Rice Rocketeer
prob old news but i just found out that trucks can now do 90KmH (well lets face it 100KmH)!!!
what happened to "speed kills"?
seems like a call from left field from a govt who's starting to believe thier own propaganda!
so wheres the follow on?? why cant we ride at 110 or 120 (legally)
yeah... sorry bro, i thought that ment miles 'n hour.
Forum whore
Couple that with Alan Dick's claim that the new roadside brake test gear fails 80% of artics and B trains and you have a mammoth scandal.Originally Posted by JohnBoy
The LTSA is replacing the testing station gear to meet the same standard as the roadside gear, so it will be interestign to see what kind of BS Tony Friedlander comes up with to excuse the trucking industry and the LTSA from being criminally incompetent.
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oooooooooooo lala
let see braking ability momentum .......... umm ummm........................... so bikes can legally do what 140 on the roads now. After that whole ad about 5km fater there and look you crsh into a truck. And now they are putting 10km/h on a very heavy vehicle. Hmmmmmm i think there are some smart cookies in the LTSA aye
Deus ex ukulele
I also like the LTSA's line that trucks are seldom caught speeding...
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You got it in one Hitcher - they don't get caught cos they all let each other know where the cops are at. I got this straight from the horses mouth when I was working in a gas station years ago. When I asked a local cop about speeding trucks, he said they were a myth.....bloody fool.
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Forum whore
When a mate was running in his bike at 100kph we got passed by a truck and trailer unit....
I tell you! That was VERY scary!!
Trucks cruise at 100kph all the time. And try and pass one doing 90 when it's raining? Good luck!
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Loud and Uncouth
Actually shag, they are meant to be pinged for 95, i.e. they only get 5km leeway as opposed to bikes/cars with 10 km leeway.
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Easy Biker
Perhaps Spud can enlighten me otherwise but the last time I got pulled up I was driving with the bike on the trailer at 4.30am down Mana Esplanade (was when I was hauling the WR to Opoutama) and the three trucks that were ahead of me at Paremata roundabout disappeared into the distance heading North.
See this thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...5943#post55943
The cop pulled me up about Shell Mana and says I was doing 70 in the 50. Well hell then the trucks would have been doing 80 - all big B Trains as I saw them side on as I approached the roundabout. He never touched the trucks. I asked him about the trucks but he said something like "big rigs don't go that fast here". I could see it was no point arguing, shut my mouth and got no ticket.
Seems to me though the trucks are invisible to the cops - follow them and you get pulled up.
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Merv
parting of the sensory
Maybe they're just going easy on them, being professional drivers and all that?
But yeah, it seems that they can speed with impunity, doesn't it?
Reminds me of the time I was driving between Waiotapu and Rotorua, and ahead of me I saw a Kenworth rig with a full load of logs, pull out and pass everything on 10-Mile Hill. Now that's grunt...
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Salted Pork
I don't work on the highway so can't comment on what happens out there but speeding truckies in my town get no sympathy from me any time of the day or night.
Salted Pork
Heaps of the so called professional drivers are nothing more than outright road criminals (not all). Taxi drivers, courier drivers, truckies, security guards, they all seem to think at times that they own the road and are above the law. As far as I'm concerned they should receive the firmest enforcement of all because they are SUPPOSED to be professional drivers. Security guards are some of the worst, one was found recently doing 140 in a 50 because he was responding to an alarm activation that was 45 minutes old - f**ken halfwit!!
Mobile Oil Stain
Ummm Errrrrr well,How much is a radar detector and how much is a uniden VHF??
My radio cost me $180.
The only speeding ticket I ever got (In OZ) the first thing the cop said was
"Got ya' radio turned off mate"
Anyway my current wheels are Governed to 90km,My choise.
Forum whore
Now here is the second part to this equation or is it the answer.
The LTSA are considering reducing the five and half hour driving time before having to take a half hour break down to five hours. This is to reduce driver fatigue. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure why the speed limit for trucks has been upped 10k's. Maths are not my forte but if anyone wants to do some sums on this I'll wager a bottle of my favourite ale for myself that the 10k increase makes up for the half hour reduction in drive time.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Probably more for the Truckies in Auckland who don't get to do 90Km per hour but can spend 5 hours just crossing town.
Dis Tent Rider
Saw a HP ute stop an articulated unit between Chch and Kaikoura earlier this year. Trucks regularly do the 98-103 speed limit. I guess that they are professional drivers and can drive safely.
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