Limiting vans to 56mph.

[Nigel]

this seems to back up sorens thoughts

[stephenperry]

i'd like to see the limiters on lorries be dropped to 40 like they're meant to do on nsl roads - a minority of these "knights of the road" can be very obstinate by keeping their foot flat to the floor at 56mph making their long vehicles difficult to overtake safely at times; like vans they are deceptively quick in accelerating if unladen

[Søren]

i'd like to see the limiters on lorries be dropped to 40 like they're meant to do on nsl roads - a minority of these "knights of the road" can be very obstinate by keeping their foot flat to the floor at 56mph making their long vehicles difficult to overtake safely at times; like vans they are deceptively quick in accelerating if unladen

I trust you mean some kind of GPS based Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) system which limits the speed to the applicable limit for the road/vehicle, rather than simply limiting the vehicle to a blanket 40 mph.

Either option sounds like a bad idea IMHO.

I feel they are being obstinate and bloody minded when they stick to 40 on a nice wide straight 'A' road!

But that is the speed limit...

And I'm meant to enforce it!

[Gareth]

I feel they are being obstinate and bloody minded when they stick to 40 on a nice wide straight 'A' road!

So we have a situation that is widely flouted, almost everybody thinks is unreasonable, and nobody dares campaign to change it.

It is convenient for the authorities, since it means that almost every HGV driver can be 'puilled' at almost any time. I expect this will be the future for all drivers, especially if (when) there is a blanket imposition of an unrealistically low speed limit on all rural roads.

[waremark]

I expect this will be the future for all drivers, especially if (when) there is a blanket imposition of an unrealistically low speed limit on all rural roads.

I thought there already was!!

[Nigel]

I've just has another horrid day on the A14, going to Suffolk & back.

If anyone wants to see the effect limited traffic has on the unlimited traffic, drive that road.

The worst one was coming back tonight, one lorry held us up for miles overtaking another, as soon as he pulled back in the one he had overtaken pulled straight out, nearly squashing me and he then held us up for miles again, overtaking the lorry that had just overtaken him.

Restricted vehicles should be kept in lane one of all roads at all times.