Its a typical big fat shitty case of "Do as I say, NOT do as I do!"
Like not signalling, talking on mobiles, u-turns over unbroken lines, speeding etc, etc, blah, blah, blah.
Our local Speed Camera 4WD (They are currently using a Nissan Patrol) and the Grey Ghost (A Van)
Pull up and set up where ever they want, Bike lanes, No parking zones, Center traffic Islands (Nearly causing
accidents while they slow down on the highway to try and climb the curbing to park) Painted traffic Islands,
Truck stop lanes.
The last one is causing truckies massive headaches, My mum works for a National supermarket company and she
was talking to one of there Transport company drivers Recently (About 6 weeks ago) he pulled over in the Truckstop lane
to take a phonecall and take his legally required break, and was told to move his truck further up the road or he
would be booked. The Camera Van was parked at the end of and to the left of the lane. The truck blocked the Camera's view.
He was doing the legal thing, this was the only place for 10k's to pull up his B Double safely, make his call and have his
30 min break as required by law within the time frame required, he Apparently showed his Log book to the cop, but to no avail,
He was moved on...
Now you can not see this van until you are pulling into the lane as it it is just after a slight bend and there is a fruit and Veg
vendor van parked just before it, so it's not like the guy deliberately pulled in front of the cop to block him from taking photo's
he would have already slowing down long before the camera van would have been in sight.
So what was the poor prick supposed to do?
Stay put and follow the Log book rules: Risk Copping a fine!
Try to make the next stop within his limited time window to take his break: Rick copping a fine!
He moved on, and got the the next stop, but as anyone involved with the truck driving industry knows, the Log book rules are
strictly enforced and the penalties are severe for the drivers and the companies that employ them. So considering there is a cop station
pretty close to the next stop, he was a little concerned about going over his time window, but luckily for him there was no problem.
Traffic branch, the only time they are useful, is when they are being run over by Traffic!
