Stuck behind a slow lorry again

Hi I am a Tesco Hgv driver working out of Avonmouth DC.
With Tesco ALL speed limits must be adhered to. If we get caught speeding in a Tesco lorry we are literally in for a B--------g.
Also if we rush we loose hours working which means less pay. Put the two together we dont have any reason to rush.
Whilst we understand your frustration its worth remembering that we ourselves were caught in traffic when we were getting to work.
Tesco rely on a lot of agency and contractor drivers. These boys do go over the limits, but most Tesco employed staff wont speed.
Speed limits of HGV are 40mph single carrigeway, 50mph dual and 60 on motorways. All Tesco lorries are restricted to 55 or 56 mph.
Also all lorries have Tachographs. All police or VOSA have to do is check tachos and speeding will show up, so its not worth speeding. Its our hard earned licence at the end of the day.
If you know you get stuck every day why dont you all leave the house a little bit earlier. Less stress equals a better day.

truck drivers must abide by the law and whatever the speed limit may be then whats the complaint, where it say national speed limit, on motorways its 56mph on dual carriageways its 50mph on single carriageways its 40mph for hgv's

Hi I would just like to thank the tesco lorry driver on the A36 on the warminster road who was driving at 57 MPH on an 56 plate, it was good all the cars driving at a safe distance between each other no one trying to overtake, well done that driver.

What I would like to see is all the Lgv drivers take one day off either as holiday , a rest day or as a sick day as long as its the same day then we will all have a rally in the biggest park we can find too discuss the lame points that are thrown at us every day of the year we will then discuss our low wages our hours our weekend work , then as we chat we will watch as all of the uk comes too a grinding halt. No fuel at the pumps. No food in the Shops. No wood that makes the pallets that alot of the goods are delivered on. No containers being moved from the ports. Now if we did this for 1 week the uk would be in melt down. ive driven them since I was 21 and I drive a car and a motor bike , we are viewed by so many people as the scurge of the uk so lets do it 1 day and lets watch. The French blockade one port and look at the result but we wont commit any crime just stay away from work just one day.

Banning all heavy slow vehicles during peak times would not stop queues. If I remember correctly, most queues are caused by cars, specificly the 45mph brigade on single 60mph roads. Too slow to keep the faster drivers sane but too fast to overtake safely.

Atleast most lorry drivers with no traffic in the way will sit at 56 on 60's. Better than 40 - 45 that a good percentage of light vehicles sit at.

I agree 60 miles limit should be on modern vans/trucks to keep in line with traffic. I work for a well know telecoms company (25,000 miles per year) and I am constantly being stuck behind a truck (normaly Tescos) going 40Mph in a 60Mph, but don't think its just vans/trucks that piss me off I am also getting constantly stuck behind somebody day dreaming or somebody over the age of 60 that is again constantly going below the speed limit or somebody that doesn't even know the proper speed limit. Can I just clarify if you are driving a car the speed limit is as follows: Dual Carriage Way and Motorway is 70Mph. Any road (A or B! class) if it has a national speed limit sign is a 60Mph road that includes even B roads. Their has never been a law to say that B roads are 50Mph they are always 60Mph unless they are not national speed limit. Getting back to truck/vans and slow drivers as I said before I believe that trucks and vans should have a limit of 60 but I believe that their should be a law that states that if you are wanting to go less than the speed limit and you have somebody behind you, you should make ever effort to pull over. I know that seems radical, however everybody needs to get somewhere and if you can't handle the roads or are in no rush to get somewhere then there should be no problem with you pulling over.

Actually its the government who restrict HGV lorries to a maximum of 56mph, and the speed limit for HGV on single carriageways is 40mph.... So dont moan at lorry drivers for not breaking the law.

As a Tesco driver operating out of Thurrock DC, all I can say is that we are encouraged to adhere to all speed and weight restrictions. In some cases it is as frustrating for us as it is for the other road users that the 40 MPH on single carriageway has not been amended. Roads such as A22, A11. A21. A12. A140 are particularly frustrating. As for cyclists and in particular in London imagin the frustration for a HGV driver eventually getting round a cyclist only to be stopped by traffic lights and watch the peddle pusher going through on red, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Its the goverment that make the rules of the road 40 mph is a stupid speed on trunk roads and is nothing short of dangerous modern trucks have disc brakes abs and can roll along at 50 with no problem what we need in this country is a national drivers strike I would give all you moaning faced car drivers four days and you would be begging us to come back I pray that one day it will happen then maybe us truckers will get the respect we deserve .

hello tez reed my email again and you will see that I am not criticising about the lorries traveling at 40mph I do understand about lorries and the speed restrictions on an A roads,read all of it and you will get it, one thing that really gets under my skin is that were meant to stay behind a slow lorry but on the trunk roads, why cant lorries stay in the slow lane in stead of driving side by side on duel carriageways and no one lorry will give way , some of you lorry drivers on the duel carriageways are as bad as car drivers on A roads not all.

Please get your facts correct . Lorry drivers are travelling at 10mph below the speed limit. The limit is 40mph, do you get it. They are doing the speed limit. Speed limits are there for a reason, 44 tonnes take time to stop.

yesterday I was following a tesco lorry on the A36 driving at 40 mph, I then turned of by the swan pub a short cut to the A360 in to Salisbury only to find my self back behind him at screw bridge roundabout, so what I am saying is that he got there driving at 30mph and 40mph I got stuck in traffic and I gained no time at all, one thing to learn from this is to give my self more time, but the one thing that really gets under my skin me of is that were meant to stay behind a slow lorry but on the trunk roads why cant lorries stay in the slow lane in stead of driving side by side on duel carridgeways and no one lorry will giveway , some of you lorry drivers on the duel carageways are as bad as car drivers on A roads not all.