Tickets for slow drivers!

[Mushu]

The last sentence? This one?



Not sure of the relevence really?

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Check again, he didn't quote that sentence.

I hope you're not holding up traffic surfing the internets while you ride around on your Virago.

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[BoristheBiter]

I failed my class 5 for going "off road" when I drove on the shoulder to let a line of cars pass. I was told the legal definition of a road was between the centre line and the white line marked on the left of the road and I must stay between these lines. By crossing the line on the left I was invalidating the company's insurance and putting the truck in danger of rolling over if the shoulder crumbled. When I mentioned the cars I was holding up the driving instructor said "they can wait, thats what passing lanes were designed for".

And that there is the problem I see with so many on the road (not just trucks). fuck everyone else because I'm fine.

That might be a good idea if we had passing lanes, but they are so few and far between and made even worse if it is on the B roads.

I'll stick to my first idea and just ban all trucks between 6am and 11pm, well at least from useing transit lanes.

[BoristheBiter]

Check again, he didn't quote that sentence.

No but that's not what you said and V is right that is the last sentence in your post.



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[Bonez]

Look Mum, the kiddies don't want to share

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[Bonez]

The guy who hoons past on the open road at great velocity is my friend. The faster the better.

There will be a patrol car somewhere ahead - fetchemup boy, good dog.

As for the limit issue - if on a fine day you cvant do the speed limit then you have to have a look at yourself.
If its the vehicle then cool, pull left when you can.

If its ability then sort it out - get training.

If it asshole power syndrome then I hope your crankshaft snaps. In a remote rainy area.
with the workshop is closed and the towie sick.

You have mates?

As for remote breakdowns I've found cockies more than happy to help out. Even got towed to a pub once. Interesting experience having your bike towed by a 4 be 4 at 30-40kph. FWIW 70% of the riding I do is on "remote" roads. They're lot more interesting. a lot less and everybody seems to It's very rare I see a Fuzzy Wuzzy. They tend to hang out where it's easy pickings. You should try them out.

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[Mushu]

No but that's not what you said and V is right that is the last sentence in your post.

Sorry, my fault for assuming people would know the difference between the content of a post and a sig.

I'll stick to my first idea and just ban all trucks between 6am and 11pm,

This is quite possibly the stupidest idea I've read on Kb to date.

So after misreading my post and asking if I wanted to ban trucks you want to effectively ban trucks. Do you feel like freight should be more expensive? Imagine what that would do to the price of... well, everything.

Not to mention the fact that every truck in the country would be on the road outside those hours to try and make up for lost time, and more drivers missing their rest breaks, it would be anarchy out there every night.

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[Str8 Jacket]

Why can't we all just get along?

[george formby]

Why can't we all just get along?

No fun in that..

I think the old term for the targeted drivers is Road Hogs, people holding up the progress of traffic when they have safe opportunities to allow following vehicles to pass. Loads of em round here, that's why I have a fridge & microwave in the van, for snacks.

Followed a steam traction engine for 15 mins last Saturday, on it's way to the puff & pull carnival, my speedo needle said 0 kmh. Not a skerrick of frustration or angst did I feel. Bizarrely, the driver of the wee, yellow Suzuki swift which I had overtaken earlier because they could not drive faster than 60 kmh went nuts trying to get past & nearly had a head on at one point in his desperation to hold up more traffic & steam traction engines. Just had to be at the front I guess.

Trucks? I like em. Rarely have I come across a truck driven by a muppet road hog. They are not that slow in the scheme of things either. I'm not going to go mad to get past one so I can travel 5 kmh faster.

[McFatty1000]

The only real issues I've had with trucks have been when they get held up by someone crawling around corners and up hills which slows the truck down and ruins its momentum. So not the trucks fault anyway. Just takes so much longer for them to get up to speed.

Also, always been let past when possible or reasonable.

[ducatilover]

You're all a bunch of inconsiderate twats, really.

[SPman]

On the blogs this morning.......

