Hasbeen,

Cruise control is your friend. IF everyone sat on the speed limit there would be MUCH less drama on the roads. One thing that annoys me more than someone up my date while I'm doing the limit is someone doing 15 - 20 under where you can't overtake.

If road transport was invented now, it wouldn't get past OH&S let alone adopted for your average punter.

Agreed, StG, at least on the expressway, where everyone else is on them too, but out here in the sticks they seem to go up & down the speed range, to relieve the boredom.

I love the New England Highway. You can usually pick a well driven truck, cruising about the speed limit & just follow. If you sit back far enough to avoid stone chips, you can attach yourself, with an imaginary tow rope, & have relaxing drive, at about as fast as is legal, with out all the effort of watching in for the speedo, & out for cameras.

Does seem ludicrous Ludwig, but sadly nothing surprises anymore.

Good habits should be learned in the beginning and bad ones disencouraged. We have become the limp society.

Hasbeen: << I love the New England Highway. You can usually pick a well driven truck, cruising about the speed limit & just follow. If you sit back far enough to avoid stone chips, you can attach yourself, with an imaginary tow rope, & have relaxing drive, at about as fast as is legal, with out all the effort of watching in for the speedo, & out for cameras. >>

Ha! That's my trick, particularly at night - helps avoid the roos too, particularly on the New England, on which I drive frequently. Mind you, I know a bloke who leases a roadhouse on the New England Highway, and he tells me that in the past 6 months the number of trucks has decreased dramatically, since the completion of more motorway sections of the Pacific Highway. We don't get so much business from truckies either, now that I think of it.

I got my motorcycle licence in the early 60s at the Chullora motor registry in Sydney. The test consisted of riding up the Hume Hwy. for 100 yards, then riding back down again, then doing a figure 8 turn in the registry driveway. That was it! PASSED!

Ah the good ol' days, when it was 100 times easier to get a licence.

This makes perfect sense...

if you have a licence and speed you get fined ie the govt gets more of your money.

if you don't have a licence and speed you get the licence ie the govt gets more of your money and the chance to have another crack at your wallet later.

The jihad against doing a few extra clicks over the ludicrously low speed limits has nought to do with road safety and everything to do taxation.