02-01-2019, 08:49 AM
A great photo. I trust the driver was not intending any descents on wet roads!. Trucks have come a long way from being local delivery devices competing with horse and cart. Even the relatively light Model T ton truck was geared for little more than 20 mph. The legal speed limit for trucks on normal “single carriageway” (lane each way) roads was just 40mph in UK from 1962 until very recently, previously only 30 mph. Sources unclear but seems it may have been just 20 mph to quite modern times, so there must have been a lot of very slow trucks, as hopefully that one was.