With regards to accidents. I have dealt with 2 write offs in the past year were we have gone into the rear of someone. Whilst not directly down to speed, it is down to inappropriate speed for the conditions (rain / snow) and not having enough braking distance.

I am dealing with insurance claims this morning and all of the ones in my pile are our fault. Labourers get fined £100 for AF accidents and that's payable over 4 weeks so it just doesn't hit them where it hurts.

Was reading an article yesterday by Fleet Manager at British Gas who says that incidents fell by 8% in the first year and in the past two years 14%.

BTW the cost is £50 per vehicle as the ECU is just altered and takes about ½hr. We have 85 commercial vehicles.

And we have a high turn over labour as jobs start and finish in different areas of the country and they don't all want to lodge away to go onto a different contract. We also have labour only/sub-contractors driving our vans which isn't ideal for me but they definitely DGAF.

 

If you get it done I don't see the need for a sticker.
70mph is the speed limit on the motorway and dual carriageways anyway.
It might be nice to explain why he can't overtake the car in front on a B road at doing 45 in a 60, but even if he could go over 70 I don't know if the van would be able to accelerate to do it anyway iyswim.

As someone said, it won't stop them doing 60 in a 30.
It won't stop them accelerating flat out from 0 to 70 with a van full of bricks or breaking heavy and late, or revving the crap out the engine in third gear.

If driving at 71+ causes a lot of extra wear and tear on the vehicles then it might be worth it – apart from that.. no idea.

 

[QUOTE=Bundle of Mayhem,Jul 15 2010, 08:57 AM] With regards to accidents.

 

It's more to do with cost savings and image. We could put restrictors on but they could still do 50 in a 30 do I will never stop them speeding. British Gas say that they met with huge resistance but last year got 800 new vehicles with restrictors and not a single complaint.

 

Transport companies have been known to fit tyres at the lowest possible wear limit and run them at the lowest permissible pressure when they are having the tachos and limiter calibrated.

Then, once the limit has been set, they refit much newer tyres and pump them up so increasing the rolling radius of the tyre and increasing the actual speed the lorry can achieve. Ok, so it only makes a small difference, but can explain why one lorry manages to drive a couple of mph hour faster than another.

Not that the depot that maintains our lorry has a set of wheels available for use by their customers for exactly this reason

PS i'd put the stickers on. But none of this saving the environment bollocks on it.

 

I might get one for the S2000 - "Limited to 150. For the sake of F uck", probably.

I just react very badly to all this sanctimonious claptrap when it's based upon nothing empirical. So any "image effect" would be negative by sticking such stickers on, personally.

Similarly, most adverts cause me a very negative reaction these days.

I've yet to ascertain whether a Honda CR-Z instrument cluster can withstand the impact damage it will likely receive when it starts showing me pictograms of trees, for example.

But there are so many twunts who believe there IS some scientific basis for speed limits out there, it'd probably be a great idea.

 

In our company the driver is liable for the insurance excess in a fault accident, £250 I think, the problem of speeding drivers in vans is often in delivery schedules, our sales staff are always making promises drivers can't keep even when speeding from drop to drop, and then angry customers call the transport manager who wants to know which lay bye the driver has been napping in,( even though we all have trackers in the vans ) driving in Edinburgh at the moment with all the road works means I'm stationary more than moving, for the foreseeable future too, so then it's max throttle when I can move, within the speed limit, just to get the work done.

 

Another idea.

How do you handle the fuel bills BoM?

Maybe offer a set pence per mile based upon the Govt. reccomended - currently 14ppm for up to 2ltr diesels.
Pay fuel from cash expenses with a 30 day reimbursement.

Once they realise they can make a few quid extra by slowing down, then trust me it will work in your favour

 

Why do all back office employees act holier than thou......
Have you actually asked the business users what they want?

 

I thought S2K had proved through the CG experience that the placebo effect doesn't exist?