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Now that we're on topic. Which vehicle make do you stop more often. This isn't to generalize a certain group, but to see what your experience shows.

My stepbrother is a cop and he says he stops more Hondas than any other makes, but the make that he sees gets stopped for the highest speeds over are BMWs.
 
Which vehicle make do you stop more often.
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I don't know if there is an answer to that question. I can see why your stepbrother would say Honda, the reason being that there are so many on the roads these days and it seems to be the choice of cars for a lot of the teens. If I had to take a guess I would say Oldsmobile Cutless if I'm around town on the county roads and probably more SUV's on the interstate. I guess it really would depend on the type of area the radar is being operated in. I don't see many BMW's around the low income areas. I don't think it's like it was in the old days where the police stop all red sport cars lol.
 
His reports were solely on highway stops. To clarify, he says that overall, he stops more hondas on average of 10 miles over to 25 miles over. But the cars he seems to stop going excess 25mph over tends to average at BMWs.
 
One thing that you/we all should be aware of.
If you consistently speed, you are going to get a ticket.
When I travelled on the road, I ran a radar detector, a CB radio, and a police scanner. My wife said she thought she was riding with Dr. Doom.:)
The only thing all that equipment will guarantee you is that if you are stopped, you will get a ticket, not a warning.

Charles
 
Wow. I did not expect such a large response on this topic. I think someone asked what the number was to the right? That was my speed. The speed to the right is my patrol speed. I was traveling the opposite direction (eastbound), when I checked the car @ 106 traveling west.
Someone also mentioned the ground speed on the GPS. Yup, the ground speed is 0. I was stopped when I took the picture. The GPS is not tied to the radar in any way.
Someone also asked about radar detectors. When I am traveling with my radar in transmit mode, radar detectors will pick me up from a long way away. If I suddenly start transmitting and the radar detector goes off, like Jared said, it's too late - gotcha!
I didn't have any pics to share today. I was at the trooper office most of the day, working on paperwork and getting my patrol car serviced.
 
Cops too often get a bad rap. With the exception of 1, I deserved any ticket I ever received. I once had the rare opportunity of a cop letting me off when radared at 105 m.p.h. He told me I was an idiot and I told him he was right. He ended up writing me a warning. Truth is stranger than fiction. I was all alone on a two lane highway early one Sunday morning. There wasn't a soul on the road but he was off to the side of it. :) I was dressed and on my way to church. He said it looked like I was in a hurry to get there.
 
Hey hwypatrolman, if you saw a car driving down the highway not speeding and you were parked and noticed his tint was too dark would you pull him over or just let him pass?
 
Sounds like someone has 35% all around :lol:

I don't know if this kind officer would but I have been in cars where we were pulled over (thankfully not my car)

"J"
 
Kinda funny you should ask the tint question. I stopped a car that was "blacked out" with 5% all the way around this afternoon and wrote her a ticket. If it's really dark, limo tint - 5% and I can't see in at all - yup I will stop them soley for that and probably write a ticket.
The law in Alabama is no darker than 32% on the front windows with a tolerance of +/- 3% and no tint on the windshield extending down further than 6 inches from the top of the windshield.
As far as being let off for 105 mph. It would be hard to explain in court if someone came to court and had issued a subpoena for that officers records for that particular day and he had issued a ticket to someone going - say 90 mph. My question to the officer would be, why did you write ME for 90 mph in a 70, but you let someone else go that was traveling 105 mph? Did you write me the ticket because you didn't like my car? You got something against me personally? etc... What would the officers response be while testifying in court? How could you explain writing someone else a ticket that was doing something less serious than the last guy you wrote a warning to? A lot of officer discretion has been thrown out the window these days, unfortunatley.
 
Hey Hwy,
Don't rememebr if I welcomed you to the site or not (too lazy to check the thread), but welcome. Kinda cool to be able to ask questions from the "other" side of the law...
 
My question to you is, how slow would I have to be going to get stopped for impeding traffic flow? Of course I realize that this depends on many factors - weather and road condition, traffic density, how wide the road is, etc. Reason I ask is because I've been getting down to 50-55MPH cruise on a 6 lane super highway (65MPH limit, 70-80+ flow) and while I don't notice me putting anybody else in danger, I could see how I could get stopped for that. For the most part everybody gets around me without causing anybody else any grief.
 
