Unmarked police HGV
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One came along side me on the m6 near Wigan, I clocked the plain white unit flying up on me id say easily 70+ then slowed next to me with an officer in the passenger seat with a camera looking into my cab. I was being a good boy as always so they shot off up to the next truck and did the same. There where 2 marked units following a bit behind him and a few miles later one of them had pulled a truck over.
Imagine pulling away from police doing 10 under the limit on a motorway!
I've seen these a few times on Police Interceptors and the likes but never seen one on the roads as far as I'm aware. Eating cereal while driving though.. Madness. So is smoking to me. Holding a stick that could burn your car to the ground is fine but changing a music track on a phone can be a fine and points?
I've seen these a few times on Police Interceptors and the likes but never seen one on the roads as far as I'm aware. Eating cereal while driving though.. Madness. So is smoking to me. Holding a stick that could burn your car to the ground is fine but changing a music track on a phone can be a fine and points?
I wish the police would find more important things to do with their time rather than this nonsense. You won't be able to do anything fun soon.
One of life's greatest pleasures is settling in at steady 70mph cruise as the toast pops up ready for a slathering of finest English salted butter. Then engaging station keeping with your knees as you tuck into two pork sausages, two rashers, egg, beans, lightly sautéed mushrooms - field... Obviously - single slice of black pudding, and a grilled tomato.
By the time you've finished, the kettle will have boiled and you're ready for a cup of lapsang souchong... From a pot obvs.
One of life's greatest pleasures is settling in at steady 70mph cruise as the toast pops up ready for a slathering of finest English salted butter. Then engaging station keeping with your knees as you tuck into two pork sausages, two rashers, egg, beans, lightly sautéed mushrooms - field... Obviously - single slice of black pudding, and a grilled tomato.
By the time you've finished, the kettle will have boiled and you're ready for a cup of lapsang souchong... From a pot obvs.
cobra kid said:
Do s
t, get caught. Tough.
While I was walking to work one day, I saw a woman driving her SUV while stopped in traffic. t, get caught. Tough.She had an iPad strapped to the top of her steering wheel using duct tape. The top of the iPad was covering half her vision of the windscreen in front.
It was secured well with duct tape as the iPad would turn with the steering wheel. I wish I had got a photo.
leef44 said:
cobra kid said:
Do st, get caught. Tough.
While I was walking to work one day, I saw a woman driving her SUV while stopped in traffic. t, get caught. Tough.She had an iPad strapped to the top of her steering wheel using duct tape. The top of the iPad was covering half her vision of the windscreen in front.
It was secured well with duct tape as the iPad would turn with the steering wheel. I wish I had got a photo.
Quite happy for Plod to catch legitimate law breakers doing silly things - stupid games, stupid prizes, etc.
However. Had recourse to drive a colleague's brand new snazzy Volkswagen last week, and I was confronted with this enormous tablet / control screen mounted in the middle of the dashboard. To amend the heater controls from a point of unfamiliarity took a good 30 seconds of navigating menus and sub menus to make it do what I wanted, and then during the journey there was an endless screed of messages and warnings popping up with regularity, most of which were entirely irrelevant to the journey at hand.
How can amending the music track on a phone, appropriately mounted in a cradle adjacent to the steering wheel be deemed worthy of six points and a fine, yet reaching further across to fiddle with a massive screen to find the heater controls be considered perfectly acceptable? Both are equally distracting in my humble opinion.
However. Had recourse to drive a colleague's brand new snazzy Volkswagen last week, and I was confronted with this enormous tablet / control screen mounted in the middle of the dashboard. To amend the heater controls from a point of unfamiliarity took a good 30 seconds of navigating menus and sub menus to make it do what I wanted, and then during the journey there was an endless screed of messages and warnings popping up with regularity, most of which were entirely irrelevant to the journey at hand.
How can amending the music track on a phone, appropriately mounted in a cradle adjacent to the steering wheel be deemed worthy of six points and a fine, yet reaching further across to fiddle with a massive screen to find the heater controls be considered perfectly acceptable? Both are equally distracting in my humble opinion.
Chainsaw Rebuild said:
Good work by the police! eating cereal whilst driving is ridiculous and she got off too lightly in my opinion. Also I am pro them using the top deck of buses catching those on their phones - it's a cheap way to do it too!
+1At the end of the day, it gains more awareness for these irresponsible idiots on the road.
normalbloke said:
They’ve been using the unmarked tractor units for several years now. No limiters on them either.
Now that is interesting as the law states they are not allowed above 55mph so if these are not speed limited and then do exceed said law would they not be facing a fine and points? The speed limit applies to all road users - unless on response. take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:
I wish the police would find more important things to do with their time rather than this nonsense. You won't be able to do anything fun soon.
One of life's greatest pleasures is settling in at steady 70mph cruise as the toast pops up ready for a slathering of finest English salted butter. Then engaging station keeping with your knees as you tuck into two pork sausages, two rashers, egg, beans, lightly sautéed mushrooms - field... Obviously - single slice of black pudding, and a grilled tomato.
By the time you've finished, the kettle will have boiled and you're ready for a cup of lapsang souchong... From a pot obvs.
WTF!! Are you for real? One of life's greatest pleasures is settling in at steady 70mph cruise as the toast pops up ready for a slathering of finest English salted butter. Then engaging station keeping with your knees as you tuck into two pork sausages, two rashers, egg, beans, lightly sautéed mushrooms - field... Obviously - single slice of black pudding, and a grilled tomato.
By the time you've finished, the kettle will have boiled and you're ready for a cup of lapsang souchong... From a pot obvs.
Grilled tomato has no place on that plate. All wet making the toast soggy without imparting any positive culinary benefit.
Welshbeef said:
normalbloke said:
They’ve been using the unmarked tractor units for several years now. No limiters on them either.
Now that is interesting as the law states they are not allowed above 55mph so if these are not speed limited and then do exceed said law would they not be facing a fine and points? The speed limit applies to all road users - unless on response. The exemption can be used where compliance with the speed limit would hinder the vehicle's use for a Police purpose.
Dapster said:
Love it! Does the HGV light up with concealed blues and come after you at 59 mph? I think high speed chases involving an HGV tractor unit is what we need - now THAT's an episode of Police, Camera, Action! I'd watch!
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