New amount of pionts on license in NSW
Posted by: araman
24th Nov 2010 09:37am
The government is thinking about adding 1 point on to your license for car drivers and 2 points for professional drivers. This is a great idea but it would be better to reward the better drivers with a clean record with the extra points.
Professional drivers need a higher point level because they are driving a lot longer hours.
If you have a clean record for five or ten years or in some cases a lot longer you should have a higher level of points for doing the right thing. If you have lost points for speeding or some other crime why are you getting rewards with more points, is this so you can speed a bit more before you lose your license.
jjdrer
- 18th Aug 2011 11:05am
There has just been a court case where a truck driver was accused of doing 113kph in a 100kph zone. Number 1, his truck is legally governed at 100. Number 2, he proved that his GPS showed that he was only doing 100kph. I know a professional driver who was caught entering a country town over the speed limit. He was being tailgated by a car, and had he braked to slow to the limit quickly enough, the car would have gone under the back of his truck. The car was so close to him, he could only see its hood in his specially fitted mirrors. After it sped past him the other end of the town, then "cut him off" (and they wonder why there is accidents - trucks don't stop on threepence as the saying goes) he discovered that it had unrestrained children in the back. It was going so fast he didn't get the rego number.
As for the extra restrictions for a down-hill section of the SE freeway heading down into Adelaide, a professional truck driver I know says the speed limit for 5 axle and over trucks is too high, that he always drives at least 15 kph lower than that, and goes down through the gears, partially using the motor as a brake, not have foot on the brake all the time resulting in brakes overheating and failing.
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