I.E. doing over 40 on a single carriageway can anyone tell me if they say yes why it is a good thing in their minds, `cos i cant.
If you answer yes please tell me why!.
Already answered on Tiggz thread.
Vote=yes, without a shadow of a doubt.
No, it’s not OK to speed in any vehicle.
Why is everybody in so much hurry to kill themself these days? It seems that the ones on here getting irate at drivers who stick to the limits are getting very wound up and stressed by it all. Chill, slow down and enjoy life without stress.
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Never in a million years!!!
Life is worth so much more than Rob getting to his delevery point!!!
Slow down life is important!
and your getting paid by the hour!!! whats the rush?
Speed kills!!!
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TC:
Never in a million years!!!Life is worth so much more than Rob getting to his delevery point!!!
Slow down life is important!
and your getting paid by the hour!!! whats the rush?
Speed kills!!!
Doesn’t matter whether I’m paid by the hour or not. The faster I get there, the more time I’ve got on the bunk 
. Someone should point this out to the trolley drivers and other agency drivers 
No.
Timed deliverys fuelled this garbage, its plain wrong, the law might be crap, but its there, we didnt make it, so try and change it, or abide, never put crap on anothrer for your own frustrations and selfish reasons, (thats to all that want to speed, and think barging about like a bully’s clever)
Rob K:
Doesn’t matter whether I’m paid by the hour or not. The faster I get there, the more time I’ve got on the bunk
Rob I know you are a good driver and the ■■■ you have said tonight is just another point you have been able to debate and have other drivers point of view aired!! ;lets face facts speed gets you to 3 things IMHO
1 quicker to your delevery point
2 dead
3 manslaughter
Most of us will give up on point 1 because of points 2 and 3
TC:
Rob I know you are a good driver
Are you feeling alright 
I voted No cos its not OK to speed, However I put my hands up to speeding when I personally think 1, I’ll get away with it and 2 it’ll stop the cars behind me getting frustrated.
E.g how many that voted no stick to 50 on the A1 or A14
If you stick to 40 on the A15 to lincoln you’ll find cars passing at the worst times.
If you do 50 though then theres a good chance of getting a ticket.
I personally will not speed just because the office wants me to or because another ‘professional driver’ sat behind me wants me to. I may speed though to keep the flow of traffic going e.g A15 for the cars behind me because most of them aint professional enough to know when they can and can’t overtake.
I also let trucks wanting to pass me pass at the earliest possibility, even if it means pulling into a laybye.
I did most of my early driving in Germany where you had to stop short at places such as level crossings to allow cars to pass you. I still do so now to the surprise of other drivers who i often have to physically wave passed me. Perhaps its an habit more should get into??
i voted no, which should be obvious from rant post…
rob k wrote
The faster I get there, the more time I’ve got on the bunk
you may get more time in a bunk, and someone may get more time in a coffin than they thought too. it seems to be that you are quite a good or a really good driver rob with obviously shed loads of experience, if this is the case why talk a lot of crap and sound like a really bad one 
is it that you have a reputation to keep up on here or what
i was chatting to someone bout you the other night and they told me that rob k is a sound bloke a real genuine trucker and would do anyone a favour, but in that post that isn’t how you came across 
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I personally DETEST the 40 limit. It’s safer to do 50 to 56. I can attest to that after personal experiments, as can others on here. However, 40 is the legal limit, and there are cameras out there that will catch you if you do speed.
So, I stick to 40, and calmly watch the people behind try and comit suicide to pass me. I’ll campaign for a sensible limit (say 50) for trucks on A roads, but while the law says 40, I’ll do 40.
I can understand why some will do 50 or so, and I won’t condemn them, the cameras will get them sooner or later.
margatemafia:
i voted no, which should be obvious from rant post…rob k wrote
The faster I get there, the more time I’ve got on the bunk
you may get more time in a bunk, and someone may get more time in a coffin than they thought too. it seems to be that you are quite a good or a really good driver rob with obviously shed loads of experience, if this is the case why talk a lot of crap and sound like a really bad one
i was chatting to someone bout you the other night and they told me that rob k is a sound bloke a real genuine trucker and would do anyone a favour, but in that post that isn’t how you came across
Wayne I couldn’t give a zebidee what anyone else thinks. If you wanna know then you should meet me and find out for yourself. If what I’ve said on the various forums upset you then you’d best stay away. I hold no grudges. 
