{"id":105,"date":"2008-04-08T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/105"},"modified":"2008-04-08T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:42:34","slug":"85-of-van-drivers-dont-know-van-speed-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/105","title":{"rendered":"85% of Van Drivers Don&#8217;t Know Van Speed Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a while ago about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/33\">common mistakes drivers make with van speed limits<\/a> &#8211; it seems the problem is not getting any better.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vauxhall.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Vauxhall<\/a> has found that as many as 85% of van drivers don&#8217;t know the correct speed limits for their vans, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtransport.com\/Articles\/2008\/04\/07\/130273\/most-van-drivers-ignorant-of-speed-limits.html\" target=\"_blank\">RoadTransport.com article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vauxhall found that many van drivers assume that the limits are the same as for cars. In fact, all vans over 2 tonnes maximum gross weight are subject to separate speed limits for goods vehicles up to 7.5 tonne.<\/p>\n<p>Only car-derived vans with a maximum weight of under 2 tonnes are subject to the same speed limits as cars. In other words, all Transit-sized vans (and some smaller ones) are subject to a different set of speed limits to cars.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the correct speed limits for most vans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Single carriageways: 50mph (72% didn&#8217;t know this)<\/li>\n<li>Dual Carriageways: 60mph (52% got this wrong)<\/li>\n<li>Motorways: 70mph (56% got this wrong)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the figures in brackets show, a great many van drivers don&#8217;t know (or perhaps don&#8217;t care) about the correct speed limits for their vans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/news\/newsindex\/display.var.1827825.0.police_warn_van_drivers_over_speed.php\" target=\"_blank\">Police forces around the country are tightening up on these breaches<\/a> and van drivers can expect to be ticketed if caught.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Do I Know Which Speed Limits Apply To My Hire Van?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The easiest solution is to ask your hire company when you pickup the vehicle. All but the smallest, lightest vans have a maximum gross weight over 2 tonnes, so the chances are yours will too.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of vans that fit into the car speed limit category are:<\/p>\n<p>Vauxhall Astravan and Corsavan, Ford Fiesta Van<\/p>\n<p>Examples of smaller vans with a max weight over 2 tonnes and lower speed limits are:<\/p>\n<p>Ford Transit Connect, Peugeot Expert, Citroen Dispatch, Ford Transit SWB, Vauxhall Vivaro SWB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by Vauxhall has found that as many as 85% of van drivers don&#8217;t know the correct speed limits for their vans, according to this RoadTransport.com article.<\/p>\n<p>Vauxhall found that many van drivers assume that the limits are the same as for cars. In fact, all vans over 2 tonnes maximum gross weight are subject to separate speed limits for goods vehicles up to 7.5 tonne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[186,85,185,13,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}