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Speeding Ticket
Blu:
Has anyone off MC gone tried writing a PACE letter?
I am very,very tempted too,but I a going to arange a free 30 minute consultation through my union's solicitors for a little more legal advice.
Wanderer:
I have heard that if you share the vehicle with someone else you can say you aren't sure who would have been driving the vehicle and couldn't be sure you wouldn't perjure yourself in saying who you thought was driving.
Apparently this was used by a serving police officer but may be urban myth.
Sider:
--- Quote from: "woody" ---
--- Quote from: "mark.yellow.series.3" ---i got done on the A1 in my tranny van doing 70mph, because the speed limit in a big van is 60mph. i didnt know this :x
so for anyone out there that drive a panel van (transit or other type) or upto 7.5tonnes wagon (catagory is light goods upto 7500kg)
your speed limits are
single carageway 50mph
duel carrageway (like A1) 60mph
motorways 70mph.
so now i drive at the speed limit, all cars backed up behind me flashing there lights, but hay what can you do :wink:
--- End quote ---
wow didnt know that
i knew HGV
single carageway 40mph
duel carrageway (like A1) 56mph
motorways 56mph.
56mph = speed limiter
--- End quote ---
Not quite. Dual carriageway for HGVs (as in over 7.5T) have a 50 mph limit. Motorways have a 60 mph legal limit, but with the limiter, some of us are restricted to 53, unless going downhill heavily loaded :D
As for the Transit van, it depends on the GVW. If it is under 2 Tonnes, normal speed limits apply. If over, it goes into the Goods Vehicles under 7.5T category.
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.htm
Scroll down a bit, you will find the table with the different limits.
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