Highway Patrol officers in Northern New South Wales have stopped a heavy vehicle they claim was modified to travel at any speed.
Acting on information received from Queensland Police, officers attached to Northern Borders Highway Patrol stopped a B Double travelling on the M1 Pacific Highway at Tweed Heads at about 2pm yesterday.
Police claim the truck was detected travelling at 124kmh in a 100kmh zone.
It’s alleged that during an inspection of the vehicle at Chinderah, it was found the truck was fitted with a pulse generator allowing it to travel at any speed.
A further search of the vehicle allegedly uncovered an electronic system allowing speedometer controls to be overridden.
The pulse generator was removed from the B Double and the truck was defected.
The 49-year-old male driver was issued an infringement notice for travelling at 20kmh above the speed limit.
Inquiries are also continuing after alleged discrepancies were found in the driver’s work diary.
Wow…the finally caught a truck speeding. It happens daily on every highway in NSW. I travel at the speed limit on the freeways and cant catch them. Either the police or the RMS have to come up with better ways to catch these cowboys.
Not all truck drivers are cowboys.can you tell a loaded truck from an unloaded one that is the speed difference and when I say speed 100km and YES I do actually know the difference as I’m married to a truck driver and I have been in the passenger seat too,and I have seen WAY too many speeding COWBOY/GIRL car drivers and believe car drivers need more common sense where trucks are concerned
Agree 100 %
Hey Mick please dont go thinking all truck drivers are cowboys/girls thats a load of shit i have seen far more car drivers that break the rules more then any truck driver believe me and 99.9% of them shouldn’t have a license at all
Love your work there are more idiots in cars than in trucks
Well said mate some people have no idea if it wasn’t for social media and technology no one who have a clue what we really deal with on a day to day basis, thanks for sticking up for the truckies wish there more of yas have a good one mate and to your husband drive safe Cobba, people need stop being keyboard warriors and start living a old school normal life where life was enjoyable….
yes well said I travel many roads with my work and no I not a truck driver but car drivers are a big offenders also I sit on the 100 when you have P plates go around you so I think car drivers need more education
The number of TRUCK drivers compared to CAR drivers on the road ratio of IDIOTS leans way towards TRUCKS . Daily overtaken numerous times TRUCKS me sitting 104 GPS speed in 100 .Tailgating is also a big problem .Saving fuel and being on time seems to be the priority not ROAD SAFTY………………………
Most trucks are speed limited to 98km/h
Iam a truckies wife and would prefer to travel along with trucks rather than the idiot car drivers
Funny qld cops could no stop it because it was speeding as they are not allow to speed or start a high speed pursuit
By there trucam camera would have got a lovely photo the driver will get in the mail!
Why can’t they be speed limited by diff ratios???
Why not speed limit with diff ratios