ok last go at this. i was not trying to speed/deliberatley speeding. inside lane, daydreaming a lil.?

Question

i dont claim to be whiter than white, i wasnt trying to "ok im caught, 103, accidently, on togo fast".
i see im getting a ban, driving trucks sux anyway, ppl treat you like an asshole, all i was trying to say is, why should i get humped for a slight mistemena, when other real criminals are getting the softly softly approach. the government is giving junkies smack in jail, cos its not fair for the crims not to get high,lol.ok im done for, 103, was acccidental. but some off you ppl, jesus.wish i hadnt asked. i might come on as an abused pedo, from jail, see how many sympathy cards i get.

Answer 1

Well my friend, 103 is not an accident even in a Mercedes Mclaren SLR. Eighty, even 90 for a brief bit, and I would be right there with you whining, but 103, you had a mental lapse my friend, and endangered yourself and everyone on the road while lapsing. The fact that you admit to day dreaming while doing over 100 just adds credence that you are exactly where you belong. It is the same as if you went outside and fired a pistol in every direction. Maybe no one got hit, but the potential for death and or injury was quite high. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't kill someone or injure them so that they could sue you for all the income you will be making for the rest of your life.
Oh yeah, learn to spell and write. Just trying to get through your syntax errors and mis spellings was painful enough.

Answer 2

103 in a truck is insane, if thats what you did then thats a little more than a mistermeaner. If it was in a car though, especially a modern planted car, then I agree with you it's time they actually started dealing with proper criminals rather than the easy targets. Problem is the jury are afraid of proper criminals, they just want lots of fast definite convictions to show that they catch more criminals, failing completly to realise that we'd rather rapists be removed from society and real menaces dealt with than people who stray a couple of numbers!!!

In the 1960's a car needed 315ft to stop from 70-0, but modern cars can do it in half that, not to mention in full control. Most would do your 103-0 in less than that which shows how out-dated the speed rules are in many respects.

Answer 3

Look at http://www.pepipoo.com/Home.htm to see if the rules have been adherred to. Failing that take your ban like a man. It's a load of B*****ks that you were accidentally doing that speed. specially as you allege to be a professional driver. It's not a misdemeanour your were at least 33mph over the maximum speed limit. You too are one of the "real criminals" and you will get a slap on the wrist (a few weeks ban) so you're being treated just as equally as the local smackhead
Your mistake is that you weren't paying attention to a lethal weapon at high speeds. I've no problem with people going fast providing they're on the right type of road with their brain switched on. Yours obviously wasnt.
At least your insurance will like the increased premiums and maybe just maybe you'll switch on in the future.

Answer 4

Unfortunately mate your looking at an automatic ban. If it was in Scotland it would be a court appearance but not necessarily a ban. Although you weren't deliberately speeding I would recommend you don't mention daydreaming as the could up the charge to careless driving. Your best course of action is to say you hadn't realise you speed had crept up to 103mph (hardly "slight" but it didn't hurt anyone) but admit you were wrong. Take it on the chin, life goes on. Speeding's easier to monitor than kiddie fiddling though.

Answer 5

May I take the time to point out that the word some of you are searching for is MISDEMEANOUR?

I reckon the poster here is winding us up because no truck can exceed 56mph because of governors fitted nowadays. Ever spent ages stuck behind one lorry trying to overtake another on a dual carriageway? That's why. Oh, and who ever said life was fair?

As an answer to the basic problem of points though, I have two licences, one french and one english. I use the english one in France and the French one here. I still have all my 24 points that way.

Answer 6

You can protest all you want, but I'm afraid the law is an ***, ans sadly, some people are pretty oblivious to it. The motorway may have been empty. Hell, you could be driving at 2 in the morning on the best-lit motorway in the world, yet it wouldn't matter. YOu are simply a cash cow for the police, and a stick for the speed-camera-avocating-loonies, and if you want to protest, they just have to throw a few statistics at you to paint you as a child murderer.

You could try legal advice, and although I'm no legal expert, your chances of coming out with yoiur job intact is slim. You were driving at a rather high speed, so that's enough for the authorities. Even Nick Freeman would have his work cut out, unless he can find some loophole somewhere, of course...

Also, it's unfortunate that some people seem to believe that speed is the be-all of road safety, and would happily have speed cameras every two metres on our roads spying on us.Don't listen to such people, who are quite frankly too brainwashed or stupid/ignorant to undertstand.

Thing is you can have all the speed detection and MPH pedanticsim in the world, but is that going to stop some drunkard incabable of controling a car driving home from the pub after a good binge? Not unless he happens to be speeding, of course That's why we need more human coppers patroling our roads, rather than pathetic machines.

Answer 7

Is that 103 miles or kilometers per hour? What was the speed limit? Was it your first ticket? If you are in the US, 103 is at least 35-40 miles over the limit, that must have been some daydream.

Answer 8

I hope I wasn't an a**ss to you. No one except little old ladies and idots have completely clean hands when it comes to motoring. That includes me, right down to twenty over once, same reason, day dreaming.
If I have not been offensive, in this or other communications, it is because I do know I am not perfect either. And yes, I have driven a bigger vehicle (straight, higher tonnage, and people treat you like suck.
None the less, if I have not been offensive, why not award me best answer for both this and the other reply, to your first question? I have never asked anyone to do this before, but I do know most other responses were anything but kind.
Feck it, we are all just human. No truck driver goes without some citation eventually!

Answer 9

Dude, this is like the 4th time you've whined about this.

Yeah the law sucks, England is only after the motorist, blah blah. This has been the same story for the last 10 years.

You got caught, take it like a man, and stop asking the whole world for sympathy.

Answer 10

The problem is that 103MPH is an automatic ban, anything over 100MPH is an automatic ban.
The magistrates cannot show discretion any other way than the length of the ban they give you as the book they abide by says:

+100MPH Ban - Automatic - length of ban at magistrates discretion.

I got banned for 3 months, I got caught, it was a mistake, I got banned, but I tell you what....I did not whine as much as you do. I just got on with it.
Get used to it
Oh and daydreaming is 'driving without due care and attention' so please dont use that as an excuse.