pickups are classed as dual purpose vehicles, and not subject to the restriction, and it does not apply to any car derived van, these speed restrictions havent changed in years

[eggsarascal]

pickups are classed as dual purpose vehicles, and not subject to the restriction, and it does not apply to any car derived van, these speed restrictions havent changed in years

 

Are you sure?

 

Watch your speed in the farm pickup - Farmers Weekly

[chrisj]

Nope. 2800kg renault traffic VAN is 50 on single carriageway A roads, 60 Dual and 70 motorway. Any non-car based van. Even some smaller vans come under this now as they aren't car based anymore. But if it is a renault traffic camper van then same limits as a car. Madness! Since the camper could quite easily weigh more than an unladen van. Personally I think campers should have the same limits as vans. Whether that means vans should go up or campers down is a different discussion but there is absolutely no sense in them being different.

[chrisj]

Ooops missed a page of posts there. Was replying to the post on the previous page.

[chrisj]

just to add a bit of confusion (and I dont know the answer) I drive a van derived car -a transit connect with side windows and rear seats and solid back doors although the newer company ones have windows in the back door, where does this fit in ??

 

I've wondered that too. Does it have van limits as a van derived car or car limits? If it's van limits there are going to be loads of people coming unstuck with several similar models being sold as cars by several manufacturers.

[Stubby]

Is there not one from the kebab house to the cop shop in Yarmoth?

 

 

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