CEO banned from driving for 6 months

CEO banned from driving for 6 months

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BobSaunders

3,027 posts

154 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Zod said:
He's paying a lot on his mortgage for his income level.
Not really. Take home is around 8-9k a month. Then STIC and LTIC incentives. 3k a month is nothing.

sleepezy

1,779 posts

233 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Oops, he's not had that role for long and must have known it was coming when he went for the position. Opportunistic to think he'd walk away without a ban from that.

RichardJS

106 posts

75 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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I met someone once who said that he'd just received his 4th speeding ticket - and they were all from the same speed camera - near his home. What an idiot - no sympathy whatsoever!

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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BobSaunders said:
Zod said:
He's paying a lot on his mortgage for his income level.
Not really. Take home is around 8-9k a month. Then STIC and LTIC incentives. 3k a month is nothing.
£3k a month is not nothing. If there are school fees, then an income of £170k will quickly seem like not very much. No mention of incentives in earlier posts.

rxe

6,700 posts

102 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Sheepshanks said:
Not when you're already on 9 points, hopefully.

Sounds like he needs his eyes testing more than anything else.
This.

I pay scant regard to speed limits, but I'm fairly observant and don't drive like a dick. Last nicked 18 years ago, well overdue for getting nicked.

Is this bloke surprised by the location of speed cameras or something?

Valgar

850 posts

134 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Hardly big tickets items but what a fking moron for doing it when already have a proven track record of getting caught

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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BobSaunders said:
Zod said:
He's paying a lot on his mortgage for his income level.
Not really. Take home is around 8-9k a month. Then STIC and LTIC incentives. 3k a month is nothing.
A rough calc says he's got a mortgage around £600-800k, mortgaged at ~4 times base-salary, paying ~40% of his net salary and ~25% of gross salary -- so, he does (on public data) seem to be toward the top end of affordability measures for a man of his old age at the peak of career.

He's somewhat generously paid, also, for managing what is a fairly small company in one of the poorest and lowest-paid parts of England. Shopfloor employees there may well be asking some awkward questions this week...

R8Steve

4,150 posts

174 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Yipper said:
Shopfloor employees there may well be asking some awkward questions this week...
Why would they?

nickfrog

20,872 posts

216 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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QBee said:
I just save my love of speed for track days. It's what a 4.6 litre V8 turbo is for...whistle
Exactly ! I find road driving extremely boring by contrast! So much so that I probably more or less stick to the speed limit I guess...

captainaverage

596 posts

86 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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jith said:
What an absolute maniac! 35 MPH in a 30, twice. Lunatic!

62 in a 50! Nutter!

72 in a 60! Crucify him!

Where the hell are we going with this insane nonsense? Almost all of us will do these infringements on a regular basis. It means utterly nothing in terms of road safety. These dreadful so called safety partnerships need to be crucified.

J
Because because cars are bad and drivers are evil.

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Yipper said:
He's somewhat generously paid, also, for managing what is a fairly small company in one of the poorest and lowest-paid parts of England. Shopfloor employees there may well be asking some awkward questions this week...
Typical Yipper bks.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Zod said:
I may or may not do that kind of thing all the time. I've never had a single point in over 30 years of driving.
I have a mate like that - 30 yrs of being a sales rep so a lot of miles but knew how to stay out of trouble. He then got caught 3 times in 2 weeks and spend the next 3yrs in absolute terror, to the extent that he avoided driving if at all possible.

SmoothCriminal

5,047 posts

198 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Is it me or did he get off quite lightly with the fine aswell?

I thought they massively increased the amount you could be fined to 150% of your weekly take home or something.

Gareth79

7,628 posts

245 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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SmoothCriminal said:
Is it me or did he get off quite lightly with the fine aswell?

I thought they massively increased the amount you could be fined to 150% of your weekly take home or something.
Pretty sure it's based on the disposable income - ie. after certain expenditure, mortgage will definitely be in there.

PSRG

643 posts

125 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Gareth79 said:
Pretty sure it's based on the disposable income - ie. after certain expenditure, mortgage will definitely be in there.
Hypothetically speaking, if you thought a fine like this was coming might it not be sensible to drastically shorten the term of your mortgage, if you had one, to ramp up the monthly payments while your disposable income is assessed... whistle

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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SmoothCriminal said:
Is it me or did he get off quite lightly with the fine aswell?

I thought they massively increased the amount you could be fined to 150% of your weekly take home or something.
For Band C, big-amount-over-limit. Which none of these were. These could all have been tea-and-biccies if it wasn't for the minor matter of totting.

Wonder if he's been on a tea-and-biccies in the last three years, too? He does seem a little resistant to clue. Not sure the "But my daughter might have to give up her horsey for a bit to pay for the taxis" excuse was exactly calculated to garner sympathy.

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Strudul said:
Land Rover Discovery. Did you not read the article?
His defence should have been that he needed to keep his foot down while his car was working to complete his journey before it broke down again.

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Integroo said:
Zod said:
jith said:
What an absolute maniac! 35 MPH in a 30, twice. Lunatic!

62 in a 50! Nutter!

72 in a 60! Crucify him!

Where the hell are we going with this insane nonsense? Almost all of us will do these infringements on a regular basis. It means utterly nothing in terms of road safety. These dreadful so called safety partnerships need to be crucified.

J
I may or may not do that kind of thing all the time. I've never had a single point in over 30 years of driving.
Yeah, this is the point. If you are as inattentive to get caught three times, you think you'd make damn sure you wouldn't get caught a fourth.
Caught twice within 3 weeks in the same village by a Truvelo fixed camera.
Inattentive indeed. rolleyes
https://goo.gl/maps/vBbyYQmzT8C2
https://goo.gl/maps/ZdWqXCaR1R42
https://goo.gl/maps/bKEBQnvMXbn

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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captainaverage said:
jith said:
What an absolute maniac! 35 MPH in a 30, twice. Lunatic!

62 in a 50! Nutter!

72 in a 60! Crucify him!

Where the hell are we going with this insane nonsense? Almost all of us will do these infringements on a regular basis. It means utterly nothing in terms of road safety. These dreadful so called safety partnerships need to be crucified.

J
Because because cars are bad and drivers are evil.
No, but morons who get caught again and again and sleepwalk in to a ban are clearly pretty dumb and I’d much rather have them off the road than on.

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Zod said:
£3k a month is not nothing. If there are school fees, then an income of £170k will quickly seem like not very much. No mention of incentives in earlier posts.
Well if it's not nothing, maybe some avoidance may have been a good idea! laugh

But there do seem to be state supported institutions these days offering courses for the benefit of the over-funded but under-capable! laugh