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maybe its some sort of escort vehicle we used to have simular signs on our landrovers when we escorted tanks from one base to another on the road.....that said though they should really remove the sign if they are not actually escorting at the time
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I'd think this a bit of a joke and an attempt to keep drivers a safe distance away. Reminds me of how a friend at Uni stopped his food being stolen from the fridge in halls - his dad ran a pig farm so he "borrowed" a label saying "boar sem*n" (sorry swear filter) and stuck it to a plastic container. The problem went away.
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Could it have been a driving school car with th 'L' plates removed?
What! I hear you say. A C4. Improbable, but possible.
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I think you are right Tom. Learner car with the plates off. I believe it is a requirement to remove them if the car is being driven by a qualified driver. Although I imagine that is often ignored in the realities of a busy instructors day. Might be wrong.
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Ooer....does this apply to a private car if you're teaching someone to drive? The reason I ask is I'm teaching my stepson to drive (in his own car) but if I drive it on my own could I be in trouble if I don't remove the L plates (my daily commute includes motorway driving). They're the self-adhesive type, if they were the magnetic ones it wouldn't be much of a problem
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Yes, you should remove them - I got ticked off by the Instructor when he collected his pupil - he had noticed me driving with the plates up without the learner on board!
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I think it probably is, but I don't suppose it's seen as a hanging offence !
;-)
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The hanging doesn't bother me too much, it's the drawing and quartering that hurts ;-)
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After passing my test with BSM many years ago I had a motorway lesson. The instructor made a big thing about showing L plates on the motorway (it's illegal). The whole roof mounted BSM sign had to come off and go in the boot.
Driving between lessons he kept it on but on the motorway it had to go.
I think the L plates have to come off whenever the driver is not a learner though. But on motorways you're more likely to be stopped for fairly obvious reasons.
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>>I think it probably is, but I don't suppose it's seen as a hanging offence !
No, but I'm sure "they" could rustle up 3 points and a £60 fine if they stopped to think about it!
Edited by Manatee on 30/11/2008 at 22:36
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I think the reason for the BSM instructor removing the roof mounted sign on a motorway was more to do with the likelyhood of it being blown off at motorway speeds than anything else.
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Bathtub Tom, you could be right ;-) It was only held on with magnets.
Having said that I have heard of learner drivers accidentally starting to drive on to a motorway and seen by a police car. They force the instructor to drive to the next junction. But yeh the sign would have probably flown off at 70mph.
Still illegal to drive on a motorway with L plates - I think. Someone like Westpig would know.
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No but I'm sure "they" could rustle up 3 points and a £60 fine if they stopped to think about it!
Aye, you can't beat the good old " sledgehammer to crack a nut " approach
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