Are Artics still limited to 56Mph?

[traffman]

Reason i ask is on more than one occasion whilst in my company van i have passed Artics doing well over the 56 mph , and struggled at times. One matched my limited speed of 67.

I just thought all of them are limited to 56 by law?

[traffman]

wildone63 said:

Just recently while in my works van which is limited to 68mph I tried to overtake a hgv tipper truck on a long straight stretch of road,there was nothing coming in the opposite direction for well over half a mile and it should have been a quick simple and safe overtake,but the wker of an hgv driver decided to put his foot down and I accelerated the van to max speed and just could not get past the truck and had to brake and abandon the overtake,as there was also an oncoming vehicle getting close.
If I had given the reg no. of the truck and told the police that I believed its speed limiter had been tampered with would they be likely to have gone and checked it out?

Well this sort of prompted my original question. My vans limited to 70. The gps reads it as a true speed of 67mph. As for knocking the van out of gear on a long decline it's not easy to increase your speed , i have tried!

Thanks for the informative answers , there seem's to be a number of variations on a number of Hgv's. I have seen most sat at 56mph. Just others have noticeably been nearing 70 , albeit on a gradient.