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When it comes to speeding, Brian Weatherley reckons if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. But that doesn't mean he approves of the 40mph single-carriageway HGV limit and if you really want something to worry about, he can oblige...
I promise lhis is the last time I will write about speeding. I hope that by the time I've finished, I will have put an end to all that whingeing about how unfair our current laws are. It's no secret that I haven't got much sympathy for anyone caught by a speed camera. Repeat after me: "I'm not unlucky I'm not being persecuted and I'm not the victim of a huge government conspiracy against motorists I was just breaking the law.."
However, the guy I heard on Talk Sport radio the other day (you can see how desperate I was for entertainment) clearly felt the nation's drivers were suffering from the kind of harassment that was previously reserved for elderly women in the Middle Ages who owned broomsticks and black cats. I've heard some rants in my time OK, yes, I may even have had a few myself but this guy took the biscuit.
Listen carefully (because I'll say this only once) the way to avoid being prosecuted for speeding is: not to break the speed limit. And as my 13-year-old daughter would say after delivering such a crushing statement of the bleeding obvious: "Er... DUHHHH!"
"The kind of harrassment that was previously reserved for eklerly women in the Middle Ages who owned broomsticks"
But if you want to moan about outdated HGV speed limits, that's another thing. I agree 200% that driving an artic at 40mph on a single-carriageway road is ridiculous in this day and age and is guaranteed to win you more enemies than Saddam Hussein. But until those limits are changed, don't waste your breath complaining about Gatso cameras.
If you really want to do something about it join the RHA, send a letter to your local MR call Talk Sport. But for goodness' sake, stop telling me your troubles; I've got enough of my own.
However, if you really want something to grumble about, consider this. Within the next 10 years on-board satellite tracking technology will allow the authorities to issue you with a speeding ticket anytime, anyplace, anywhere in the country. And you thought the lorry road user charge was going to be 'neutral'? Boy, are you in for a surprise.., move over, Big Brother.