Driving Licence Loop Hole

Hairy



On the main highways you will notice the speed limit is 130 km/h.

The sign says the speed limit in the NT is 110 unless other wise posted the next sign 100 meters up the road is 130.

Cheers Steve.

Gday,
Yeh, Stuart Highway and two others are 130Km but we have a state limit of 110km???
Its just how the slimey bastards got the speed limit through without anyone knowing. If they originaly told everyone the State limit was dropping to 110km people would have kicked up.
So instead they lead eveyone to believe it was dropping to 130km.
Now all they have to do is change the speed limit to 110km on the three roads and HEY PRESTO...we fall into line with the rest of the country.

Cheers

Gday Steve,
Didnt read that bit?
Must have been going too fast I guess

LOL

Yeah the Kakadu hwy is 110, the Arnhem hwy is 130, the Barkley is 130, and the one from Katherine to WA border is 130.

Cheers Steve.

It'll take me all day to get to 110......lol

Willem



That is not a problem. You still get there. I'm sure that in your picture you weren't doing 110.

The faster you go the less you see.



Tjilpi

Gday,
"The faster you go the less you see." Sort of true.

How about " the longer it takes you to get there, the less time you have to look around when you get there"
Depends were you are going, I dont reckon there is a lot more to see on the Stuart Highway
Cheers

>I dont reckon there is a lot more to see on the Stuart Highway

Having driven the full length of it... I'm inclined to agree :)

Mike Harding

Yeah but try driving the full length at an average of 82 kph, as I did in 2000, when I was a support crew for a Japanese solar car in the Darwin to Adelaide world solar car challenge.

Once you have done it at that speed, trust me you have seen every thing including a rocket at Woomera.

Seeing how these solar cars look, I have also solved the UFO sighting at Wycliff Wells.

Just for the record we came 4th outright.

Cheers Steve.

Steve


Congratulation on your 4th place.

I have driven the Stuart Highway every year since 1978 until 2007 from Port Augusta to Darwin and don't want to ever do it again. If I do the faster the better as I long as I do it safely.



Tjilpi

HI there Motherhen, the quality was pretty good when I got done in 2000. There were two pics the first showed the whole statesman the second showed mainly the front of the car as a close up and yep you could tell it was me driving. Told the wife now to drive with the sunvisor down and sunnys on,,lol. Regards Steve M

Or do what some off duty police did in a town near us a few years ago - sped through the camera wearing ku klux klan hoods (and giving the one finger signal).

Mh

Speed cameras in W.A. take photos from the front so they can tell the sex of the driver.In Victoria they are taken from the rear.

Do they?

I recall listening to police radio on the scanner a while back and the camera cars often called in with "located in XYZ street and shooting both ways".

However I now have a contact in the speed camera design area so I'll check. Some naughty people (especially electronic design engineers) might use that sort of information to design counter-measures against speed cameras - I'll ensure any such people are properly dealt with!

Mike Harding

Thought that was the case. Hey there Scott better watch myself now eh, heard you have gone back to old job. Hope is all going well. Hope to see you at the Peachtree, not out doing your job LOL. Regards Steve M

You should change your name to : MR OH&S and if you put your name to your post we might even take you seriously, as I have never given credence to Anonymous posters.

Cheers Steve.

ROFLMAO

Ok DIO, I’ll bite (lol).

There are a number of insurance companies in Victoria that now do not impose a surcharge on customers with a history of serious points accumulation. These companies recognize that there is little correlation between the number of speeding fines issued and the crash rate. In Victoria the crash rate has been slowly declining. Is this the result of an annual spend on roads of about three billion dollars, or the proliferation of ABS and stability control technology in vehicles, or the enforcement of speed limits? Ask the insurance companies.

I’ve been done for speeding twice over the past forty years.

About fifteen years ago I was done by a hand held unit for 20kph over the speed limit in a 60kph zone. I am a bad man. It was in a small country town in outback Queensland at 3.00am in the morning. I hadn’t seen another vehicle for about four hours, and you could have fired a machine gun down the main street and not nicked a rat. Was this about some copper earning some overtime, or just keeping up with his quota of traffic fines? IMHO it had nothing to do with road safety.

About five years ago I was done by a mobile unit (parked beside the road) for 12kph over the speed limit in a 100kph zone. Bloody Queensland again - I must be a very bad man. The mobile unit had been set up at the end of a 20 klm stretch of winding road, at a point where traffic held up by slow vehicles would naturally, and safely, overtake. Again, IMHO, nothing to do with road safety, and all about revenue raising. On contesting this fine I was informed that it was against the law to exceed the speed limit to overtake a slower vehicle. I wonder how many drivers are aware of this regulation, or what percentage of drivers pay any attention to it.

So mate, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. My view, after forty years behind the wheel without being involved in any type of crash or insurance claim, is that the current enforcement of speeds limits has more to do with revenue raising, and little to do with road safety.

George_M

Jesus dio...............

Talk about "Holier than thou".

......................BIGDOG

you bet me to it
if you dont want to pay a fine or lose a point its so simple even a moron can understand
DONT SPEED
geez why is it so hard for some people to understand.

>DONT SPEED

Oh! OK!

So I'm safe doing 100kph on the Jameison to Woods Point road then? Thanks for that reassurance of legislation.

And we won't even discuss why it's OK for a 42 ton truck and a Porsch to both be limited to 100kph!

Mike Harding

PS. Some of you people need to discover Winney the Poo is not a real bear!