Originally Posted by
Eagle
no..its not a van ... people carriers can speed along at full whack with 7 lives in whilst the poor bloke on his own driving a van gets penalised .......
it dont matter that the vito or v class are fundamntally the same ... its a van .. its not allowed to go as fast as the car version...
vans derived from car chassis are a big grey area in the mind of most traffic police ... if it looks like a van then you will get tugged if they feel like it..
have had the same argument with many police officrs in the south of england... they are never wrong don't forget...
this is pretty much the same with lorries and coaches too!can never understand why they can whisk along at speeds far in excess of mine with kids etc on board when im only carrying boxes of stuff!
another thing is that within that lower speed limit a lot of people do not actually realise what a dual carriageway is!!! even if there are 2 lanes going in your direction this can be a single carriageway,and vice versa,there are dual carriageways with one lane going each way,it has bugger all to do with lane numbers,its all about the separation of traffic travelling in different directions,ie a central reservationmarks a dual carriageway