UK Speed Limits for vans ....................

[grantr37]

I got speaking to a person who bought a dodge ram left hand drive truck from America and he was telling me that the rules for importing it would have forced him to spend £4,500 modifying it as it was coming from the USA so he paid a transport company to put it on a cargo train to Canada and shipped it from there, saving £4,500 as different rules from Canada, he then had to put it through an mot straight away even though it was new and had 400 miles on the clock and had to register it as a medium goods vehicle and get it "stickered" as he called it for which they charged him £750 for a short visit to a special vosa test station, informed me that as it was 3.5 tons empty, he could use it for personal use but not for his farm as it would need a digital tachograph and for him to sit an hgv test and that he was not allowed to tow a trailer with it, he had it all done up with fancy chrome exhausts and big light bars.


In the USA from what I'm led to believe (my ex is American, her dad owns a car parts manufacturing company) you can drive a 15 ton trailer home the size of an intercity bus on a plain car licence..

 

[Midwest]

But it’s not.
The requirement is for the road to be iluminated during the hours of darkness.

You need to go on a speed awareness course

 

[Midwest]

Apparently these national speed limits don't apply to large white vans.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

You need to go on a speed awareness course

Done one year before last.

 

[Midwest]

Done one year before last.

It didn't have a lasting impact?

I can still recall details from mine after a year

 

[Octopus]

Apparently these national speed limits don't apply to large white vans.

Is that why they are all hogging the outside lane of motorways at 85 mph

 

[Midwest]

Is that why they are all hogging the outside lane of motorways at 85 mph

Nope, they the ones flashing me, 'cos I'm sat in the middle lane

 

[Octopus]

Aye, became aware a few years back. The fixed speed cameras round here don't differentiate, I have heard some ANPR equipped ones do though.
I could get mine reclassified with some modifications, but it's not worth it, I'll just keep it easy on the right foot.

I asked my mate who used to be a plod about this last night.

His view was that no fixed cameras can tell what category vehicles are ......... and Police car units with ANPR could but he thinks that the coppers driving wouldn't bother to check ..........

So nice and vague then.

 

[Andy78]

I asked my mate who used to be a plod about this last night.

His view was that no fixed cameras can tell what category vehicles are ......... and Police car units with ANPR could but he thinks that the coppers driving wouldn't bother to check ..........

So nice and vague then.

From 2 years ago

https://www.businessvans.co.uk/van-law/speeds/smart-speed-camera-warning-to-van-drivers/

 

[buzzlightyear]

Not been stopped yet

you have to wait .

 

[Midwest]

I asked my mate who used to be a plod about this last night.

His view was that no fixed cameras can tell what category vehicles are ......... and Police car units with ANPR could but he thinks that the coppers driving wouldn't bother to check ..........

So nice and vague then.

From 2 years ago

https://www.businessvans.co.uk/van-law/speeds/smart-speed-camera-warning-to-van-drivers/

Think Murdochs police chum, whas referring to fixed cameras, are the ones that are placed at accident hotspots, and just collect pics of vehicles exceeding the posted speed limit, the device just does that.

Whereas the average speed cameras may do more, as they are an ANPR device.

Ones in cop cars, the operator may have to interpret the information provided.

 

[Andy78]

The article I linked to refers to fixed cameras that have the ability to determine vehicle types and differing speed limits. Apparently.

 

[Midwest]

The article I linked to refers to fixed cameras that have the ability to determine vehicle types and differing speed limits. Apparently.

Yep not these ones;


but these ones;


As far as my limited knowledge leads me
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?img...XbAhViIcAKHeM5AlcQMwiUAigkMCQ&iact=mrc&uact=8

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Have noticed pairs of yellow cameras next to gantries on the M25. No white lines on the road, so am assuming they are average speed cameras.

 

[rsgaz]

No white lines on the road, so am assuming they are average speed cameras.

If you mean this type...

...then, no, not average speed cameras, 'normal' HADECS3 cameras which don't need lines on the road and can monitor all lanes.