Revenue usurps safety

Every time we have a holiday weekend the police tell us that "speed kills" and they start their 4Km rigid enforcement of speed limits.
Despite the "speed blitzes" and "drink driving blitzes", people continue to die with monotonous regularity on our roads whenever we have a long weekend or other holiday break.
Now regular readers will recall that quite some time ago, I wrote a column remarking at the results of a police blitz on "slow drivers".
I forget the exact date but it was a long-weekend (Labour day or maybe Easter) and despite previous years' holiday road tolls bing the usual high figure -- the one time they announced a focus on pinging inconsiderate slow drivers, the result was miraculous.
Instead of the usual long list of fatalities, the weekend was almost without tragedy.
Since then we've not seen another attempt to focus on slow drivers and the holiday weekend tolls have been similarly high -- until this weekend just past.
Once again, in a long-overdue move, police announced that they'd be targeting slow drivers and once again -- the results were stunning.
This year's Queens Birthday weekend road toll was a big fat ZERO.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to join the dots here does it?
Inconsiderate slow drivers cause road accidents and they must always be a priority focus for enforcement activities!
When regular, sane, cautious people are forced to travel in convoy behind some idiot in a camper-van who consistently crawls along at 65-70Km/H on the open road and obstructs that traffic from passing by accelerating to 100Km/H at every passing opportunity -- those people sometimes snap. Frustration causes them to take unreasonable risks and that pushes the chances of a fatal road accident through the roof.
So now that the link between targeting these inconsiderate slow drivers and a low road toll has most certainly been established, do you think that the police focus will change from those doing 110Km/H on the open highway to those doing 70Km/H?
Of course it won't.
Just look at the logistics...
A single van or car with a speed camera can ping hundreds of "speedsters" every hour and in the process, create some very serious revenues.
By comparison, locating, pulling over and ticketing an inconsiderate slow driver requires a whole lot more work -- for a whole lot less revenue.
In an era where "quotas" are the currency of faux road safety, police can't afford the luxury of actually making our roads safer. They have an obligation to their political masters to keep the coin flooding in -- hence the focus on "easy" enforcement alternatives such as speed cameras/lasers and "checkpoints" where they can ping you for expired rego, failure to carry your license, etc, etc.
Sadly I note that today, no credit is being given to the effect that the blitz on slow drivers might have had on this record-low toll. Instead, they're claiming that it was their strict enforcement of speed limits and focus on drink-driving that saved the day.
Sigh!

[scumdog]

On the blogs this morning.......

What a lot of self-opinionated clap-trap and rhetoric

[Mushu]

What a lot of self-opinionated clap-trap and rhetoric

What would you, as a police officer, claim was the cause of last weekends zero road toll.

How is it any different than claiming that a 4kmh speed restriction makes any difference.

The only thing that makes a difference is people tend to stay home rather than make unnecessary trips on these types of weekends because the chances of running into the police is far higher than usual. My brother in law wanted to ride to Timaru on Sunday because he'd never been, I decided against it because of the amount of cops and I don't trust my speedo to 4% accuracy. But we will probably go in the next couple of weeks and if one of us dies in an accident the fact that it didn't happen last weekend is only going to be a comfort to the police.

All the factors play a minor role in the road toll. 4kmh restriction keeps people at home, more cops keep some drunks off the road, policing slow drivers keeps road rage at a minimum but the biggest contributer to last weekends road toll was blind luck, to claim it was anything else is bullshit.

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[scumdog]

What would you, as a police officer, claim was the cause of last weekends zero road toll.

How is it any different than claiming that a 4kmh speed restriction makes any difference.

The only thing that makes a difference is people tend to stay home rather than make unnecessary trips on these types of weekends because the chances of running into the police is far higher than usual. My brother in law wanted to ride to Timaru on Sunday because he'd never been, I decided against it because of the amount of cops and I don't trust my speedo to 4% accuracy. But we will probably go in the next couple of weeks and if one of us dies in an accident the fact that it didn't happen last weekend is only going to be a comfort to the police.

All the factors play a minor role in the road toll. 4kmh restriction keeps people at home, more cops keep some drunks off the road, policing slow drivers keeps road rage at a minimum but the biggest contributer to last weekends road toll was blind luck, to claim it was anything else is bullshit.

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First off :The above is almost the same value clap-trap. (assuming it's not a troll - which I hope it is...)

Anyhoo, in case it is NOT a troll..

So why should so many people stay at home 'because the chances of running into the police is far higher than usual'. - were these people all pissed, speeding, disqualified or driving unreg'd cars with no WOF and on bald tyres or something???

And I have yet to see claims the '4kmh' tolerance itself made any definable difference and I have yet to hear of ANYBODY staying at home because of it.

Oh and what a pathetic excuse for not going to Timaru...sheesh.

Yes, as you suggest, I guess luck probably DID have a fair bit to do with the zero toll - as did the 4kmh thing, more cops out there safer cars, etc etc.

[Drew]

I put most of the nil road toll for the weekend, down to the number of cops out there.

Tauranga to Wellington we lost count of how many five Oh we saw yesterday. Well over twenty cars. Anyone who wanted to do something silly would have changed their mind pretty fuckin quick methinks.

I think it's a cunt of a way to keep drivers safe though, it's gotta suck to be a filthy snake at the best of times. Never getting a long weekend off as well would get less than tolerable mighty fuckin fast.