'Speeding' Lorries

[hondansx]

In my driving career of 14 years, i've only seen two lorries clearly going well above their speed limit. I either assumed this was pretty difficult to do because of a speed limiter, or that the consquences must be very serious for drivers if their tachograph revealed they were speeding whilst on the job...?

So the second time i witnessed it was night, travelling home on the A20. I edged past a big Scania lorry that was decorated with blazing led lights around it's skirting, with an even brighter LED Scania logo in the driver's cab. It was more of a surprise that i was only edging past it doing 75mph...

The A20 goes into a 50mph zone at Sidcup and i was even surprised to see the lorry catching up with me as i slowed (i was still doing about 60 leptons...) and - as the road opened up to 3 lanes - he was even using the outside overtaking lane (another thing i thought they couldn't do).

So am i being naive here - was he not being a very naughty boy? The only thing i could think of was - because of all the LED lights - it was some sort of 'show' truck and not commercial, therefore he wouldn't give a **** about what his tachograph says.

[hondansx]

Nope. Is that a prelude to asking why do i care what others are doing?

Because if it is, i'm simply curious that 9.9999% of lorry drivers - in my experience - are incredibly disciplined, and yet this guy didn't seem to care.