Thread: Speed limits different for different drivers and other thoughts.

Makes our restrictions feel like none...

Trucks, learners and vehicles towing trailers = 100 kph

Otherwise 110 kph statewide...

Legally you can only travel 20 kph below the speed unless you can justify your reason to...

Like all states, there are times when you are restricted, like trucks under escort in certain areas, heavy haulage loads can travel slow if the heat is too high(otherwise they would spend more time changing tyres), and other restrictions, especially RAV permit vehicles having to be 10 kph upto 40 kph below limits in some areas(generally gravel roads)...

Sadly, those not in the industry, seem to think that RAV vehicles have to be 20 kph under the limit everywhere they go and are not allowed to overtake... Oh yeh, a RAV permit vehicle is like roadtrains, some B-doubles + combo's... In the case of my last job, it was a pocket roadtrain, 27.5 mtrs, upto 100 tonnes and still allowed 100 kph on the highway...

As for people on the road, the ones that have no reason to hinder or hold up the rest of us, they are a danger... If someone is towing a trailer, horse float or got an old bomb trying to make it town, then we have to just chew the bottom lip and accept, we will be doing that ourselves, or have done that...

I find the drivers from a place called Donnybrook, the worst and slowest in the sth west... They absolutely annoy me, I am sure its a condition of living there, they issue DB plates than remove there brains....

Luckily we have fairly average speed limits between vehicle types, but come holiday time, forget it, sensible goes out the window...

Legally you can only travel 20 kph below the speed unless you can justify your reason to...

I have been driving (Mostly in WA) for 46 years and I have Never Ever heard of anyone being fined for travelling Under the speed limit.
The posted speed limit is just that a LIMIT, Not a TARGET and you can legally travel at ANY speed as long as it doesn't exceed the posted limit.

I think the maximum speed limit for P platers should be same as everyone else, so they don't cause a hazard.

Originally Posted by trout1105

I have been driving (Mostly in WA) for 46 years and I have Never Ever heard of anyone being fined for travelling Under the speed limit.
The posted speed limit is just that a LIMIT, Not a TARGET and you can legally travel at ANY speed as long as it doesn't exceed the posted limit.

Pretty sure the minimum speed limit on the Freeway ( aka car-park ) is 80kmh .

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I found myself travelling at 90kph (in a 100 zone) behind a law abiding red 'P' driver, four caravans and a horse float. In the 110, fully loaded (four kids, and their gear plus three dogs) with a trailer, I had no hope of passing them with the amount of traffic coming the other way.

To overtake a vehicle doing 10 kph under the limit would take quite along time if staying under the limit regardless of power. I'll be very choosy when overtaking when I can only travel 10 kph faster afterwards - speeding fine cost vs time benefit.

Originally Posted by trout1105

I have been driving (Mostly in WA) for 46 years and I have Never Ever heard of anyone being fined for travelling Under the speed limit.
The posted speed limit is just that a LIMIT, Not a TARGET and you can legally travel at ANY speed as long as it doesn't exceed the posted limit.

I've heard of it hear in NSW, it's not a regular thing, but it has been done a few times, obstructing the flow of traffic or words to that affect.

When I was on L's the fastest allowed was 72 kph. Not very fast considering to get anywhere by road you were on a 110kph highway.
Then P's for a year at 80kph.
No wonder I spent most of my time bushbashing. Brilliant fun in a '63 mini.

obstructing the flow of traffic or words to that affect.

I have also heard of that and it is applied to drivers that are "Deliberately" stopping or slowing traffic, Not Grandad and Nanna towing a rig at 70-80kpa because they are in no particular hurry and are enjoying the scenery as they travel.
The slow way that some drivers trundle along IS annoying But it is NOT illegal