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[05omegav6]

They install those yellow half arch posts for the temporary ones round here, but have seen blue versions of the same elsewhere which are permanent 

They are for traffic monitoring (eg, Traffic Master), not for recording your speed.

Traffic monitoring cameras are mounted at the side of the road, with a single camera facing down the road and a single camera facing up it.

Average speed cameras are mounted on a half arch over the nearside edge of the road, and have two or more cameras all facing the oncoming traffic and are either yellow (temp) or blue (permanent).

Hiding behind/alongside trucks is a gamble, as you only need to be seen by two cameras to get an average speed. The speed can easily be measured between any two single cameras or over the entire stretch of all the cameras.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Don't speed simples!!!    Says the man with 6 points and a Speed Awareness course under his belt!   

[r1]

3 options
1 don't speed
2 rent a p/o box and regester your car to it
3 change a couple of didgits on your number plate if stopped its a 30 pound fine no points

[Rog]

In France you have to pay to use most of the big motorways that are privately run.

You stop and take a ticket at the start, and insert the ticket and pay when you leave. The amount you pay relates to the distance.

If the time taken is too short for the distance, I've heard that you can get nicked. It's never actually happened to me though. So if you've been tanking along the A26 from Calais, stop for a coffee before the next Peage.

[omega3000]

In France you have to pay to use most of the big motorways that are privately run.

You stop and take a ticket at the start, and insert the ticket and pay when you leave. The amount you pay relates to the distance.

If the time taken is too short for the distance, I've heard that you can get nicked. It's never actually happened to me though. So if you've been tanking along the A26 from Calais, stop for a coffee before the next Peage.

Soon to be implemented in the uk 

[horsecow]

Encountered loads of these on saturday on a run from cairnryan up to glasgow on A77. I normally just reset the average speed on trip comp. at every new camera and monitor my speed that way. If you have to go through a village/town it takes your avg speed way down so you can then do whatever speed you like until the next one as long as your avg speed stays below the stated. I have always done this on that particular rd and never got caught once. Touch wood!!