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Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 17/4/2014

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Transit van and a caravan is a bad mix unless the van has weight in the back.

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Quote: Originally posted by geoff+emmy on 17/4/2014

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Quote: Originally posted by jeff juke on 17/4/2014Transit van and a caravan is a bad mix unless the van has weight in the back.

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What is the weight of a transit van?

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Quote: Originally posted by michell8 on 17/4/2014

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Welcome to about 15yrs ago, you can't pull fuses & hot wire tachos anymore, its all controlled by truck ecu. Any attempt to interfere with speed limiter will show up at truck services & all digi tacho records are downloaded & checked.

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Quote: Originally posted by thesixkings on 22/4/2014

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So when I was sat at 60 towing this weekend easily being overtaken by trucks they were actually travelling slower than I was, must need to get my speedometer checked.
I was told the other day they can pull along side a lorry and connect via bluetooth get all details then pull driver over further up thd road.
The threat of fines and points doesn't seem much of a deterrent these days.

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Quote: Originally posted by michell8 on 22/4/2014

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Car speedometers can legally read as much as 10% optimistic, ie indicated 60mph is really 54mph, this disprepancy will increase as tyres wear. For obvious reasons they cannot read 'slow'. Truck speedos are linked to tachograph so have to be accurate.

This why a truck will overtake you even if your car if reading indicated 60mph when truck is actually doing 56mph & also why you can get away with doing an indicated 80mph on a motorway because you are not actually doing much more than 70.

You cannot tamper with speed limiters on modern trucks, it will show up on computer at service time. With the cost of diesel nowadays it is no longer in any transport companies interest to increase the speed of their trucks anyway.

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