Went past one of the above today and noticed the sticker on the back advising the rest of us that its limited to 70...
Set me wondering why...
If it was to increase mpg then perhaps someone should tell them that limiting it to 70 won't do a lot of good as there aren't many places that you can do 70 anyhow the sort of driving they do! More useful would be teaching their drivers how to drive economically rather than just putting a speed limiter on it...
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Surely 70mph in a van is illegal?
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It was one of those "astra" sized things, I thought they were the same as cars?
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Yes, I think car-based vans have the same speed limits as cars. I thought you meant a transit-type, which would have been odd.
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Do they have those 2nd World War type vehicles with a huge bag of gas on the roof, if not, why not?
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It's so other autobahn drivers are aware it's the van's maximum permitted speed.
Could be to ensure that the driver doesn't run out of gas by driving too fast...:-)
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It is show that a limiter has been fitted, this is starting to become more popular with fleet vehicles......
www.businesscar.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=1828
If you are a company selling health and safety twaddle these days, the pen pushers will come.
Edited by Hamsafar on 03/05/2008 at 22:14
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A few extracts from the link item
"There?s also the savings stemming from reduced tyre and engine wear, not to mention the reduced driver wear."
Ah yes - less jobs done in a day due to extended transit time between jobs :-)l
For Colin Marriott at British Gas, limiting his vans to 70mph would play another important role. ?We did it primarily for driver safety
Some voices within the van industry are fully expecting a time when all commercial vehicles, from Vauxhall Corsa vans to pickups, are speed-limited on orders from the EU.
A reply to the link item
"If companies like BT & British Gas etc were really bothered about safety & the enviroment they would fit speed limiters to managers cars and not just to vans."
What an unkind remark :-)
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My pal works for BG and has a Transit connect, probably the 200L model that is 75PS. It is limited to 70.
He hates it, but finds that if his right foot gets tired on the accelerator, he can use his left foot, as he knows he wont go any faster than 70...........
The connect is classed the same as a full size transit for speed limits, so
SC is 50 (cars 60)
DC is 60 (cars 70)
motorways 70.
Incidently, I think the limiter is just a mod to the ECU which can easily be taken off by a dealer or maybe 3rd party...........
Steve
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Does the UK government offer any incentives to fit speed limiters? In Australia, where each state has its own road rules, vehicles have to be re-registered and taxed [ and drivers pass at least the theory driving test ] within a certain time when moving inter-state. The federal gov't offered the transport companies and long-haul coach companies a trade in that, if they would fit 100 km/hr limiters, they could have federal registration to allow them and their drivers to go anywhere for any length of time, plus a reduction in road tax. It seemed to get taken up quite well.
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I thought that might be the case, but the vehicles involved I doubt do much work where they are doing a steady 70mph, surely most of their work is in built up areas or roads where 70+ is dream-land - so as an "environmental" fitting its just about a waste of time - van drivers' heavy right feet are much more responsible for wasted fuel than driving over 70 I suspect!
Teaching them to drive economically and then giving them fuel targets would be much more useful than a limiter and would have far better results... I can understand a limiter on an HGV or coach, but on a BG repair van? Waste of time!
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they have started to fit them them on bt vans now.bit of a concern if you get in a situation where you need to accelerate then you hit the limiter.we do travel on the motorways before anyone says we should not be doing 70.
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...bit of a concern if you get in a situation where you need to accelerate then you hit the limiter.
>>We do travel on the motorways before anyone says we should not be doing 70.
So extra care IF you still decide to overtake LH drive trucks.:-(
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The old LDVs our firm had, that I drove for a while, had a self regulating way of keeping the speed well below 70. They were bad enough at 55 let alone any faster.
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I drove a Petrol Transit for a very large UK company and limiting speed makes no difference to fuel consumption - we used Shell garages to fill up and when they started offering tokens I drove in highest gear I could with foot to floor -needless to say my consumption figures were not good - but I did get a lot of tokens to get a 1/32 scale model of a Dodge Viper- plus tool box's - torch's etc
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