They're obviously not quite so expert!
In addition to this even though a coach under 12m can do 70, it’s an offence to exceed the vehicle’s speed limiter which should be set to a maximum of 100kmh. If the tacho is set correctly exceeding the vehicles speed limiter will record an overspeed infringement on the tacho record.Buses, coaches and minibuses (more than 12 metres overall length) 60mph on motorways.
70mph for ones under 12m overall length though.Speed limits
A limit of 30 miles per hour or 48 kilometres per hour usually applies to all traffic on all roads with street lightingwww.gov.uk
Now this is interesting; I was, until fairly recently, convinced that the legal maximum was 100km/h, and it's this little nugget of information that has probably reinforced that belief.
Interesting, and since 100kmh is just over 62mph, to all intents and purposes all coaches of whatever length are limited to 60mph if they have a tacho.
Most of Our Geminis and Solo SRs are limited to 80kmh. A handful have tachos fitted for some routes over 50km so hypothetically could get some downhill speed up and exceed their limiter, they could still be under the 60mph dual carriageway or motorway limit, but infringing the set limiter speed. That would be recorded on the driver’s tacho card and visible For 28 days should it be interrogated by the authorities!
No speed limits in the UK are set in km/h. There is a difference between what speed a vehicle is limited to and what speed any physical speed limiting device may be set at. I often see lorries with a plate "This vehicle is limited to 62mph" (or similar). Whilst it's perhaps semantics, I see a vehicle's speed limit as that set by UK law (which will be in multiples of 10mph). Some vehicles may be governed to lower speeds by their limiters, but that does not mean they are limited to them.
Depends on how your speedo is calibrated. When i worked for Megabus someone once wrote a letter complaining that i had left him for dead on the M1. He even pointed that even though i went past him in the 50 zone the camers never went off. Car speedos are a few miles out.
It is EU legislation that specified the fitting of speed limiters to bus and lorries, and the speeds at which they must be set are defined in kph - primarily 90 or 100.
It records an infringement on your tacho, and if you are stopped by an enforcement check within 28 days it can be fined.
Indeed they often are. I have to add 10% to my 'desired' speed, so to cruise at 70 I have the needle pointing to 77. Conversely, if I was going at an indicated 70 my speed would be 63.
It is, and it's annoying. It's a Hyundai i10 (unmodified and on decent tyres) and a similar courtesy car had the same margin of error so it's built in. My Octavia with a digital speedo is very close to accurate.
Apologies. I had mixed up wires. It’s only an infringement within the EU. U.K. hasn’t adopted that infringement yet!
Yes I know that. What I am trying to get across is that this question is about speed limits for coaches on UK roads, which are quoted in miles per hour and in multiples of ten. It has nothing to do with the way the speed of those vehicles is physically governed by devices installed under EU legislation (which seems to be in kilometres per hour and so does not correspond exactly with any of the UK's limits).
Yes, I think we’ve established that the speed limit is 70mph. However, other legislation also limits the vast majority of current day coaches to 100kph.
Under 12m overall length is 70mph
I think "restricts" (as in makes it mandatory for a governing device to be fitted) would be a better description. The vehicle is unable to travel more than 62.5mph (roughly). But, should the restricting device fail to operate the driver could not be prosecuted for speeding providing he kept below the speed limit for that particular class of vehicle. This question is about the distinction between vehicles limited to either 70mph or 60mph.
Aye, that question has already been answered, so no need to keep repeating it, using slightly different language each time.
