Does anyone know how much it would cost to retro fit a speed limiter to a van or truck?
Is it easy? Or cheap?
I’m thinking about fitting them to our vans as I’m fed up of the way the boys drive and how much they cost us in fuel.
The vans in question and long and medium wheel base sprinters and vito vans ranging in age.
No installation necessary, can be done at any dealer or someone using a star machine 
. It is only a case of having it enabled & set to a speed of your choosing.
Yep, totally agree. It can all be done with electronics at your friendly local dealer’s. Gone are the days when they used to fit restrictors under the carburettors!
Yea, anything with an engine ecu can just have a speed limit imposed by a main dealer with a laptop, they will probably charge £150 for 10 minutes work but it will save money in the long term. Otherwise you could bring in a small bonus for better fuel economy?
if their all modernish van’s, you can try any one who remap’s vehicle’s for more power etc, as they can probly put a speed and/or rev limiter on them. if you have a few of them you might be able to get a discount aswell…
where are you, as the garage i’m at can remap vehicle’s…
Or fit a restrictor under the carb?!?!?!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Or fit a restrictor under the carb?!?!?!
bloody hell, bringing back the 90’s with carb’s. i’m asumming the OP is running post yr 2000 vehicle’s so will have a tddi/tdci/dti/cdti etc powered vehicle. so sould be able to re map the ecu to allow a limiter to be fitted.
many citroen/peugeot vehicle’s have a user adjustable limiter built in to cruise control, did make me wonder why the peugeot i had today wouldn’t go above 18mph 
not sure if it can be locked so the driver can’t alter it though?
About £70 at the merc dealer
Thanks for all the comments, the vans range in age from 02 up to 55 in the mercs and we also have a lonesome transit that’s 1 year old, in total we have 12 vans and we are based in Magor South Wales.
It sounds like it will be easier and cheaper than I though.
In reply to your post Harry, they only really use the vans for driving to and from site once a day, to the yard and sometimes in between sites on busy days. They probably wouldn’t be interested in the scheme as we couldn’t produce enough of a saving to make it an incentive (I don’t think we would, maybe we can?) but if it slows them down (some have been caught on the trackers doing over 90!) and makes them safer, improves our image and we get less phone calls I’m all for it, especially if as a bi product we save money.
ibson:
Thanks for all the comments, the vans range in age from 02 up to 55 in the mercs and we also have a lonesome transit that’s 1 year old, in total we have 12 vans and we are based in Magor South Wales.It sounds like it will be easier and cheaper than I though.
In reply to your post Harry, they only really use the vans for driving to and from site once a day, to the yard and sometimes in between sites on busy days. They probably wouldn’t be interested in the scheme as we couldn’t produce enough of a saving to make it an incentive (I don’t think we would, maybe we can?) but if it slows them down (some have been caught on the trackers doing over 90!) and makes them safer, improves our image and we get less phone calls I’m all for it, especially if as a bi product we save money.
If you have tracking data showing regular excessive speeding I would get the limiters sorted a bit quick, if anything goes wrong that data will screw you big time.
I have to agree with sunnydevon. If something nasty were to happen & the law got hold of downloads of your tracker, you would probably be charged with at least Aiding anbd Abetting the offence and possibly Causing or Permitting. Big time penalties for this sort of thing, matey. If you decide to get the speed electronically limited, you would be able to show to a court that you had taken Reasonable Precautions to prevent your employees exceeding the limit. You would probably have to have the limiters set to the vehicles’ legal speed limit for this defence to have any standing. but, IMHO it would be a small price to pay, espacially if you are currently getting phone calls.
We don’t get that many phone calls, and I can’t really say they are down to speeding, we have had words with certain people and they have improved, I don’t want to portray an image that I allow, encourage or do nothing about speeding, I was merely stating it has happened, it’s only now I have thought about limiters because of the combined speeding/fuel costs.
In my opinion we do enough to cover our arse, and I’m a strong believer there is often to much money spent in company’s trying to pass the buck or bubble wrap them selfs. It’s one reason wages are often to low because money was ill spent else where.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Yep, totally agree. It can all be done with electronics at your friendly local dealer’s. Gone are the days when they used to fit restrictors under the carburettors!
The Petrol engine in a lorry went out of fashion just after Mafeking was relieved 
Has Mafeking been relieved, then? Why didn’t somebody tell the rest of us?
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Has Mafeking been relieved, then? Why didn’t somebody tell the rest of us?
Corporal Jones has been telling you that for years but you just haven’t been listening! 
Pete.
They don’t like it up 'em!
ibson:
Does anyone know how much it would cost to retro fit a speed limiter to a van or truck?Is it easy? Or cheap?
I’m thinking about fitting them to our vans as I’m fed up of the way the boys drive and how much they cost us in fuel.
The vans in question and long and medium wheel base sprinters and vito vans ranging in age.
Our place has 3 limited sprinters ,no need for a dealer if your mechanic has the software if not shop around for a class 7 MOT garage they will have the software and will be cheaper than the dealer .We also have had the vans re mapped for fuel efficiency and torq and the difference in fuel use when compared to a brand new sprinter hired in is quite a lot so well worth doing ,masses more pulling power and much less fuel used on longer trips.
Just warn the drivers if you do get it done though as for whatever reason when that limiter is reached it’s sometimes like hitting a brick wall 
Simple.
Say: Either stop speeding. Or you’re sacked.
Cheapest solution of all…
I’d go with the limiters, set at (a true, not speedo reading) 70, or even 65 if you really want to save fuel. Even at 70, you’ll see a big difference.
Alternative is to lecture the drivers: Tell them you will be monitoring speeds on the trackers.
1st offense: verbal disciplinary (keep a record)
2nd: written warning
3rd: dismissal.
That’ll sort 'em out.
Well I think we have decided to have a word with the drivers and just monitor for now and take further action if necessary.
We don’t employ drivers as such, we employ labourers, formen and machine drivers who can drive, and in our line of specialist work it makes it difficult to just replace people, so therefor its not best practice for us to just lay people off that are good at their job but rather try to give them a second chance to change their driving habits.
Thank you for all your comments, they are much appreciated and I have gained some knowledge and a few good ideas.