Raising the Motorway limit to 80mph

The government has announced today that they will be looking at reviewing the current speed limit on the UK Motorways of 70mph, and will consider raising it to 80mph.

Their reasons for doing so are due to improved car safety the risk to life at 80mph if a crash happens is now reduced. Also that millions will be saved every year because people get to where they want to go quicker.

Firstly, WELL DONE for thinking about this, and not before time!  However, its not going to make any difference.  People will still drive at 90 - 100mph, there will be no difference to journey times, all that will happen is that the number of people getting stopped for speeding on a motorway will be reduced, meaning the police forces in the UK will have to think of another way to catch people and make money, otherwise the government will need to either cut their budgets, or raise our taxes in some other way.  It will come back to bite us in the end!

The government has also said that its only able to think about this now because its got hot on uninsured and drunk drivers.  Yes, I am sure they have - They can now take their £50 cars off them -  but that's not to say they do not exist anymore. There is always going to be some monkey who will decide car insurance is too expensive, or they've just had a few pints and they've only got to drive a few miles.  If they got hot on people who cant drive, and should be off the roads - then they could open up the motorways to an "any speed you want to" policy!  Think about how much money that would save!  Winchester to Portsmouth in 10 minutes in a Lamborghini! Yes please !

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Insurance Renewal Stupidity

On phoning up to cancel my renewal following my earlier victory of getting my monthly payments of £60 down to £27 - the person I spoke to wanted to ask why I was cancelling.  "I don't like the colour of your logo" - is what i felt like answering, why do you think i don't want to renew? Its obvious its going to be due to cost, what other reason could it be for?

She was adamant that she could match the cheaper price I'd got - until that is i mentioned it was £27, and that i'd saved £369 a year by not renewing with them.  She knew full well she couldn't match that and cancelled by renewal.  However... she obviously did want to get my renewal cheaper than the price first quote - so why don't they quote the cheaper price at renewal then? Surely that is the time when someone will think "screw this, i can get it cheaper elsewhere!" rather than phoning them up to ask if they would like to make it cheaper!?  Its crazy sand they are ultimately just costing themselves customers.

Do yourself a favour, switch insurance companies at the time of renewal - you could save yourself a lorry load of cash.  Well, maybe a small lorry, but a lorry load none the less! 

If you have no idea what im banging on about. look at my earlier post.  http://drivingroadrage.blogspot.com/

Car Insurance doesn't need to be expensive!

My Car insurance renewal cane through this last week, and its gone up from £50 to £60 a month! Now, i know what you are thinking.  It serves me right for doing handbrake turns past police cars!  But.. surprisingly i have a clean license, with 8 years + NCB.  So why has it gone up so much!?

A quick investigate later, and I've managed to get it down from £60 per month to £27 a month.  That's a saving of £396!! 

The worrying thing is a lot of people don't bother switching insurance companies, thinking its too much hassle and they wont save much anyway.  Think again!!

I used quidco to make the above saving, and so i will actually get another £25 in cash-back on top of the above saving.  Take a look : http://www.quidco.com/user/1108075/   Its free to sign up, and you can definitely make savings, as shown above!

PS.  Hand brake turns past police cars are not recommended, unless you are certain they are asleep!

Drunk Driver Alert

During the past week Ive seen a handful of drivers who are potentially drunk. The worrying thing is that one of these was at 9am in the morning! All of them have been swerving over the road, going way too slow for the road conditions and not having any road awareness whatsoever.  In fact i'm pretty sure our two 10 month only kittens would be able to drive a car better than all of these people put together. Are cat driving licences a thing of the future?

The police are generally pretty good at sniffing out the secret vodka drinkers, and getting them banned. BUT... the chances are that the people who are consistently drunk behind the wheel aren't actually going to care if they have their licence taken away. The next day they'll get in the car after having a few too many cans of floor polish and do it all over again.  What is there to stop them?  Sorry sir, you're banned again - even though you've been banned 15 times already. "WHO'S A NAUGHTY BOY THEN... DONT DO IT AGAIN!"

Something has to change. If you are caught blatantly and knowingly drunk behind the wheel you should be made to do something really nasty. Such as working in McDonalds for an example or even worse KFC.