tips on keeping my license

[madboy]

Okay, my opinion.

Fixed Speed Cameras - They run off sensors IN the road. No radar. They shoot whichever direction, it just depends where the sensors in the road are. Some roads only have sensors one way, others have both. BUT I very firmly believe that fixed cameras DO NOT pick up bikes. Disagree if you like but I have NEVER EVER EVER had a ticket on the bike, and I pass at least two DAILY for the last couple of years, and those who know me know that I will be speeding most of the time.

Van mounted cameras - Mitsi L300 vans usually. Radar. Shoot both directions. But they can't take a picture when the armco median barriers are in the way can they?! These I believe DO pick up bikes. But no front plate takes care of 50% of them.

But camera fines, at the time of writing, DO NOT give demerit points.

Speed tolerance - is generally 10k over the posted limit. Cameras I think are set rigidly at this. Cops supposedly have no discretion allowed beyond this, but some are more sensible than others. Highway Patrol in general are pretty anal.

Exceeding the limit by 50k or more will cost you your license... if you get caught. Instant 28 days, on the roadside. Plus a court summons for a further rodgering. There is talk that this will be reduced to 40k soon (January was it?) but as of today it's 50k.

The cops drive Commodores usually, sometimes Falcons. Sometimes the Commodore S, which is a slightly quicker version. Yes, they do run muftis. Watched for RT aerials on the boot, lights on the parcel shelf, and staunch c**ts with moustaches driving - no offense to the female ones. But they're all slower than a decent sportsbike, and as far as I am aware only Auckland has a helicopter.

[cowpoos]

Okay, my opinion.

Fixed Speed Cameras - They run off sensors IN the road. No radar. They shoot whichever direction, it just depends where the sensors in the road are. Some roads only have sensors one way, others have both. BUT I very firmly believe that fixed cameras DO NOT pick up bikes. Disagree if you like but I have NEVER EVER EVER had a ticket on the bike, and I pass at least two DAILY for the last couple of years, and those who know me know that I will be speeding most of the time.

Van mounted cameras - Mitsi L300 vans usually. Radar. Shoot both directions. But they can't take a picture when the armco median barriers are in the way can they?! These I believe DO pick up bikes. But no front plate takes care of 50% of them.

But camera fines, at the time of writing, DO NOT give demerit points.

Speed tolerance - is generally 10k over the posted limit. Cameras I think are set rigidly at this. Cops supposedly have no discretion allowed beyond this, but some are more sensible than others. Highway Patrol in general are pretty anal.

Exceeding the limit by 50k or more will cost you your license... if you get caught. Instant 28 days, on the roadside. Plus a court summons for a further rodgering. There is talk that this will be reduced to 40k soon (January was it?) but as of today it's 50k.

The cops drive Commodores usually, sometimes Falcons. Sometimes the Commodore S, which is a slightly quicker version. Yes, they do run muftis. Watched for RT aerials on the boot, lights on the parcel shelf, and staunch c**ts with moustaches driving - no offense to the female ones. But they're all slower than a decent sportsbike, and as far as I am aware only Auckland has a helicopter.

I believe the reason your not getting tickets is the same reason you sit at the lights waiting for them to change for ever...it has some thing to do with you vehicle giving off a magnetic field....and the stips in the road where fixed speed cameras sit sence a magnetic field and its regestered twice to get a speed reading....I might be wrong and I'm sure someone will corect me if I am...

[slopster]

[QUOTE=spudchucka]No. If you have a New Zealand drivers licence and an overseas one your NZ licence will incur points

And if you cancelled your NZ licence? Just hypothetically of course

[thehollowmen]

Good luck
those that avoid the fines well .. they'll have the best advice.

I just haven't been too crazy so haven't got a ticket yet... one of you will have to show me how ;-)

[madboy]

I believe the reason your not getting tickets is the same reason you sit at the lights waiting for them to change for ever...it has some thing to do with you vehicle giving off a magnetic field....and the stips in the road where fixed speed cameras sit sence a magnetic field and its regestered twice to get a speed reading....I might be wrong and I'm sure someone will corect me if I am...

Someone on here did explain it once, and it kinda made sense. I think it was something along those lines, magnetic or something. It definitely wasn't weight. But interestingly my bike registers at lights, but just not cameras. And believe me - I've bloody tried a few times!

[Highlander]

[QUOTE=slopster]

No. If you have a New Zealand drivers licence and an overseas one your NZ licence will incur points

And if you cancelled your NZ licence? Just hypothetically of course

What if it was cancelled for you?