I don’t need to tell you or anyone else that I have strong beliefs and am a ‘tad’ opinionated, but I’d be the first to put my hand up if I was wrong. Who’s perfect anyway . Certainly not me.
I voted yes because the 40 limit is more of a hazard nowadays than a safety thing because it holds up traffic making cars pass you and take stupid risks that cause more danger also causes road rage when tempers flare at being stuck behind you
simon
i voted yes, it isn’t because i agree that we should all ignore the speed limit for trucks on single carriageways but that we as professional drivers have to think for the looneys out there.
i am not condoning speeding and don’t think it’s right to be doing over 40 all the time on these roads but there are occassions when you know that if you don’t speed up just a little for a short time that the idiot in the bmw that is weaving in and out behind you is going to do something silly, perhaps his actions or your inactions will cause an accident, maybe even a fatality.
only this week i was travelling on the a605 when mr bmw estate came up behind me looking for an opportunity to get past, i increased my speed to 50 for a short time because i knew the road opened out with an overtaking lane about half mile up, he couldn’t even wait that long, he saw the smallest of gaps coming up and pulled out, i slowed down to 40 as he did this and he just managed to squeeze through before the car coming the other way crashed into him, he then slammed his brakes on, started blasting his horn and then gesticulated at me, this of course had no effect on my driving speed as i had already slowed below 40 anyway, the road opened out just 200 yards ahead, this guy wasn’t a young bloke either, he must have been knocking 60 years yet still he resorted to childish behaviour because i delayed him a little bit.
had i remained at 40 he may not have waited for the size of gap that came along.
there are times when a sensible driver will make allowance for those that don’t have much road sense.
there are also times when it is not safe to travel at over 40, every driver has to decide which is which and when is right.
i voted no
but
the 40 mph speed limit is dangerous, you get mr bmw overtaking you on blind bends because he wants to get his car out of 2nd gear and has deals to be done. it has been said before that with new technology like abs and power steering ,that trucks are safer to operate at 50 no problem.
but im paid by the hour and time is money 
so i will potter about like driving miss daisy . plus theres that many cameras near cannock that i have no choice anyway
jon
Even this post has turned into something which promotes dangerous driving by “professionals”
You are not expected to drive the car behind you, for the bloke to be able to judge an overtaking manoevre, He has to expect that the truck, bus tractor, horse rider will maintain a steady speed and course.
When a truck drives at a steady speed the driver can then make a decision to overtake or stay put. By increasing and decreasing your speed you have given him more to think about, and this may cause him to make the wrong decision!
At risk of getting slated for quoting the highway code yet again.
Maintain a steady speed and course or consider decreasing speed when being overtaken. The dangerous part of this is that the car may meet a truck driving on the limiter on a country road because the speed limits dont apply to all truck drivers
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To exceed the 40mph limit is illegal, but is it always dangerous?
Most of you think the limit is to low on certain streches of road, even if you don’t exceed the limit. So therefore you can’t really think that doing 50mph on some single carriageways is dangerous.
From the reading I’ve done into the reseach of speeding related accidents, my conclusion are that, that driving to fast is a factor, (although to fast doesn’t have to be exceeding the posted limit, but to fast for the conditions ) but is unlikley to be the cause, pressure of work, stress, incompetance and arrogance leads to bad driving, sometimes even from good and experienced drivers and then combined with being in the wrong place at the wrong time and you then have all the factors that lead to an accident.
Everyday we make decissions on what is a safe speed without the use of speed limits, you don’t go round some bends at 40mph just because that’s the limit for the road, because you know that the vehicle you are driving won’t take the bend.
