56? That seems a bit specific, unless that's for on the continent and has been converted from a round number in kph.
In the UK as far as I know, for anything over 7.5 tons it's supposedly 40mph on a single-carriageway road (although no-one seems to adhere to or inforce that) and 60mph on a dual-carriageway road.
What are the '80','90','100' badges you get on the back of european trucks? I've often seen them and wondered what they are - I'm guessing it has something to do with being licenced to travel at a certain speed.
Well can't remember personally what the speed limits for trucks are here, but most of them have limiters.
My dad often gets pissed off at how some people overtake on a single-carriageway and then brake straight away imagining that 30 ton (with load) lorry will have the same braking distance as the car lol
As Electric Eye posted, a short wheel base rigid truck designed to carry builders skips around town. It was never really designed to do more than 30 mph, with very short gearing and a smooth but gutless naturally aspirated straight 6 it was a pretty bad choice for the previous owner to convert to a race car transporter.
By law the driver is responsible for his load, if he doesn't at least visually check that his load his safe then he should be shot.
The only 55mph that I know of in the US is in the state of California. Most of the rest of the southwest is 75mph on the interstate. For trucks and cars. Obviously there are places even on the interstate when you get near towns that the speed drops down but for the most part it's 75mph.
Thanks, last I heard it was 70%, seems the cars are 3% less at fault than they used to be. Still doesn't change the fact that statistics say that people driving cars are more dangerous than semis.
Lorries with limiters are limited to 56 mph (90 km/h). I believe anything over 7.5 tons which doesn't have a limiter has a 60 mph limit on dual carriageways and motorways, rather frighteningly this includes full sized artics that are used for non-commercial transport.
Yea, road users can be real ****ing ignorant. People who undertake trucks are the interesting individuals, happened right infront of my eyes coming out of Stoke, and a '91 Civic decided to cut through all the traffic, there was even a cyclist in the midst of the Truck and Car, god knows how he survived......
My dad did various checks but his load was fibreglass so they were flying around on the M6, he had to strap the whole load himself by the road side and whilst I was in the cab, watching my mother recover the fibreglass and destroying her hands on it lol my dad fell down from the trailer and his back hasn't recovered since. At the end of the day it's the drivers responsibility, but what I'm saying is that the driver can't do it all on his own, you need at least two people to keep a ratchet strap taught to be able to wind it up. It's judgement. Think of it like this. I am washing dishes for you, you are my employer, I wash some, but hide the others somewhere else, your supervisor finds them, and then sacks YOU for it. Overall it's your responsibility, but would you have ever known that I'd hidden some of the dishes? No, sadly, if trucks are involved it involves peoples lives. Truck drivers deserve a hell of a lot more respect than they get. They go through nightmares on the road, seeing big accidents, being involved in them, where a car gets crushed and the truck driver is not to blame, but still he has nightmares and the deaths of people haunt him for the rest of his life. Truck drivers really do not get enough respect. Their ettiquette on the road is generally THE best. They have a great judgement of what's going to happen before it does. They can tell a type of driver by what they do and react before it happens. Sometimes obviously there are complete idiots who just seem to ignore that there are even other cars on the road, like this idiots who sit in the middle lane and stab their brakes instead of lifting off the throttle to reduce their speed back to the speed limit.... I really hate the UK for these type of drivers. I despise them. I wish they all died. Get to the left lane for **** sake.
I'd like to think that because truckers drive 150,000 miles a year that makes them better drivers. But the truth is that there are a lot of bad ones too. It only takes a few hundred bad ones to make the few million look bad. That's just the way it is with everything. Unfortunately when a truck driver does screw up its usually far more devastating. A guy can fall asleep and run his minivan off the road and nobody cares. A truck driver does it and everybody becomes a critic.
This isn't unique to anywhere. There's terrible drivers everywhere. I've never driven in the UK so I can't compare, but if they are anything like they are here then I feel for you, I really do.
I just don't understand why some road users apply brakes when they are either 100m behind another car, or they do it to stay at the speedlimit... And people who overtake when they don't need to.. People who stay in the wrong lane, always pull to the outside if you're not overtaking, it's not hard to understand, at least not to me..
The laws vary from 65 to 70 mph I think, so that's 105 to 112 km/h. It's more, but it's not that much more tbh. Of course being expected to drive that much over the speed limit is a different matter.
Well someone rounded the 67% to 70% I believe. And considering that most trucks stay on the road all day long, while car drivers only couple hours and the number is still 70% that's quite decent!
Well, you overtake em with the beeping lorry! Hah... all you need is a long stretch of straight road and no traffic coming towards you! (very unlikely here, but possible .
Going to read the rest of posts later tonight I think. Au revoir guys.
An annoying lorry thing: When you get lorry drivers overtaking each other on a dual-carriageway, one doing 0.1mph faster than the other so they take 10 minutes to pass each other.
Normally that's down to one running empty or one drafting another. Normally the driver on the left would slow down a little to let the overtaking truck in
I don't think I have ever seen a truck driver either lifting off to let another past and most seem hell bent on getting where they're going 5 minutes faster rather than sitting in the slipstream of a slightly slower lorry, which would save haulage companies a huge amount of money.
I was so lucky that I could sit in a few years old Scania few months ago. That machine was freaking fast!! (without trailer of course) And the sound of the turbo is teh seks. It was a top class, very comfortable one, with it's own TV and a little fridge it it.
At first sight I said, ok ok, it's nice, but heavy as hell, so it can't be so fast... Hell not!
stupid homework.
It was a top class, very comfortable one, with it's own TV and a little fridge it it.