Sat navs in France

Did i just read that not only do you have to carry a breathalizer kit when touring in France but that sat navs with speed camera warnings are illegal and can be fined up to 1000 euros

From the 1st July a breathaliser kit has to be carried, cost €1 in Roady stores. Sat Nav is legal but must not display radar info, this may or may not be law yet, I have not seen the definitive implementation or start date.
The breathaliser kit is a typical piece of political nonsense, if you are a **** artist you are not likey to self breathalise and the cops will do it for you if you get caught. Soon there will be no room for luggage with all the junk the polito's want us to carry.

I would add that in some departments all radar warning signs have been removed and on the autoroutes they now have cameras hidden in the armco barriers.
If you go to www.viamichelin.fr and put in a route, it will show all fixed radar points if it is still legal to show them.

Datatek said:

From the 1st July a breathaliser kit has to be carried, cost €1 in Roady stores. Sat Nav is legal but must not display radar info, this may or may not be law yet, I have not seen the definitive implementation or start date.
The breathaliser kit is a typical piece of political nonsense, if you are a **** artist you are not likey to self breathalise and the cops will do it for you if you get caught. Soon there will be no room for luggage with all the junk the polito's want us to carry.

I would add that in some departments all radar warning signs have been removed and on the autoroutes they now have cameras hidden in the armco barriers.
If you go to www.viamichelin.fr and put in a route, it will show all fixed radar points if it is still legal to show them.

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Not really much point if you're on foreign plates... they can't do you, can they?

Clarky130 said:

Not really much point if you're on foreign plates... they can't do you, can they?

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It's an on the spot fine, they will even escort you to a cash machine to get the money, if you don't pay they may impound your car, if you are lippy you may even find yourself in the back of a van on the way to the cells The Gendarmes don't mess about over here.
A couple of guys on the Cannonball run found to their cost that the law here is pretty instant, one lost his Ferrari, the other a Porsche after they were clocked at 200kmh +, supposedly the cars were crushed

hi keith , i agree with you here the fkin condoms (gendarmes) fined me 300 francs once for talkin on my c.b. over on the n10 near vivon truckstop , a few yrs ago and a mate of mine got fined 250 francs for breaking the 10.pm rule on a sunday night running whilst driving a tautliner not a fridge ..plus pepe at the border down at the cabbage patch near bordeux use to fine mw 30 francs every week for any bull**** he could come up with ,,i.e. his coffee money , little bastard went to jail for it but was let out quickly cos his brother wasd the local mayor .... cheers mozz

I once got stopped in a country lane not far from Clermont Ferrand in the middle of the night.

Proper France countryside, about maybe 1 car through every two hours, they had set up a full roadblock with barriers and everything, stopped me, breathalyzed me, checked documents, searched car, the lot. I was a UK citizen, living in Amsterdam, with a Dutch registered car in France. I can speak no French, them no English, it took forever to get going again!

Can't believe they'd bother in what amounted to a Cornish Lane, but they were very officious about it.

mozz smith said:

hi keith , i agree with you here the fkin condoms (gendarmes) fined me 300 francs once for talkin on my c.b. over on the n10 near vivon truckstop , a few yrs ago and a mate of mine got fined 250 francs for breaking the 10.pm rule on a sunday night running whilst driving a tautliner not a fridge ..plus pepe at the border down at the cabbage patch near bordeux use to fine mw 30 francs every week for any bull**** he could come up with ,,i.e. his coffee money , little bastard went to jail for it but was let out quickly cos his brother wasd the local mayor .... cheers mozz

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French... the most corrupt nation on this earth, bar none. Where do you think Africa learned it from???

MrGorsky said:

I once got stopped in a country lane not far from Clermont Ferrand in the middle of the night.

Proper France countryside, about maybe 1 car through every two hours, they had set up a full roadblock with barriers and everything, stopped me, breathalyzed me, checked documents, searched car, the lot. I was a UK citizen, living in Amsterdam, with a Dutch registered car in France. I can speak no French, them no English, it took forever to get going again!

Can't believe they'd bother in what amounted to a Cornish Lane, but they were very officious about it.

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If you're ever being delayed/upset about the French just think "Agincourt..Agincourt"

Clarky130 said:

French... the most corrupt nation on this earth, bar none. Where do you think Africa learned it from???

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Nah the UK leave the French standing when it comes to corruption