Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
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I'm talking sitting on/around the posted limit at night. Compared to 80km/h that's an additional 30km for every hour driven... or 300km... a significant difference.

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I s'pose.
But then again every state is a bit different I guess.
Vic is much harder to sit on the limit, which is 100 anyhow for the vast majority of our road system.
But as a case in point, try sitting on the speed limit driving from Melb to Malacoota.

1. easy-ish on the freeway section, but there's always some idiot in the passing lane at the slowest speed.
2. once you get off the freeway, you have to pass through about 3000 meaningless towns, most of which have 40km/h speed limits
3. of course the Vic government have a tendency to build freeways with dangerous cross(90 degree) intersections, with the inevitable major accident blackspots situation happening .. and their response is to lower the speed limit to 80, which if course no one does, so the cops sit there laying in wait and you're now into license losing speeding infringement territory as you're over 15k/h over the posted limit.
Added to this, the point that the accident rate doesn't drop either!
15 years later they finally decided that a million deaths at this one blackspot probably deserves a proper overpass style intersection.

So with all that, trying to maintain a 'speed limit' average speed(in Victoria) is futile in most circumstances.

I guess one needs to factor whether it's costing you money to drive, or whether you're getting paid an hourly rate to drive .. guess which category I'm currently under
But in saying that, when I did drive for my own pay rate, I still drove in a similar manner anyhow.I wasn't paid enough to wear my vehicles out at a faster rate than I prefer, and anything less than 500K klms wasn't acceptable.