{"id":31945,"date":"2023-06-05T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/?p=31945"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:07:54","slug":"how-many-truck-and-bus-drivers-get-speeding-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/how-many-truck-and-bus-drivers-get-speeding-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"How many truck and bus drivers get speeding tickets?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We made a request to police to provide statistics for speeding amongst heavy vehicle drivers. It&#8217;s much less likely that a truck driver will be breaking the speed limit than a car driver, but 2185 infringement notices were issued in 2022, resulting in just over $160,000 in fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Offence description<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Offences<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total fines<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Exceeded 80km\/h (school bus)<\/td><td>1<\/td><td>$30<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Exceeded 80km\/h (trailer)<\/td><td>27<\/td><td>$2570<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Exceeded 90km\/h (heavy motor vehicle)<\/td><td>1436<\/td><td>$86,450<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>All other speeding<\/td><td>721<\/td><td>$70,960<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sum<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>2185<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>$160,010<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike cars, trucks are not capable of exceeding the speed limit by a huge margin, which is why the average speeding fine for those caught going over 90km\/h was only $60, compared to all other speeding (which will include speeding in urban areas) at $98. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers can learn how to manage speed with our speed awareness course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/course\/speeding-course\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/speed-awareness.jpg\" alt=\"Training course for avoiding speeding tickets and managing your own speed more safely.\" class=\"wp-image-28951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/speed-awareness.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/speed-awareness-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made a request to police to provide statistics for speeding amongst heavy vehicle drivers. It&#8217;s much less likely that a truck driver will be breaking the speed limit than a car driver, but 2185 infringement notices were issued in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/how-many-truck-and-bus-drivers-get-speeding-tickets\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,18],"class_list":["post-31945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-vehicle","tag-speeding","tag-speeding-fine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31947,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945\/revisions\/31947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}