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Friday, September 28. 2007

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You know when you follow a lorry on the motorway and you start wondering about things, well can anyone in the collective genius of readers of this explain what those round stickers are for on the back of the lorry with numbers in them (e.g. 50).  Some lorries have multiple circles and some don't.  My best guess is that it's something to do with speed limiters but I can't see why they need lots with different numbers in.
Posted by Rich in Musings at 09:28 | Comments (7)
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That is indeed to do with speeds.

could it be because they go on continental roads too, so MPH and KPH? :-)
#1 Alistair on 2007-09-28 10:25 (Reply)
I thought it was to do with the continent as well.
Aren't they the different speeds that they can travel on different classes of roads?
#2 ned on 2007-09-28 10:57 (Reply)
They are usually on foreign lorries
50kph = speed limit for towns
70kph = speed limit for single carriageway
80kph = peed limit for dual carriageway
90kph = motorways

compulsary on french, for example, but not compulsary on british trucks

With love & peace Merman & Mermaid
#3 Mermaid on 2007-09-28 11:14 (Reply)
You know now, so I am not going to tell you.
#4 LordHutton on 2007-09-28 12:36 (Reply)
That is so spooky - Himself and I were just talking about that this very morning. We also commented that we thought it was law that foreign vehicles had to display country of registration sticker (ie GB for us lot, F for French etc), but the Italian lorry we were following had no such identification (none on the numberplate either).
#5 Carol on 2007-09-28 14:07 (Reply)
yes, but it's also the law that you can't go faster than those speeds on those roads, and you can't use a mobile while driving here...
Lots of people break the laws :-)
#5.1 Alistair on 2007-09-28 17:03 (Reply)
Oooooh! I thought it was for road bingo!
#6 elo15e (Homepage) on 2007-09-30 13:22 (Reply)
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