A good move but a better one would be to allow temporary overrides to the limiters. Nothing has turned the public more against lorry drivers than ‘elephant races’
I have had no end of online arguements with people who think you should drive hundreds of miles trapped behind a slightly slower vehicle, rather than take several miles overtaking. .
Hmm mixed feelings on that one mate.
You want to give them.another excuse to plan you to running ragged even more?
Some of em are bad enough now.
Then you would get the stress head teararse clowns constantly overriding it at every opportunity.
As for elephant races…I kinda agree with the public on that one tbh mate.
I don’t get involved in elephant racing, I just back off a couple of clicks to let Mr Heartattack past if he aint got a second to spare.
The only time I find that scenario developing is if I am professional enough to let his mate Mr Stroke out of a junction, and he tries to leave me hanging, …thus showing me he aint as professional.
So again I will back off, pull back in, tut and shake my head and call him a ■■■■.
Apart from that, being on hourly rate I am never in a rush…(apart fron maybe trying to get home asap on a Saturday if Newcastle are on Sky Sports.
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Not a case of being a teararse, more a case of maintaining a reasonable journey time. Paris to Bordeaux is around 600 kms, do you really want to be trapped behind a slower vehicle for the best part of 7 hours? And to look at it another way would you be so happy to be in your car under such a restriction? I know I wouldn’t.
One of my first jobs here was just such a journey. I left as soon as I was loaded, I spent no more downtime in the services that I wasn’t required to under the law, but I was slowed down from my steady average by tankers and other such slower vehicles, because of the limiter and arrive for my 2pm rdv at Auchan at 2.05pm on a Friday. Refused ‘come back again on Monday, what time would you like?’ Rang the Boss and he effectively said 'sod ‘em, bring it home’ 50kms N of Perigueux. So I did and hoped that the idiot that invented the limiter missed his Kelloggs for breakfast that weekend. 
Hourly paid drivers…who wants to go fast? 
I get it mate …trust me.
But the fault is with the planners and the planning schedules set, not gaining a couple of clicks on your limiter… no consideration nor time allowed for general unforseen circumstances.
I have planned traffic before in the past, and I always allowed for unforseens.
On the other hand I have also sat on the limiter in the past trying to catch a boat.
As for your car metaphor…how is that relavant?
My point is by passing the limiter, the stressheads (no I was not meaning you, I do not know you) would just use it as a facility to get through their endurance test of a day…
Which I would think, that these clowns were the primary reason for limiters coming out as I remember in the 80s/90s, in the first place.
LOL Mr heart attack & Mr stroke, I couldn’t have put it better myself, We had quite a few of them in Inter-city transport, they’d break their necks to get back to the depot, No tachos are limiters in those days & you could sit at 60-65mph all day, The trouble was they expected everyone to be the same, I had umpteen arguments over it, i.e. they’d give you a night trunk motor to do the job, I always said why are you giving me this unit? I won’t be back as the job is a night out.
The TM says well so & so has done it, well bloody well let him do it then.
Yep same here, I used to get the ‘‘Well so and so can do it’’ on a lot of things.
I just came back with ‘It never ceases to amaze me what some drivers here do, but I aint one of em’'.
They left me alone after a while.
Not joking about the heart attack/stroke thing either…2 of em in 12 months (so far) , I kid you not.
Both stresshead … ‘superstars’.
I should not complain as I jumped on one of em’s (far superior to mine) truck like a vulture. 
I think that the Scots have dodged a bullet by keeping the 40mph limit!
IIRC when it was proposed to raise the limit to 50 here in civilisation one very vocal member (Conor) foretold of an impending Armageddon about to befall the country!
How did that work out?
What I see is trucks using A and B roads to avoid motorways and then holding everyone up by refusing to drive over 35 mph in a 50 mph limit.Also plenty of car drivers doing same.
I started driving when there was no speed limiters and you could do 60mph. Driving become a lot more stressful after the speed limiters came in, no longer able to accelerate past things, put your foot down on hills and so on. I recall my very first drive with a speed limiter, I was coming home late from Scotland, I think it was a Friday and the A74/M6 was very quiet. I came across a Fiesta doing 50 and when I went to go past it the driver matched my speed, this went on for several miles, I eventually pulled into a services, had a coffee and 30 minutes later I resumed my journey, only to have that Fiesta pull out in front of me from the next service area.
Must say people on here are very lucky not to have timed deliveries and companies that will indefinitely stay open for them.