van speed limits

[messerschmitt owner]

I once hired a van. Took the big one and drive it to Scotland with A 56mph limiter. Nine hours instead of six and a half. Was a nightmare. Imagine the a74 at 2am at 56....

[danthecapriman]

I drive a Sprinter for my job, tbh that speed limit is a very easy one to forget about. You tend to just follow traffic or drive as the road allows. All our vans are limited to 70mph aswell and it's too easy to forget about the speed limit of the roads and just run on the limiter.

An easy mistake to make!

[cms206]

Nice bit of irony with that 60 though.........

PSVs up to and including 12 metres overall length can legally do 70mph on the motorway, despite being limited to 62; PSVs over 12 metres are also restricted to 62mph, but by law can only do 60mph.

[Cavcraft]

I used to see the coppers round there most mornings, to be fair I couldn't complain because a lot of people would come past you like you were stood still.

Anywhere from the A55 roundabout to just past Chirk is dodgy, a bit of a reprieve by Oswestry then from Pant to just past Welshpool it's very dodgy ground if you're going some.

I had right years of driving those roads at least three times a week and never got done, it must just have been luck as I was flat out most of the time.

 

Ps when you go through Pant towards Welshpool as you go over the bridge, look to the right. There's a little railway bridge and it's a favourite hiding spot for hand held cameras, ditto that straight that always floods just before Welshpool. They used to use plain cars and have the door open and kneel down pointing the speed gun out of the open window!

[dollywobbler]

Timely. I'll be driving that stretch later. Though whether it's possible to speed in my new steed remains to be seen...

[Richard]

There was much hilarity on the SVM radios when we were passing through Pant last year. The average mental age of the SVM is approximately 11. We didn't speed though.

[oman5]

Nice bit of irony with that 60 though.........

In 1997 with the first haulage firm I worked for I can remember the deep joy and genuine excitement when given a truck old enough to be limiter exempt, a B reg F10 with a 385 lump fitted. Granted, I was working around the m25 at the time so there was little opportunity to give it serious welly but it was good to know the potential was there.

[Six-cylinder]

Having just bought a Citroen C15D van, thanks for bringing to my attention the van speed limit thing as I had not thought about it. I have now checked the V5 and it says car derived van , so we are ok. 

[dugong]

No, I didn't know that either - Car Derived vans can do 70 apparently, Vans can only do 60.

https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

Jesus, that's a lot of law-breaking. I didn't think banana DI Transits got sufficient cooling at less than 85. 

 

Wound KNOB_VAN up to a f*cking terrifying 90 once. It felt like being inside a giant labrador doing a poo. 

[doobietoo]

Look on the bright side my father in law used to recount a story of getting nicked for speeding down telegraph hill near Exeter he was doing 24 miles an hour when the speed limit for lorries was20

[Cavcraft]

If you have a Di engined Transit you should be exempt from commercial speed limits.

In fact, it should the law you have to rev the bollocks off them and go as fast as possible so you can enjoy the engine noise.

[fordperv]

Oh bugger turns out I've been speeding in the tourneo minibus at work, thank god I've not been caught

[Richard]

I'm surprised this is still catching people out. I'd have thought most people in the van driving fraternity would have heard about colleagues being caught by now.

[brickwall]

O wondered about all those stickers on the back of van saying that it only does 60 and some say governed as well.

[wuvvum]

Oh bugger turns out I've been speeding in the tourneo minibus at work, thank god I've not been caught

Tourneo normally counts as an MPV, so you should be OK.

[SambaS]

I was driving from Wales to Chester and somewhere near Wrexham just as the road literally just.... as the road became dual carriageway finally i could over take a damn lorry I, and a gazillion other cars had been behind. Wound car upto 70 before seeing the speedcamera van up the hill on a bridge.

 

Still waiting, NSL limit of 60mph I assume.

[Richard]

NSL for cars is 70 on dual carriageways.

[SambaS]

Might have just been an overtaking lane

[captain_70s]

I didn't know the limits were different until I'd driven the works van a few times, seemingly speeding most of the time!

 

Easily done with a low revving turbo diesel and a driver used to 60mph being 3,450rpm!

[SambaS]

Xant remember what bit of road but series of roundabouts on single carrigeway, then a hill and became 2 lanes

[alf892]

In 1997 with the first haulage firm I worked for I can remember the deep joy and genuine excitement when given a truck old enough to be limiter exempt, a B reg F10 with a 385 lump fitted. Granted, I was working around the m25 at the time so there was little opportunity to give it serious welly but it was good to know the potential was there.

When first started as an hgv fitter I worked at a little transport firm that had a broad cross section of trucks from an old K plate Foden bubble cab tractor unit........no power steering and lucky to reach 50 with its Gardiner 180 to the latest Volvo F10s on an S (suffix)plate.

