Simviation Forum - The fastest tractor in the west

Jan 19^th, 2006 at 3:01pm

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Speed camera bosses have apologised to a farmer after they tried to fine him for doing 85 miles per hour in a tractor.
Steve Crossman, who farms in Wiltshire, was puzzled when he received a ticket saying he had been snapped by a camera in Wales.
But he was even more surprised when he realised that he was being fined for speeding in his tractor.
With a top speed of 26 miles per hour it would take Mr Crossman's tractor more than four hours just to cover the distance from his farm in Horningsham to Abergarwed, south Wales where the offence took place.
The farmer contacted camera bosses in south Wales to protest that not only was the tractor incapable of racking up such a speed but he had never taken it over the Severn Bridge.
The Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership quickly admitted that they had misread one letter in the registration plate on the film and had got the wrong vehicle.
They apologised and immediately retracted the ticket.
Mr Crossman told BBC Wales: "It's a good tractor, but not that good. It can just about get up to 26mph, but that's downhill, with a following wind and with no trailer on the back. There's no way it could get close to 85mph."
Now the driver of the car that was actually clocked on the A465 near Neath will escape prosecution because it is too late to issue another ticket.
A speed camera partnership spokeswoman said that the mistake was being investigated.

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Reply #1 - Jan 19^th, 2006 at 3:07pm

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So just how many of these mistakes have been made. Undecided

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Reply #2 - Jan 19^th, 2006 at 3:43pm

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Every now and then a tractor gets a ticket for doing 80 odd miles per hour. Ususally ends up being a case of stolen numberplates. Tongue

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Reply #3 - Jan 19^th, 2006 at 6:40pm

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Lol - I thought it was hilarious. Yet again though Mark you beat me to it! Grin

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Reply #4 - Jan 20^th, 2006 at 4:58am

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Big Volvo BM (and Deutz) can do 60kmh...

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Reply #5 - Jan 21^st, 2006 at 12:02am

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Big Volvo BM (and Deutz) can do 60kmh...

37.284 MPH! Wooh! Grin

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Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership said it had misread a number plate and has apologised. The real speeding driver escaped a ticket.
"It's a good tractor, but not that good. It can just about get up to 26mph, but that's downhill, with a following wind and with no trailer on the back. There's no way it could get close to 85mph."

The camera snapped a car but the number plate was misread

He rang up to let the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership know his six-year-old John Deere 6910 tractor had never been over the Severn Bridge into Wales.

"The lady that I spoke to found it quite amusing and said they would investigate it. A couple of days later they phoned through and said they had misread the number plate."

It turned out the letters FOT on the car which was photographed by the roadside camera had been mistaken for FDT, the letters on Mr Crossman's tractor.

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Reply #6 - Jan 23^rd, 2006 at 1:32am

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a granny was once fined for 635 kmh in a VW bug.
only when she took the picture of her "offence" to the newspapers the police retracted

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Reply #7 - Jan 23^rd, 2006 at 8:59pm

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a granny was once fined for 635 kmh in a VW bug.
only when she took the picture of her "offence" to the newspapers the police retracted

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Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2006 at 12:14pm

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You never seen "Herbie" ??? Grin

I have. It was driving round Cambourne the other day. Grin

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Reply #9 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 5:33pm

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We have 134 tractors here at my company. All the company owned trucks are 'governed' down to between 80 and 65 mph. Our 'Owner-Operator' tractors are not. It's nothing to see a big rig out here on the Interstate 10 doing 80mph+. I've even seen an owner operator in a Peterbilt doing triple digits.

Over here, "Peterbilt" trucks are considered the Harley Davidson of trucks. Kenworth, Volvo, Western Star, Mack, and International are also popular. The work horse of the industry is defintely Freightliner though which is usually cheaper than the others.

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Reply #10 - Feb 4^th, 2006 at 7:16am

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Reminds me of the time my mother got pulled over for allegedly showing a radar reading of 80mph... on a hairpin offramp... in her Gremlin!!! Cheesy

!! She was a pretty bad driver, but... come on!!!
I think the trooper just pulled her over because she was a fine-looking woman. Grin

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