[YWCS]

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[jaykie]

Isnt 60 on a dual carriageway the law anyway.

[russ_clark]

its only 60 speed limit on single carriageway
found that out some years ago
cost me 3 points b$%STARDS

[tomy jackson]

yes

[Alex Gardiner]

There are only a very few commercial vehicles that are exempt from the lower commercial speed limits and these include the fiesta van, corsa van and that is about it.

All other commercial vehicles including double cab pick-ups and window vans are subject to the following limits:

Single Carriage Way 50mph
Dual Carriage Way 60mph
Motorway 70mph

[jaykie]

no, its 70

Its 60 its only 70 on Motorway

[jaykie]

Sorry just checked

[Oakley Windows]

 

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=26804.0

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=26322.0

[Oakley Windows]

Oh, I didnt know either until those posts appeared, makes you think though, speeding and not knowing it......

[AuRavelling79]

There are only a very few commercial vehicles that are exempt from the lower commercial speed limits and these include the fiesta van, corsa van and that is about it.

All other commercial vehicles including double cab pick-ups and window vans are subject to the following limits:

Single Carriage Way 50mph
Dual Carriage Way 60mph
Motorway 70mph

I believe escort vans and my doblo is too - car type shell (as per taxi and wheelchair version) and gvw 2000kg or under...

[outdoor restore]

Talking to a Customer today who works for the freight transport association and he told me that pickups like my navara are subject to certain speed restrictions (60 on dual carriageways for one)

He said most people including the police are unaware of this and he gave me a handbook that explains the details and the applicable laws.

It looks like he was right.

Has anyone else heard this?

Thanks for this, I've had my navara nearly 2 years and hadn't realised

Neil

[marc]

i try and keep my navara down to about 90 to 95 on motor ways lol heavy right foot but it does have a bit more in it well quite a bit more in fact     marc

[Paul Coleman]

I only found this out after driving my Trafic for a few months.  I hadn't needed to know with previous vans as they were light and car derived.  Looks like 2 tonnes is the cutoff point.  It surprised me at the time because I had always believed that the only cutoff point was 7.5 tonnes.  Hadn't realised there was a lower one too.  So I'm only allowed to do 70 on motorways I think.  Daft thing is that there are odd stretches of motorway that have 2 lanes and there is an A road near me that has 3.

[Alex Wingrove]

and there is an A road near me that has 3.

and that means that we can only go 60 down there know, so the hill makes it difficult to keep to 60

[Paul Coleman]

and there is an A road near me that has 3.

and that means that we can only go 60 down there know, so the hill makes it difficult to keep to 60

Mind you, if I've got a load of water on board, I don't think I would want to do more than 60 down there anyway (I assume you mean Handcross Hill).  The funny thing is that coming the other way, for a short stretch there is an general uphill limit of 55mph anyway.  I'm surprised it's only limited like that one way because it's the same bend whichever way you're going.

[Alex Wingrove]

i know and you would think that going down hill was more treacherous that going up