Any Speed Lorry Drivers Out There?

swain90

swain90

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Hi All,

Just wondering if any of you lorry drivers out there have been done for speeding while on the job?

It's a question that popped in my head some time ago and never got round to asking.

For people who have been caught, what were the circumstances and what happened with your employer?

Cheers

Swain90

E: title should say Speeding, not Speed.
 
I always like seeing all the foreign registered lorries happily sitting at 56MPH through the 40MPH average speed cameras. Always reminds me of when I lived in France and used to do exactly the same thing.

I suspect not that many british registered lorries bother speeding as all the big companies have GPS trackers on them now.
 
geekman said:
I always like seeing all the foreign registered lorries happily sitting at 56MPH through the 40MPH average speed cameras. Always reminds me of when I lived in France and used to do exactly the same thing.

I suspect not that many british registered lorries bother speeding as all the big companies have GPS trackers on them now.
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I thought we could get caught in france now? :confused:
 
Jez said:
I thought we could get caught in france now? :confused:
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Not until May 2017. And even then it'll only be a fine, they won't be able to add points.

I have my suspicions that even then, the fines may go the way of the early private parking tickets in that they'll be almost impossible to enforce, but we shall see.
 
paradigm said:
It would appear that the date changed. An article last May (22 May 2014) indicated that:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-speed-commit-motoring-offences-abroad.html
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"Previously only 25 of the 28 EU countries are taking part. However due to the ECJ ruling, Denmark, Ireland and UK are affected by the change in legal basis as the Directive will now also be extended to them with a later deadline of May 2017."

http://etsc.eu/faq-eu-cross-border-enforcement-directive/

I'd trust that more than the Mail personally.
 
geekman said:
Not until May 2017. And even then it'll only be a fine, they won't be able to add points.

I have my suspicions that even then, the fines may go the way of the early private parking tickets in that they'll be almost impossible to enforce, but we shall see.
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Hmm not sure of the exact details but I've a relative (UK resident) who was stopped for speeding in France, thought they'd got away with it and had forgotten about it, sometime later was in France and stopped again and this time they impounded the car (referencing the previous infraction) and he had to pay a fine to get it released.

Would assume the same would happen with lorry drivers if they had to make regular trips to France.
 
Rroff said:
Hmm not sure of the exact details but I've a relative (UK resident) who was stopped for speeding in France, thought they'd got away with it and had forgotten about it, sometime later was in France and stopped again and this time they impounded the car (referencing the previous infraction) and he had to pay a fine to get it released.

Would assume the same would happen with lorry drivers if they had to make regular trips to France.
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There's several things that don't add up there.

Firstly, assuming they were in a british reg car, when they were stopped the first time they'd have been forced to pay the fine - they quite literally make you follow them to the nearest cashpoint. If you can't pay, they take your car. So if they were stopped, there's no way they'd have let them go without paying.

If they were flashed by a camera, then there's no way it would catch up with them if they're in a british registered car. When the autoroutes were clear (which they are 99% of the time), I'd sit at 100-130MPH and never slow for the cameras. Got flashed more times than I can count, often with passengers pulling funny faces/making gestures at the camera etc, and when I was stopped by a gendarme with a radar gun for doing 110MPH in a 70MPH they simply made me pay the fine, with no mention of previous infractions. Ditto with border controls, which I passed many many times. I was once flashed at quite a bit more than 130MPH, and knew one guy in an R8 and another in a Panamera who were flashed at close to their cars max speed, again nothing happened to them.

The simple fact is, if you're in a foreign registered car abroad, there is no way a fine from any automated camera will catch up with you. That's the whole reason they've introduced this legislation.

Sorry for taking this thread massively off topic, but there's a huge amount of misinformation surrounding this stuff and it's one of the few things I actually know a bit about :p
 
geekman said:
There's several things that don't add up there.

Firstly, assuming they were in a british reg car, when they were stopped the first time they'd have been forced to pay the fine - they quite literally make you follow them to the nearest cashpoint. If you can't pay, they take your car. So if they were stopped, there's no way they'd have let them go without paying.

If they were flashed by a camera, then there's no way it would catch up with them if they're in a british registered car. When the autoroutes were clear (which they are 99% of the time), I'd sit at 100-130MPH and never slow for the cameras. Got flashed more times than I can count, often with passengers pulling funny faces/making gestures at the camera etc, and when I was stopped by a gendarme with a radar gun for doing 110MPH in a 70MPH they simply made me pay the fine, with no mention of previous infractions. Ditto with border controls, which I passed many many times. I was once flashed at quite a bit more than 130MPH, and knew one guy in an R8 and another in a Panamera who were flashed at close to their cars max speed, again nothing happened to them.

The simple fact is, if you're in a foreign registered car abroad, there is no way a fine from any automated camera will catch up with you. That's the whole reason they've introduced this legislation.

Sorry for taking this thread massively off topic, but there's a huge amount of misinformation surrounding this stuff and it's one of the few things I actually know a bit about :p
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There are some aspects of the incident that I've probably not been told - as his mum had to go over there to pickup the car as they wouldn't release it back to him for some reason.

I do know the speeds were considerable - well in excess of 100mph and I'm fairly sure he mentioned being flashed the first time (reading the post I made about it closer to the time where I mentioned him being flashed) - I can only go on what he said as to them referencing the previous incident when impounding the car rather than just getting him to pay a fine and then on his way.
 
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Never once been caught speeding whilst in an HGV over 18years of driving them......


Emphasis on caught. ;)

It's sometimes hard not to break the limit in one, that's not to say it's an ideal or the intention of the vast vast majority of HGV drivers, myself included.
 
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I got done by the camera at the bottom of the hill on the westbound A52 just off the A1 a few years ago now.

I had been going by it for months at about 47-50mph same as everyone else. This was when HGV limits were 40mph on single carriageways.

That particular morning it flashes me. When I said about it the next morning in the canteen about 4 others drivers said "Yeah that b*stard got me too this week"

Well gee... Thanks for telling us in advance !!

You're allowed about "two hits" before the company insurance starts getting narky !
 
I drive a long stretch of the A1 every day, and the lorries are almost always over the limit, except for when the get to the speed cameras, then they slow down to 40 (in Scotland) and 50 (in England), and it is really quite annoying. Why the hell do they think a gatso can tell what kind of vehicle they're driving? ): saddens me to the core.

Does give me a chance to overtake at least.
 
You realsie that the cameras can and do tell the difference between the different sizes of vehicles. Its not hard to tell from a picture the size of a car and the size of an artic.
 
I found that out a few years ago, took the 18T lorry through a gatso in a 60 NSL at 52mph got flashed & NIP arrived, Managed to get let off in the end after a phone call enquiring about my licence.
 
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