Caught Speeding

[Tanis8472]

They have a habit of concentrating the mind. After an initial period of over-concentrating on the speedo I've largely got used to it now and relaxed back to driving on feel. I tend to view the box as a good thing, it will stop the temptations of youth for my lads and I feel happier knowing they know it's there and monitoring them.

I'm not disputing that, but anything over 53mph on the speedo (gps speed shows 50mph) get me in shoot.
I drive by feel too, but with modern diesel engines, a hiccup or sneeze soon puts you over the limit so easily. (Not making excuses btw)
I am just doing my LGV class C too. Work is paying for it, not bad when I only started there last August.
Yet They expect us to get drops done in an unrealistic time which drops us into Working time directive and driving hours laws.
They also dont want to pay overtime which doesnt help.
I do enjoy the job though (ironic eh).

 

[Racing roadkill]

I got caught speeding last year, on my bike, in a 30 limit, with a speed camera. There's a speed camera on a steep hill, going into Guildford. I tanked it down the hill, and through the speed camera bit at about 40. I gave the obligatory 'wave', got beeped at from behind, I didn't look to see who was beeping me, and gave them the obligatory 'wave' from behind my back, then got the blues and twos. I got a stern 'talking to', worth it.

 

[Tim Hall]

I can't find a suitable post to tag this to, so it'll have to stand alone.

In my mind the "speeding, oh everyone does it/I was just unlucky/it's only speeding" mindset blurs fairly quickly into the same reasoning mentioned in an earlier post where the police didn't prosecute the driver who clobbered a cyclist as "it was just a mistake." Part of the reason for this, I think, is the way dangerous and careless driving are defined

he way he/she drives falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful drive

and

Driving that falls below the standard expected of a competent driver

. So the person who clobbered me off my bike at a roundabout wasn't prosecuted, presumably because their driving wasn't at a standard that falls below that expected of a competent driver. It's a mindset that needs changing.

 

[Biff600]

[QUOTE 4800178, member: 9609"]No, why ?


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Unless you have done the course you aren't really in a position to comment on it's merits, whether good or bad.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Best way to stick to the lower limits is with correct use of the gears. 2nd for twenty limits, 3rd in a thirty and no higher than 4th in a forty. The engine note soon alerts you if you start to creep over.

 

[ufkacbln]

Best way to stick to the lower limits is with correct use of the gears. 2nd for twenty limits, 3rd in a thirty and no higher than 4th in a forty. The engine note soon alerts you if you start to creep over.

... unless you drive an automatic?

 

[raleighnut]

Best way to stick to the lower limits is with correct use of the gears. 2nd for twenty limits, 3rd in a thirty and no higher than 4th in a forty. The engine note soon alerts you if you start to creep over.

Not exactly an economical way to drive but better than a lot of drivers who 'lug' their engines in too high a gear.

 

[fossyant]

All you naughty speeders need poking with a pokey stick. Naughty lot.

 

[fossyant]

I see we're back to posts 'disappearing'.... I wonder whether that will happen to the racist posts elsewhere?

 

[swee'pea99]

[QUOTE 4800542, member: 45"]one corky bloke moaning that he was caught because overhead gantry limit signs on motorways are set without reason and go up and down randomly[/QUOTE]
Have to say they're a bugbear of mine.I don't think they're random, but I do think the controllers have a tendency to leave them on long after the reason for them has disappeared, thereby bringing the whole system into disrepute.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I recently insured a new car, Rang around a few companies and didn't get asked by any of them. Might just have been the ones I spoke to and others might but not all do.

i work for co-op insurance, and we don't ask either…

 

[Drago]

Once they're set theyre software controlled, and raise, lower or cancel the speed limit in response to traffic flow sensors on each gantry. They're not perfect, the software does sometimes crash, but there isn't a human being at the other end winding you up or set it to 30 and then gone for a fag. As User suggests, their function is based upon matephematical modelling of flow.

What really chuffs it up is twits that ignore the indicated speed, or who sit up each others tailpipe and exaggerate the ripple effect. If people did as they were instructed you wouldn't get mass pile ups like on the Sheppey bridge in the fog.

 

[swee'pea99]

Do they? Or do they keep them on to iron out the traces of the ripple effect, which can take some time to dissipate?

Who can say? All I know is that when I go under flashing *50* signs, as often as not everyone's carrying on at 70 give or take and the way ahead is as clear as if there'd been no signs.

 

[swee'pea99]

[QUOTE 4800669, member: 45"]I suggest that you complain to the computer[/QUOTE]
There's no point complaining to them, they pay no attention. You have to thrash them with a stick. It's the only language they understand.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Not exactly an economical way to drive but better than a lot of drivers who 'lug' their engines in too high a gear.

Not the case as it happens. My old banger can run at thirty in third with the engine somewhere around 2500rpm, it's neither laouring nor over revving. Most drivers gear too high at lower speeds under the mistaken impression it saves fuel. It doesn't if the engine is having to work harder to push the higher gear. It is all about knowing where the sweet spot begins and ends on your car.