HGV limiters

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Parrot of Doom

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Sunday 2nd September 2007
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Yesterday I had a relaxing drive back from work in Newcastle, doing 67mph on the cruise control. Coming west along the M62, a few miles east of Saddleworth, I approached a Morrison's HGV, 50 yards from it I moved into lane 2 to overtake and it started pulling away from me!

It must have been doing about 70-75mph in lane one, downhill.

Now I don't have any issue with this at'awl, but this changes my ideas of how HGV speed limiters work. So how do they work? How did this big beastie get so far past 56mph?