Licence & Points

[Sharkie]

The secret to it all is .... know the road you are driving on ..... if you travel it often you will know where they like to hide and slow down accordingly. You might be unlucky and get caught by a patrol car but that would be rare.

If you don't know the road, stick to the speed limit .... driving a slow car for trips into the unknown helps ....

[RhysQ]

Peter you may be able to verify this. i heard that the stationary speed camera vans (with the signs up around it) are only allowed to take photos at night of cars that are on its side of the road, to avoid the deliberate flashing light in the faces of those offenders on the opposite side of the road. i know that when a car on the vans side of the road gets flashed, the on coming cars on the other side get flashed anyway, but this is considered to be non-intentional. i hope you can understand what i am asking here and give us some answers. i always thought it could take photos on either side of the road day and night.

as for sneaky coppers in various cars, the Gold Coast is taking a strangle hold! in the last two weeks i have seen (keep in mind these all look completely stocko) a black Chrysler 300C, a maroon Subaru Liberty GT, a black Nissan Murano and a black HSV senator.

i have also seen a fully worked blue Pulsar GTI-R with white wheels that eggs people on for a drag race by revving at the lights and then putts off the line hoping the other car will launch. if it does, an undercover car very close-by flicks on the light show and books them. this has happened to a couple of mates of mine now. thats an absoluet disgrace in my books...a low act. i heard a few years back that it is the coppers son that drives the GTI-R.

[thestu]

i have also seen a fully worked blue Pulsar GTI-R with white wheels that eggs people on for a drag race by revving at the lights and then putts off the line hoping the other car will launch. if it does, an undercover car very close-by flicks on the light show and books them. this has happened to a couple of mates of mine now. thats an absoluet disgrace in my books...a low act. i heard a few years back that it is the coppers son that drives the GTI-R.

i have also heard of this and seen it... may be the same guy...my friends dad is a cop and borrows his sons GTI-R to do exactly that! but in melb...i shall find out who it is and tell you his name so we can go bash him...JOKES! but it really is a dog act...i mean driving quickly to the speed limit is no criminal act.

[Blitzen]

I think I got done again on Tuesday arvo...Chatting with my housemate on the way to get pizza(cheap arse Tuesday), come out of my favorite roundabout, and whats waiting for me on the other side of the rise...?? A bloody camera van!!! I look down at my speedo...I have no hope in hell of getting below the limit....

[gareth_oau]

agree with sharkie. its a good idea to know yr road. if you dont know it, then yr up for more risk if you speed.

Also, make sure you look well down the road - you can often see either a speed camera or van on the side, or you can see the brake lights of cars ahead - a dead giveway.

my two cars have a combined power output of over 600KW and i havent lost a single point in over 7 yrs (oops, speaking too soon....???)

[RhysQ]

Also, make sure you look well down the road - you can often see either a speed camera or van on the side

the radars in the vans have a range of ~600m so you would want to have bloody good vision.

[VW GTI]

my two cars have a combined power output of over 600KW and i havent lost a single point in over 7 yrs (oops, speaking too soon....???)

So you drive them like they have 60kw combined?

I think you're just trying to brag (although a Falcon is nothing to brag about).

[Spec83]

the radars in the vans have a range of ~600m so you would want to have bloody good vision.

If the 4WD / Van is on your side of the road the camera points out the front... you can slow down at the rear bumper and still not get booked..

If it is facing you, well thats another story

[runamuk]

We get the vans in Perth?

agree with sharkie. its a good idea to know yr road. if you dont know it, then yr up for more risk if you speed.

Also, make sure you look well down the road - you can often see either a speed camera or van on the side, or you can see the brake lights of cars ahead - a dead giveway.

my two cars have a combined power output of over 600KW and i havent lost a single point in over 7 yrs (oops, speaking too soon....???)

[runamuk]

Stirrer...

So you drive them like they have 60kw combined?

I think you're just trying to brag (although a Falcon is nothing to brag about).

[gareth_oau]

yr absolutely right tosspot.

heres me enjoying my 60KW

http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/gareth_oau/?action=view&current=Video-0031.flv

http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/gareth_oau/?action=view&current=audioncircuit.flv

what I am trying to say is that we can still enjoy ourselves, but use a bit of commonsense at the same time

[PeterHBne]

Peter you may be able to verify this. i heard that the stationary speed camera vans (with the signs up around it) are only allowed to take photos at night of cars that are on its side of the road, to avoid the deliberate flashing light in the faces of those offenders on the opposite side of the road. i know that when a car on the vans side of the road gets flashed, the on coming cars on the other side get flashed anyway, but this is considered to be non-intentional. i hope you can understand what i am asking here and give us some answers. i always thought it could take photos on either side of the road day and night.

I'll find out.


As for sneaky - yes - during her training GF got around with a traffic branch cop in an XR6 turbo with dark windows and number plates TRY06. They didn’t push people for a drag but if someone wanted to drag then they would get a little surprise.

[PeterHBne]

If the 4WD / Van is on your side of the road the camera points out the front... you can slow down at the rear bumper and still not get booked..

Nope - that's how I got done this week and the operator sits in the back looking at oncoming traffic - your speed is read as you approach the vehicle - not sure exact distance but close.

You must have braked before getting to the van or you are done.

[PeterHBne]

agree with sharkie. its a good idea to know yr road. if you dont know it, then yr up for more risk if you speed.

Also, make sure you look well down the road - you can often see either a speed camera or van on the side, or you can see the brake lights of cars ahead - a dead giveway.

Sigh - that's why two of mine were bad luck - first car away from lights in both instances (one going into the sun - couldn't see anything) so no normal indicators as you suggest - AND both in spots I KNOW they have radar - wasn't even trying to speed - bloody GTI just gets away a little too quick at fairly modest revs in 1st and 2nd - before you know it, you're just over 70

[Stuwey]

...i mean driving quickly to the speed limit is no criminal act.

Yes it is. I have been charged for drag racing, in a Mini, and i put that exact point to the police.

A definitive answer? No. Just like they couldn't actually tell me how much i was speeding by when i got done. "More than 90" was the answer. Again, no actual numbers were proven.