We hired a car on one of our trips over, with a satnav in it. It must have been linked to the car electrics I s’pose because it kept putting up a lighted speed limit sign on the speedo, and it was often wrong. The biggest error was on motorways when it showed that we were in a 20 limit ! If that’s technology, you can shove it, cos it worked the other way round as well.
Tris:
Bluey Circles:
Tris:
Bluey Circles:
how do you mean ‘monitored on your speed’ would someone in the office know you were speeding ? some sort of GPS snoop.It’s done through the tracker.
So if you break a speed limit is it automatically flagged up to the office or is it just if they take a random look at where you have been and what speeds you were doing? What I am trying to get at here is; is there some software now on these trackers that know all the speed limits and therefore know if they are being broken?
It’s done through the company sat navs (big change). I don’t even use the company sat nav. It’s doing my head in. I don’t think it works properly as since being called in I’ve been doing my best to comply and haven’t had a single 30 “infringement” for want of a better word which shows I’m making an effort, but have had loads of 50 mph zone over speeds flagged up (not nsla I.e car 60 limit zones) which I haven’t been speeding in. Seriously starting to think of jacking in as its frankly demoralising not being trusted to do my job.
I think it will be just a matter of time before devices like this are integrated into the vehicles preventing speeding, along with driver facing cameras I think it is on the way. We often joke about ‘steering wheel attendants’ but as time goes by it is becoming less of a joke and more of a reality. The job just gets worse and worse, fool wanted to sit in drivers seat and take all the blame when things go pear shaped.
Bluey Circles:
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"I think it will be just a matter of time before devices like this are integrated into the vehicles preventing speeding, along with driver facing cameras I think it is on the way. We often joke about ‘steering wheel attendants’ but as time goes by it is becoming less of a joke and more of a reality. The job just gets worse and worse, fool wanted to sit in drivers seat and take all the blame when things go pear shaped.
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That is exactly where its going, bloody glad i’ve got only 5 years to go.
I had toyed with staying on after retirement for while, but the more utter ■■■■■■■■ they come up with the more i look forward to hanging me bloody keys up for the last time.
Juddian:
Can’t say i’ve been caught out that often by sudden 30’s, and seldom is the 30 sign situated where you would be on the limiter and have no other reasonable warnings, as outlined above.Might be interesting as an experiment not using the brakes at all on approach to limits and roundabouts, all normal driving, instead solely using the auxilliary braking as fitted to near enough every lorry on the road, the foot brake should only be used in normal lorry driving to assist or back up the main engine/exhaust brake in the event of the unexpected, once you’ve got used to this way of work your fuel consumption will improve, your journey times won’t change indeed may improve because invariably you get better timings by not having to stop at roundabouts and your brake wear will be a fraction of what it was previously, makes lorry driving much more pleasurable…as a bonus your wheels will be the colour they were once painted and not caked in brake dust, and your service brakes will be cool at all times in the event of a real emergency brake being needed.
Doing this however you will be overtaken at the last moment on the approach to roundabouts by others at the wheel of lorries, the bulging eyed on a mission who then have to brace for maximum retardation in order to not be todays roundabout rollover
[emoji38] , personally that worries me not one bit, i’d rather have the bulging eyed in front instead of up me arse every time.
by the way our telematics system catches out excessive speeders, 50 limit but doing 55 won’t trigger the system which has some allowance built in but doing 50 in a 30 will fire up the system big time…agency bod who i had the misfortune to work with 20 years ago, he was an idiot then and hasn’t learned a thing in the meantime, i’d be surprised to see him in one of ours again.
+1
There should be a section of this forum where nuggets of wisdom like this can be easily found.
Any noobs out there reading this should take heed of the quoted post, adopting this technique and mastering it will not only lead to a more relaxed drive but also a level of forward planning well above and beyond an average driver.
Ehhh should inject the usual caveat of drive to the conditions and be mindful of the traction available etc and stuff.
Gears to go
Gears, auxiliary retardation and last resort brakes to slow.
Auto boxes will usually downshift automatically so no need to worry about the gears bit ever again 
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Nobody monitors our speed , mpg etc , as long as the load gets there and back that’s good enough for our lot , as it should be
Juddian:
Can’t say i’ve been caught out that often by sudden 30’s, and seldom is the 30 sign situated where you would be on the limiter and have no other reasonable warnings, as outlined above.
can only think of one off the top of my head. In grangemouth on a905 beancross road coming from m9 j5 NB to m9j5 SB off slip is a NSL straight into a 30. However would only be a 40 in scotland though down to a 30. Bit of a PIA in the car though if you dont know the road
Bluey Circles:
I think it will be just a matter of time before devices like this are integrated into the vehicles preventing speeding, along with driver facing cameras I think it is on the way. We often joke about ‘steering wheel attendants’ but as time goes by it is becoming less of a joke and more of a reality. The job just gets worse and worse, fool wanted to sit in drivers seat and take all the blame when things go pear shaped.
Seems like it’s the way. Stuff like this is the reason I chose to work for a smallish general haulier but cant see the point in staying now. I call it the baby monitor, that’s what it feels like. Time to find something different me thinks. Might as well earn a bit more with one of the big boys. Would like to get into tanker work, got my adr but never done tanker work.