 

Best were a couple of Volvo F88s.....lovely looking truck. One MSJ159P would easily top 80 with a bunker on the back......yet another couldn't top 55. Just different splitter/range change combos.

 

The F10s were ready for piston and liners about 3 years old.........relatively small engine quite heavily turboed, where an MAN we had with no turbo had plenty of lug and went on till the rad flap seized and it got cooked.

 

Good times!

[martc]

_{Is there a special limit for Astra "estate" Vans? Everyone I've dodged out of the way of has been doing at least 80. I suspect metallic silver ones are allowed to go even faster.}

[scruff]

A couple of hire vans I've driven recently have big stickers on them reminding of the speed limits. I am surprised all vans don't have them as factory or dealer fit.

 

 

In 1997 with the first haulage firm I worked for I can remember the deep joy and genuine excitement when given a truck old enough to be limiter exempt, a B reg F10 with a 385 lump fitted. Granted, I was working around the m25 at the time so there was little opportunity to give it serious welly but it was good to know the potential was there.

 

Until recently a mate of mine had a Atki Borderer for moving his steam engine. Once it got wound up, growling past supermarket wagons and seeing the look on the driver's faces was a real pleasure.

[cros]

I've been nicked twice in recent years, both times in a Morris Minor Traveller. 34 through Collyweston got me a day in Northampton learning not to do it again, then a few months later I made sure of a proper fine by getting it up to 68 on the A17. That's the trouble with these powerful motors.

[cros]

When first started as an hgv fitter I worked at a little transport firm that had a broad cross section of trucks from an old K plate Foden bubble cab tractor unit........no power steering and lucky to reach 50 with its Gardiner 180 to the latest Volvo F10s on an S (suffix)plate.

 

Best were a couple of Volvo F88s.....lovely looking truck. One MSJ159P would easily top 80 with a bunker on the back......yet another couldn't top 55. Just different splitter/range change combos.

 

The F10s were ready for piston and liners about 3 years old.........relatively small engine quite heavily turboed, where an MAN we had with no turbo had plenty of lug and went on till the rad flap seized and it got cooked.

 

Good times!

Were more lorries smashed up before they got governed to 56?

[alf892]

Not sure really.........probably some figures about somewhere.

That 88 was a bit dodgey at speed although I was only ever a passenger in that. The crash I remember was one the the drivers stuffing an f10 up the chuff of a milk float.

 

Driver was watching his mirrors for a gap and caught it a bit quickers than expected. Driver was about six foot six and wide........the police bought him back to our yard the back of a metro. Should of got a ticket for being over weight really.

Same driver cut the roof half off a car on a charley wells porta pub job......basically a porta cabin with those feet sticking out the side. Gap was a bit small and those feet are quite sharp at 40mph.......easily capable of slicing a and b posts on a parked vehicle

[ypsilandra]

This caught me out a couple of years back, doing 61 in a Master on the A41 near Newport. I assume fixed cameras don't distinguish between vehicles unlike the mobile vans, like the one that got me. Tbh I should've taken it upon myself to gen up on the Highway Code. My boss has since sent us van-shaped speed limit stickers for our windscreen. I'm with you on the Astra van knobs, I've had two close shaves with them this week, one being overtaken in to a blind corner and secondly going into a 40 zone. Can you imagine the outrage if 2 tonne, cart sprung, fat tyred pick-ups like Amoroks, Rangers and Navaras etc were under the same restrictions? I bet my Tranny can stop just as quick and handles better.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Was being tailgated on the motorway earlier by a DHL (I think?) sprinter. I was doing slightly* more than the limit, and I was going considerably faster than the inside lane, I.e. I was using the outside lane as an overtaking lane as intended.

 

When a suitable gap appeared I pulled in and the van shot past. Complete with 60mph sticker on the rear door.

 

Clearly he missed the memo

 

To be honest the speed doesn't bother me, it's the aggressive driving

[Hendry]

Can average speed (SPECS) cameras tell the difference between vans and cars? I took a LWB Citroen Relay from Glasgow to Perth (Broxden Services) a few weeks back at work, along the A9 with its new average speed cameras north of Dunblane and was doing between 60 and 70 the whole way (I too thought only stuff over 7.5 tonnes could do less than 70 on dual carriageways) now panicking after reading this my boss is going to present me with a speeding ticket.

[sheffcortinacentre]

I passed a scamera van on bridge over A64 in my 54 plt falcon ute at 70 couple of weeks ago not heard owt so presume this is classed as car? think logbook says two axle rigid body. once had a mk3 cortina base that said same thing.