So (hypothetically as exceeding the limit is illegal )maybe on a good section of road with good visibilty and where you can read the road well ahead it would feel more relaxed to let the truck roll along a steady speed nearer 50mph, with the the engine stting at just the right point for pwer and economy, than feel like you are crawling along at 40mph either in a lower gear or with the engine not at it’s optimum range.
Wheel Nut:
Even this post has turned into something which promotes dangerous driving by “professionals”You are not expected to drive the car behind you, for the bloke to be able to judge an overtaking manoevre, He has to expect that the truck, bus tractor, horse rider will maintain a steady speed and course.
When a truck drives at a steady speed the driver can then make a decision to overtake or stay put. By increasing and decreasing your speed you have given him more to think about, and this may cause him to make the wrong decision!
At risk of getting slated for quoting the highway code yet again.
Maintain a steady speed and course or consider decreasing speed when being overtaken. The dangerous part of this is that the car may meet a truck driving on the limiter on a country road because the speed limits dont apply to all truck drivers
please visit the following web site for further information on safe driving by professionals.
safespeed.org.uk/stevethomas.html
ask yourself who travels more miles per year?
the police or truck drivers?
although the police are trained to drive at high speeds we are not talking about high speeds are we?
what we are talking about is safe speeds above the limit set for our vehicles, so what exactly is the difference between rolling down a hill on a motorway at above the speed limiter settings and travelling faster than 40 mph on a single carriageway.
as a by line it is our responsibility to think for other drivers, that is what makes us the professionals we proclaim to be, when you see a car waiting to enter your path from a side road, are you really sure they are not going to pull out in front of you?
no, you have to think that perhaps they may, adjust your speed as if you believe they will pull out or slow down or let them out anyway.
as for quoting the highway code, the reference you make is from the being overtaken section which until the driver behind pulls out to overtake we are not being overtaken and as per my post, i always slow down, as per the highway code practices.
you may also want to review the section for overtaking, especially the articles about safe overtaking.
I also voted NO, it isn’t OK to drive a truck at over the legal speed limit. It is illegal.
I do think the limit should be raised to 50, but I doubt very much that it ever will be, for the reasons I posted in Tiggz thread.
I used to be a flyer going everywhere at warp factor 5 but then I ended up with no margin on my licence for another conviction (Although I was not guilty on two of the convictions but that ground has been covered elsewhere on here)
So I was basicaly forced to stick to the speed limits or I’d lose my licence/business.Since this has happened You become very aware of all the muppets out there for example the ■■■■■■ driving a space cab daf for calvers on the A134 eastbound on thursday lunchtime.
I was driving at 40 mph with him a few cars & trucks behind me when I came to a clear straight I was indicating left to let the vehicle behind me know it was clear.
Everything was fine and dandy with both cars & hgv’s passing with a wave of thanks or flash of indicators.'til calvers muppet’s turn.A couple of times I indicated left but he was obviously too close to see my indicators because he did not pass until we came to a stretch with a some houses on the left and a bend that goes off to the right and uphill slightly at the end of the straight.
He came round me even tho you cant see far enough in the distance and obviously couldn’t see the black van parked on my side of the road until he was alongside me then we saw the artic coming the other way,but this did not deter him from completeing his manouvere and I had to stand on the brakes & stop to give him enough room to get in front.
What thanks do I get for saving his life ■■■■ all .
So as far as I’m concerned All calvers space cabbed drivers are now tossers & I shall treat them accordingly and they wont get past me on a single carriageway again.Theres no way I’m going to let a muppet take the front of my cab off and if they insist I’ll stop the motor blocking the whole road & I’ll take their face off.
My motor is my living I almost went bankrupt last year when an idiot in a low loader changed lanes on the A14 without even looking in his mirror and I was halfway past him.
I aint a fan of the 40 limit but thats what it is so thats what I’ll do.If you want to go faster and you are behind me I’ll let you know when it’s safe to come past me.If you sit so far up my arse you cant see my lights expect my trailer to sudedenly rush towards your windscreen as I stab the brakes.
I’ve nothing against speeders if they are safe (which is not a contradiction in my books) but if you act like an arse you’ll get treated like one