Scamera Van with a Van Rental logo

[VetteG]

Coming down the M90 yesterday, just north of Kinross junction I noticed a white van stationary on a bridge, controling my speed with the usual care, I got closer and saw it had a logo from a van rental company on the side, not a scamera van thinks I, but as I'm about to go under the bridge I saw someone wearing a yellow safety jacket in the passenger seat, sure enough looking back, once through the bridge I saw it had a blacked out window on the other side. I thought these vans had to be clearly marked?

G

[asbo]

VetteG said:

Coming down the M90 yesterday, just north of Kinross junction I noticed a white van stationary on a bridge, controling my speed with the usual care, I got closer and saw it had a logo from a van rental company on the side, not a scamera van thinks I, but as I'm about to go under the bridge I saw someone wearing a yellow safety jacket in the passenger seat, sure enough looking back, once through the bridge I saw it had a blacked out window on the other side. I thought these vans had to be clearly marked?

G

They do.

Definately plod?

[VetteG]

Pretty certain, the window was one of those tinted plastic ones like they have on Scamera vans. Speaking to son Matt (Mattius) he was saying that they only need the rear of the van to have all the gubbins on it these days, but I'm with you, thinking that they needed the full signage.

G

[malcysmith]

Mum did work for a client a few years ago who fitted out transo vans, royal mail, BT with speed cameras. Very sneaky.

Malcy

[fluffnik]

These parasitic scum really need purged from society.

[EC2]

P&K do not use camera vans on the M90 (neither do Fife). Take a look:

http://www.scottishsafetycameras.com/CamFinderMap....

[S2red]

Wouldn't be one of the DVLA vans?

[paulqv]

The Scamera van site is inaccurate! They use Vans in various locations not shown on that map and on a regular basis too! They do require to use marked vans!

[fluffnik]

paulqv said:

They do require to use marked vans!

That needs changed.

I would favour mandatory marking with plumes of oily black smoke.

...I must mail my MSPs.

[agent006]

Sure it wasn't just a rented crew van?

[VetteG]

agent006 said:

Sure it wasn't just a rented crew van?

Crew vans have windows on both sides, this was a single square window in the middle of the big panel. Obviously the only way I can prove it would be if a little note comes through the post in the next couple of weeks!

G

[davidexige]

I saw them to, don't think it was a scamera van, however noticed they had positioned cameras above each lane, think it was probably more to do with checking if your car was taxed or not.

[Ug_lee]

davidexige said:

I saw them to, don't think it was a scamera van, however noticed they had positioned cameras above each lane, think it was probably more to do with checking if your car was taxed or not.

Is that what they are for?

I've seen these a couple of times on the M6/M74, 3 cameras clamped to a motorway bridge above each lane with the cables running to a van almost out of sight to the side.

[erdnase]

Ug_lee said:

I've seen these a couple of times on the M6/M74, 3 cameras clamped to a motorway bridge above each lane with the cables running to a van almost out of sight to the side.

I saw those on the M8 at the bridge passing Glasgow Airport, just where it changes from a 70 to a 40. To say I sh*t myself would be an understatement!

[fluffnik]

erdnase said:

I saw those on the M8 at the bridge passing Glasgow Airport, just where it changes from a 70 to a 40. To say I sh*t myself would be an understatement!

O/T: WTF is that ludicrous 40 limit all about?

[erdnase]

The lanes are pretty narrow, but not narrow enough to justify a 40, IMHO.

Not as if anyone actually sticks to it..

[breakdown]

having aston fitted with camera seeking missiles-this is just another revenue gathering system which has fec all to do with safe driving... sorry about the language but having done 30 years in the local fire service most of fatalities were caused by driver error. speed is not the main cause of rta's

[Well_Fans]

pretty sure I read somewhere that more people are killed stepping into the road while drunk leaving a pub than are killed by speed related accidents. maybe if they spent more of the money on roadside barriers outside pubs they'd reduce the number of road deaths..

[VetteG]

official stats are that only 6% of car accidents are speed related.

G

[KB_S1]

There was a law change recently regarding scamera van markings.
There was a thread elsewhere on this site a while back where someone got several good close photos of what at first appeared to be a grimy old builders van. On closer inspection it was indeed a parasitic shell.

The marked cars on the M8 have also been employing some underhand tactics where they will sit a fair distance behind a car they are following at dusk, with the sun behind and all lights turned off.

Pretty much invisible until they make their move.