Speed limit

I have read all the posts on here and my opinion is change the wording from "5 mph" to "walking pace" or "1st gear must be used". After all, no one will drive faster than 5 mph if their engine is revving hard!

After all, no one will drive faster than 5 mph if their engine is revving hard!

An auto-box will just change up.

After all, no one will drive faster than 5 mph if their engine is revving hard!

An auto-box will just change up.

Not if you tell it not to .... ie you can lock it in 1st if you choose to

I am sitting in the evening sun on a large site in France. There are no posted speed limits and no rules have been issued. And you know, there are no problems, no deaths , no aggro, and no accidents happening. Why do you guys at home have such problems? 

Can any of us honestly put our hand on our hearts and say we've never once exceeded 5 mph on site? Really?

I'm pretty careful about following rules and I agree that stopping speeding is the one rule I'd like to see upheld above all others but I dare say at some stage I might have gone over 5 mph, no matter how carefully I drive.

Seems a lot of "holier than thou" nonsense on here, though! 

I have inadvertantly, and was challanged once by a warden

1st gear is the only gear in a manual car which you can go 5mph, it matters not if your in a car or motorhome. Cant comment about an automatic vehicle though.

Just come back from Germany and noticed that even though there were no signs, drivers were keeping in 1st gear and clearly not going over walking pace and i mean everyone was doing this. So, why can't we do this here?

Sometimes I walk in front of the van pointing out possible pitches while OH drives, so I know we are not guilty of speeding 

Do you carry a red flag?

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Mark, surely part of the problem is that a fixed arrival time will ensure that a glut of arrivals occurs exactly at 12.00 even when the site may be partly empty. A less rigid time would help arrivals to arrive in dribs and drabs

Terry, you are quite right but no matter what arrival time you have, you will get early arrivals. I don't know what the answer is to be honest...

.. where we are staying,one couple are off today there is a notice on the office door advising the wardens are. Cleaning the toilet blocks until aprox 1200 hrs when we went out at 1115hrs there were 2 mv and 3cvans on the arr road

I was monitoring my speed (on sat nav screen) this week on site and lowest my car will go is 7.9mph unless I click down to L on the auto gear box.  7.9 seemed much slower than the vast majority of passers by.

 How about a few of those speed monitors with the smiley or not smiley face.  That might alert a few drivers as to how much over 5mph they are going?   With school holidays coming up no one wants a child to be hurt.