What speed do they let you go?

[swbarnett]

My dad once got his license taken away (Cage drive). Was caught doing 107kph in temp 30kph zone (road work).

I heard of a roading engineer that got done at 100kph while he was testing the road to see if it was ready to have the 30kph limit removed. The charge was reversed but not until after the set period of disqualification and confiscation.

[FJRider]

Um, the cops have radars, I think you need a device to detect them...

Airports have radar... and they don't have police problems... perhaps he does need radar...

[FJRider]

I heard of a roading engineer that got done at 100kph while he was testing the road to see if it was ready to have the 30kph limit removed. The charge was reversed but not until after the set period of disqualification and confiscation.

He was lucky then, any such "testing" requires road closure...

[quickbuck]

My dad once got his license taken away (Cage drive). Was caught doing 107kph in temp 30kph zone (road work).

Thats a wooping 87kph over the limit for just a single sign saying "temp 30kph".

And bloody rightly so!
Speeding through road work is one of most selfish acts a cage driver can do.

I have been hit in the throat with a stone by some tosser in a 4x4 doing about 100k (Can't be sure but it was enough to have two tails of shingle flying out from his wheels).
Could have killed myself and my passenger.

I have also turned around and given chase to some woman who did the same thing to me to give her both barrels, and reminded her she isn't the only road user.

Another reason for the 30 zones is because if vehicles travel too fast over the piece of road under repair, it cuts and ruts it up, and it can't be fixed properly.

Rant over, you hit a nerve.....

[roy.nz]

I have never been let off for any freaking ticket, all i get told is you know speed kills, which is bullshit, because it not the speed that kills its that sudden stop that does all the damage, and most wait all the cagers that never seem to see us, thats the easy and common excuse.

[Tank]

And bloody rightly so!
Speeding through road work is one of most selfish acts a cage driver can do.

Is it selfish for cage drivers only - are bike riders exempt?

[swbarnett]

He was lucky then, any such "testing" requires road closure...

Ths was the brother of a colleuge of my wife. Evidently I had the story slightly wrong. The road had already been declared fit and the 30kph sign was supposed to have already been removed.

[Howsie]

i dont get it i must of been real lucky but by MISTAKE! i was doing 110kph on a 50 kph road after school and my mates walking home saw a undercover police car parked along side of the road i was going down i saw it too and braked hard but for some reason the cop never chased me or got me with the radar gun.i know for sure that a cop was sitting in the vehicle and i know for sure if i was caught i would of never been able to ride again

The mighty GN at 110kmph, not a bad effort. Doing that speed around a school

right on the money there... if i know someone's watching me.. i usually fuck something.. especially if its a girl

Been there, done that! Tinted visors are handy Also done it quite well to

Got pulled over yesterday, doing a quickie off the lights...
without my L-plates on...
everyone watching...
heart was pounding...
turns his lights and siren off...
The police man asks how my day was...
I reply to him with "fine thanks"...

Then he asks if i want a motorcycle safety package. incl- fluoro vest, dvd, key chain and a gear guide... o_O

Could you get me one too next time?

But with the "modern high performance vehicles" provided to our Highway Patrol... it should be ok.... right... ???

if you can call the Commodore a "modern high performance vehicle"
and they also drive Omegas, they are hardly performance orientated too!

What they should have is something like a 4wd evo or subaru and really catch those buggers that need an arse whooping! You never know, we might end up paying less as there would be less crashed commodores, they are forever breaking down and crashing them. Like the one i heard about tonight!

[RT527]

When you get pulled over for anything, the police use this thing called an attitude test. If you are in a bad mood, and give the police shit/sacrasim etc chances are you'll end up with a ticket. If you are nice, apologise (in a nice way) you know, give the usual shit, "ill never speed again" blag blag blag you may get away.

Having said that,

if you speed was obviously in a large excess of the limit, chances are youll end up with a ticket/demerit points. So chances are you may have failed the attitude test.

Sound advice....I have mate who is CVIU (commercial vehicle investigation unit)
An one time he decided coming down the bombays that he`d pull a truck over just for a licence check and logbook check, Well this fella went absolutely nuts claiming his time was being wasted and that he was a right cock etc etc...in other words failed the attitude test...my mate being a good cunt tried again and gave him a 2nd chance( there was obviously more said than I have quoted but am trying to keep this short) , truck driver again failed the attitude test, so me mate said you can do this the easy way here or we can go down to the weigh bridge at drury and he`d do a complete safety check etc etc which would take quite a bit longer than a licence and log book check.......driver continued along previous lines so he was ordered to drury and weighed, and had a safety check etc. upside of it was he was over weight , somewhere in the 50-52 tonne mark(44 tonne is the limit)he had numerous other things wrong with vehicle and road user logbook etc so result
was big fines and Im talking in the thousands, + loss of licence and so on and so on......And my mate was gonna check his book and licence and prolly have let him go on if all he`d done was said ello officer nice day innit...heres my book and licence ...thankyou officer have a nice day and left !.


So yeah attitude is a given in all dealings with anybody you happen to talk too be they cops fire ambulance or general public.

[Road Guardian]

So yeah attitude is a given in all dealings with anybody you happen to talk too be they cops fire ambulance or general public.

[quickbuck]

Is it selfish for cage drivers only - are bike riders exempt?

Yeah, fair cop...
I will say it is a very selfish act for any road user to do! Cage, Truck, Bike.....
It is only the cage drivers that I have seen do it though. Almost all truckies realise it isn't worth it when your name and phone number (or your companies) is splashed all over the truck.

Bikers tend to take it very easy when the surface is loose.... from what I see...
Then I don't go Moto crossing on the CBR

[roy.nz]

In Arizona, we were sitting on 90 (mph) in a 75 zone and the Highway patrol guy barely bothered to move his head to look.........

In South Africa any road is like the autobahn, full tilt most of the way...

[EJK]

I got pulled over last night. He didn't give me a ticket or anything but he pulled me over just to embarass me from the drivers that I have over took...

Gah the shame...

[mstriumph]

In South Africa any road is like the autobahn, full tilt most of the way...

.... yerse - but you have to ride armed in case you come to a sudden stop [or at least, i did ...... cautious, that's moi]

[Plasmaglow]

I feel bad now with all you guys talking about 110-120

First ticket I ever had, even the cop had the humor to tell me I did a good job on it. He also let me off $400 for exceeding 70kmph on a learner license and $400 for not having any L plates

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