The speed limit for heavy vehicles on the open road is 90km\/h, but the open road speed limit for cars and motorbikes is 100km\/h (or 110km\/h on selected stretches). This means that trucks could exceed their speed limit by up to 29km\/h (i.e. 119km\/h) before getting a ticket from a fixed speed camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously, in a 50km\/h zone, a truck has the same speed limit as a car (50km\/h), therefore no differentiation had to be made, but on the open road, some truckers were acting with impunity and flouting the speed limit without risk of being caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The older fixed cameras only managed to issue 433 tickets to truckies driving at more than 90km\/h out of 611,712 issued for speeding to all drivers; a further 1632 tickets were issued to heavy vehicle drivers by other means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, newer cameras can measure the size of the vehicle as it passes. Is this likely to result in false positives? There are some large vehicles such as the Dodge Ram<\/a> and some larger class 1 box body trucks, but police haven’t said how accurate the measurement of a heavy vehicle is; presumably there would be human intervention in each case to determine whether a fine should be sent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many trucks now have GPS monitoring and their drivers (or the drivers’ managers) get a report of overspeed events and can act on that information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The speed limit for heavy vehicles on the open road is 90km\/h, but the open road speed limit for cars and motorbikes is 100km\/h (or 110km\/h on selected stretches). This means that trucks could exceed their speed limit by up…<\/span><\/p>\n