New Speeding fines for Pickup Truck Drivers

Friday 03 February 2012 | By Colin WingfieldBack to Blog

New Speeding fines for Pickup Truck Drivers

Proposals have been put forward by the Justice Minister, Ken Clarke, to raise speeding fines from their current level of £60 to £100 in order to provide a fund for victim support payments.

Speeding fines have been fixed at £60 for the last ten years and are often coupled with drivers facing a license endorsement of three points. The proposed new £100 fines will cover similar motoring offences such as running red lights.

2010 saw central government funding of speed cameras cut significantly, with the coalition government stating it was going to end the 'war on motorists'.

As a result, many local authorities have decided to remove them, with several regions scrapping the ubiquitous yellow cameras.

However, the majority of police authorities continue to use mobile speed cameras within vans, to catch drivers of speeding vans, pickup trucks and cars.

Speed cameras were initially introduced twenty years ago and are widely thought to over £100 million in fines each year.

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