lowering my tyre pressures???

You get Douglas?

True enough :-) - and that email about tyre wear is just crackers. Almost worth an accidental forward to the HSE....

laters,

Depending on the type of driving, in reality it should make next to bugger all difference. I'm a multidrop owner driver (subcontractor), and sticking to speed limits or not makes *very* little difference to the time it takes to do my deliveries. What *does* make a difference is planning the round (and loading the van accordingly) to take into account residential areas full of commuters that are often gone by 7:30-8am, shops that don't open until 9:30am (and the staff don't roll in 'til a couple of minutes before opening), businesses that do have people there nice and early, traffic jams, etc etc.

If I've planned it properly (which I do, because the quicker I get it done the longer lunch break I get), then I'll be stopping every minute or two anyway, and speeding will barely make a blind bit of difference to the time it takes.

OTOH, Douglas does deliveries about 500 miles the other side of the arse end of nowhere, so it might be different for him!

I might actually be better off if I did get paid in peanuts.

Douglas

True, but at the end of the day the legal limit was set at 1.6mm for a reason - if they didn't think it was safe to have that as a limit, they'd have set it higher. Granted, the more tread, the more grip in the wet due to better displacement of water, but at the end of the day they've decided a limit, and that's that, otherwise I'll just start repeating myself and going around in circles.

Not many blowouts 2psi under at 40mph, no :)

Tyre life will suffer though.

I just have skinny little 265s :(

Well if the tyres dip below the legal limit, there is a big difference in wet weather performance. Up until that point, as far as I know tyres grip just fine, wet or dry.

My current ones didn't grip properly for the first 100 miles or possibly more.

Is there any benefit to early replacement?

Isn't that a contradiction in terms ?

:)

Oh yeah, I forgot that speed limits vary :) Yep, it is a bit silly then !

Why is this group full of white-van-men ?

The only two I know in the entire world, are here !

Heh. Though calling my van "white" would be a bit wrong at the moment, given how long it is since it's been cleaned!

Never play cards with a guy called Slim... Never trust someone who says "at the end of the day" in every sentence... :)