Ello, Ello, Ello! How clean is YOUR licence?

[autofive]

You can get out of mobile van/gatso tickets IF they are in scotland. If you get a demand for you to name the driver through , fill it in and send it back as late as possible but DONT SIGN IT. If its unsigned in Scotland they cant prosecute you for the speeding, but you have fulfilled your obligation to name the driver so they cant do you for that either.

 

They will send it back demanding it be signed and saying you will get done etc - but they can do sod all. They might send a plod to your door to get you to sign, but as long as you dont answer the door theyre screwed. 6 months after offence it times out and you cant be prosecuted.

 

Doesnt work in england sadly.

 

when you send it back to them its worth doing recorded delivery as when they realise they cant get you on the speeding its not unheard of for them to say they never recieved the form.

very interesting dave, thanks for the info

 

 

i used to drive the A75 at night frequently, and plod would use the 10 mile average test, park up, pull out behind you, follow you for about 8 miles, then slowly overtake and have a gander at driver and passengers. when i got pulled they always seemed reasonable, but i wasnt speeding.

[myglaren]

 

Currently got 3 outstanding for an offence which allegedly occurred in August LAST YEAR.... not due in court until September 22nd! Spoke to one of the then head men at Helen Street (friend of a friend of a friend!) who stated categorically that traffic wouldn't have done me as no offence was committed, so instead got the cack handed unmarked panda car fffkup which actually happened! Still, looking forward to the appearance...

Don't they have to inform you within 14 days or it is void?

[Inspector Morose]

Right, I'm not sure I haven't told you this before but I can assure you it's true.

Working at the ill starred Patrick collection around 2000, we took cars to charity events. One such was the make a wish foundation do at Silverstone. Now the organiser was a bit of a Dads Army fan so we always took along Jack Jones butchers van (the one that was used in the tv programme not the film) and it was my wonderful task to drive it there from Birmingham. Cable braked joy.

 

Cutting a long and tedious story short much fun was had by all mixing with the Ferrari and Lambo boys with our Delorean (RHD no less) and BMW Z1 and it was time for our return along the A14, wich was being reconstructed at the time.

Winding the van up to speed to keep up with the convoy was met with the portable speed camera flashing all three of us.

Weeks later came the fixed penalty - BUC 852 - 42 in a temporary speed limit of 30. It was worth paying for that one!

 

For those who don't know what it looks like -

[Tayne]

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[scooters]

open 2 3 out 2 3 bang 2 3 bang 2 3 band 2 3 in 2 3 close 2 3....

 

priceless!

[CreepingJesus]

Passed test, October 1990 - first and only speeding fine, February 2005. 50 in a 40 zone down the A1. I'd heard all the stuff about Gatso's not being able to flash trucks...not so. 3 points and £100 for me. Mind you, the guy before me got 1 point and £400 for doing 104 at the same place in his Audi.

The A1's bad for the Gatso's, the A68's worse, and the A90 from Dundee to Aberdeen gets the cruise set to 50, cos it's too much hassle to keep slowing for the scameras. Oh and Tayside coppers love using the hairdryers from the bridges over the road. They weren't best pleased when I parked up right behind their camera van (like 6" away) in the layby just south of Strathcathro services...

I got a nice letter from Fife coppers, politely asking me not to do 74 thro' Glenrothes ever again. Lucky for me, they were still calibrating the camera. I did it in a 1.3 Proton, does I get hi-fivez?

A mate of mine, who held only a bike license, was stopped for speeding in his van one night. No tax, MOT or insurance, pissed as the proverbial and floating an inch or two off the road due to his chemical intake. We even had a 'going away' party for him the night before his trial. Next night, he walks back into the pub a free man. How so? Well, the story goes, the copper pipes up in court "I stopped the defendant in his Volkswagen van...". No dice; it was a Mitsubishi. Case dismissed.

[cms206]

Hi five from me... 1300 PROTON POWAHHH!!!!!

[greengartside]

Just three points for me, in January this year in my little MR2 I had.

 

74 on a NSL road. Not too bad, but they were sneaky and hid their van around a bend so it was too late by the time you had noticed and braked.

 

I nearly got done again on the same stretch of road two weeks later. I was overtaking at the time and luckily a HGV blocked the camera's view of me as I tucked in behind another car.

 

I still think they use the money from the fines to stock up on M&S pies to feed their fat piggy faces.