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HGV's Doing 70 MPH Plus on Motorways
Kate-
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Hello
This morning, me and my other half were paying an early morning visit to my other half's mother. We only have a small car, Hyundai !10 but it can comfortably manage a cruise at 70mph.
Lorries are limited to 55 mph my other half tells me, yet on the M25, on a long gradient stretch of M-way, 3 lorries overtook us.
This may be rare but I for one cannot beleive that HGV's go alnog at 55mph its more like almost 70mph, how do they get away with it.
Btw, Tesco, and M&S lorries, all well presented and appear to manage just 55mph
This morning, me and my other half were paying an early morning visit to my other half's mother. We only have a small car, Hyundai !10 but it can comfortably manage a cruise at 70mph.
Lorries are limited to 55 mph my other half tells me, yet on the M25, on a long gradient stretch of M-way, 3 lorries overtook us.
This may be rare but I for one cannot beleive that HGV's go alnog at 55mph its more like almost 70mph, how do they get away with it.
Btw, Tesco, and M&S lorries, all well presented and appear to manage just 55mph
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my other half said that, but aren't HGV's very closely scrutinised and their graphs read?
The lorries were all UK reg
Thanks
i too would like to know
If they're non digital they can be fiddled
Ta for UK plated answer.
One of those 'knights of the road' presumably :rolleyes:
Just because i'm a woman, you taking the P mate??
The lorries you refer to can de driven on a car licence, the one's refer to are 50 foot monsters
Give me some credit mate.
If the lorry has a much more accurately calibrated speed limiter he could actually be doing a true 60mph while you are doing a true 55mph even though your speedo is telling you you are doing 60.
My other half complained to the police once about lorries over-speeding when we were stopped at morway cafe - the cop said they do their best. to stop all illeagal goings on
You could be going a bit slower than you think you are.
I used to have a BMW which was only doing a smidge over 70mph at a displayed 80mph.
A mate of mine is a truck driver and he reckons a lot of Irish lorries don't exactly obey the letter of the law with regard to this sort of thing when driving in England.
I don't know the details but it's something to do with there being separate British and Irish organisations which check tacho's and whatnot.
To add to the confusion, apparently there's some advantage in Irish companies buying lorries in England too; again summat to do with it being a "British" registered vehicle in Ireland.
Thanks for the reply but i don't buy into that theory.
thanks but our car has a tomtom and the speed displayed on the speedo in the when when at 72 is actually 70 via gps/tomtom, so out about 1%
whether you buy it or not, it's fact that the speedo in your car shows you driving faster than you actually are.
So those smiling frowning speed signs that show your speed are also wrong as they always show the same speed as my speedometer?
Error margins by car-:
http://click2how.com/your-speedometer-wrong-can-drive-faster/
Are you sure that these weren't foreign trucks, as some countries do not impose speed restricters, Ireland don't, so their trucks can do more.
So my speedo is off (could very well be) and every other car, bus and HGV which has passed me in my 9 years of driving has an accurate enough speedo to pass me while driving through an average speed check area ?
VERY unlikely.
Why are you bringing your sex into it? Very odd.
No, I'm saying that there are lorries that look just like HGVs, that can do 70.
As a woman, you should realise it's not the size that counts.
No its not. The limit for all non-car derived vehicles is 60mph on motorways. Anything over 3.5KT is limited to max 56mph as tachos are required.
Its not the tachos that get fiddled, its the calibrate speed limiters that get over-ridden. But any traffic cop worth his salt can spot the fiddlers a mile off - the little drilled holes always givet hem away.
Also HGVs are limited to 56mph and most supermarket lorries are limited to 52mph to help save the penguins.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Roadsafetyadvice/DG_178867?CID=TAT&PLA=url_mon&CRE=speed_limits