GearHead_1 said:
Cops too often get a bad rap. With the exception of 1, I deserved any ticket I ever received. I once had the rare opportunity of a cop letting me off when radared at 105 m.p.h. He told me I was an idiot and I told him he was right. He ended up writing me a warning. Truth is stranger than fiction. I was all alone on a two lane highway early one Sunday morning. There wasn't a soul on the road but he was off to the side of it. :) I was dressed and on my way to church. He said it looked like I was in a hurry to get there.
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GH1,
You aren't alone.On 2 seperate occassions I was charged with much less than the 135+ mph I was actually doing by 2 seperate officers.Both times I was street racing on deserted roads,well,with the exception of the cars I was racing and the officers.
Both tickets were still expensive but it beat the alternative of losing my license for several years.Older and wiser now I find that the speed limit gets me where I want to be just fine.
 
I have been busy working in a construction zone the last 2 days and have some interesting pictures from the last 2 days. I took a picture of the speed limit signs that are posted every .75 miles augmented by large flashing signs. There were also crews out working and there are vertical panels on both sides of the road, which makes the road more narrow than usual.
 

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By the way, no one was injured in the van. We are still unclear as to what started the fire. The 105 mph in a 55 was a 2006 Dodge Magnum. A male driving with his family (wife and child) going to Mississippi. The 94 was a 1998 Toyota Camry going to the airport in birmingham.
 
^ Wow. These people are nuts. If I do 75 for a sustained period of time, just keeping up with traffic, I'm worried as all heck that I'll get a ticket. Never in a million years would I do a sustained 105 mph by myself in my WRX, let alone in a station wagon with my family. Good example he's setting for his kids.... dolt.
 
BenjiBoy650 said:
My question to you is, how slow would I have to be going to get stopped for impeding traffic flow? Of course I realize that this depends on many factors - weather and road condition, traffic density, how wide the road is, etc. Reason I ask is because I've been getting down to 50-55MPH cruise on a 6 lane super highway (65MPH limit, 70-80+ flow) and while I don't notice me putting anybody else in danger, I could see how I could get stopped for that. For the most part everybody gets around me without causing anybody else any grief.
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Does your state have a minimum speed limit on the interstate. Here it is 45MPH and it is posted below the speed limit signs. Even if it isn't posted on the road, it might be in your driving handbook.
 
hwypatrolman said:
As far as being let off for 105 mph. It would be hard to explain in court if someone came to court and had issued a subpoena for that officers records for that particular day and he had issued a ticket to someone going - say 90 mph. My question to the officer would be, why did you write ME for 90 mph in a 70, but you let someone else go that was traveling 105 mph? Did you write me the ticket because you didn't like my car? You got something against me personally? etc... What would the officers response be while testifying in court? How could you explain writing someone else a ticket that was doing something less serious than the last guy you wrote a warning to? A lot of officer discretion has been thrown out the window these days, unfortunatley.
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Hwy, here I have never heard of anyone getting a written warning, they're all verbal. The officer says on the radio "(his car number) Traffic (location of the stop)". They never say how fast they were going so there is no way anyone would be able to know that information except the officer.


I have an unrelated question. A while back (when I was very immature) I was coming back to Missouri from Illinois. I passed a group of cars (6 or so) that were on the right and for the next 2+ miles it was straight and there were no cars in sight. I floored it. As I was crossing the bridge into Missouri I was doing just over 130MPH. I looked in my mirror and saw this with it's emergency lights on, but no siren, a distance back. A completely unmarked Illinois State Trooper that was within the group of cars I passed.
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I pulled over right away, but I was already in Missouri. The trooper ask why I was going that fast, I told him my friend and I were just trying to get back to school and that I know it was stupid. He said thankfully for me I didn't get up to over 130 until I got on the Missouri side, but he had clocked me doing 121 in a 60 on the Illinois side. I thought for sure that is what I was going to get the ticket for. He ask when my last ticket was. I lied and told him never, even though I had gotten one the week before. Like I said, young and stupid. He then gave me back my license and told me it was my lucky day without even running it.

My friend and I looked at each other in disbelief. So my question is, could the trooper have written me a ticket being we had crossed the state line?

I did think it was a little weird he never turned on his siren though. It's like he wanted to run his car up to a high speed instead of getting us to stop. He was probably surprised his sports car was being pulled on by a Maxima.
 
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