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rocko

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Let me start by saying that I haven't had a speeding ticket in about 6 or 7 years. Now I'm talking about hyways here, not school or play grounds or even rurall areas where I always try to stay at or below the limit. This is on a double wide divided hyway. US equivilant would probabley be an Interstate. I am converting kilometers to miles as most of you are more familiar with that, so hopefully I get # right (5 MPH = 8 KPH) or (1 MPH = 1.6 KPH). I'm not a saint and I normally will set my cruize control at about 5 MPH above legal limit and this seems to be well within what the police officers in this neck of the woods think is acceptable since I've never been ticketed by a officer at this speed. I some times pass others and am also passed by some. Well the other day I had a doctors apointment in the city, 3 hr drive each way. On the way home I was running a little late as I had another engagment back home and I figured I needed to make up some time. I do not have a radar detector and don't even know if they would be effective with todays technolagy and I guess that's my first question. Do any of you own and use a detector and find that it is affective in saving your butt when speeding. Anyway's what I did was wait for a driver to pass me and then stayed about a 1/2 mile (Within sight) behind him matching his speed and figuring that if there was radar ahead he would be pulled over and I should be OK. Well this guy was in a big hurry and exceeding the posted limit by 23 to 28 MPH. Over a 3rd of the limit faster. Can't imagine an officer would have over looked this excessive speed if he had clocked it. I will say that I didn't really at any time feel in danger of losing controll. Traffic was very thin and we didn't pass many vechicles other than oncoming. (Remember divided hyway with verry wide mediam) so I assume most traffic was also moving right along. So second question is do any of you speed and if so what do you think is safe and how strict are police in your area on inforcement of the posted limit. Know I will probably get my a$$ chewed off here by some and that's fine. Not promotting speeding here I did what I did and relize concequences of excessive speed can be deadly. Just wondering if my normal speed is ABNORMAL. Am I that old guy everyone else is cussing out for going to slow. If your gonna cuss at me at least try to keep it civil. Thanks Rocko.
 
When I exceed, I try to stay at or below 10% over. i.e. with 55mph limit, I'll go 60.5, 70mph limit, I'll do 77... That is if I decide i need to go faster than the speed limit.
 
Last speeding ticket I got was in Wisconsin back in 99, rollin home on I 90 and just crusin and not paying attention. Bought the Judge a new desk, chair and hammer!! I still watch it, like you said, always the limit or under in town and I ABSOLUTELY won't do more that 5 over. I don't want to be the old guy holding up traffic either, but I just am not in that much of a hurry anymore. They drive like there nuts here in Minn. There pretty good here about speeding, but you will get nailed when you least expect it.
 
Down here the "posted limits" are considered to be a reasonable and prudent speed for good conditions. Any problems and one is "expected" to reduce speed proportionally.

The margin that a lot of officers allow probably is because in court cases nailing it to the wire gets thrown out especially when varying terrain is concerned, or the officer would be with a "customer" who was going 1 mile over the posted limit while half a dozen going 20 over blow past him/her, or the officer would be limited to court duty and not have time to get back out on the "beat".

I was called for jury duty on one occasion whereas a young man with an attorney was defending a speeding charge. It was on a flat stretch of Interstate highway and in the wee hours of the morning, zero traffic, unlimited view, and fair weather. He had a sporty mill and was letting the ponies have their head.

His defense was that he was traveling at a reasonable and prudent speed for the current conditions.

I didn't get selected because in the juror selection process it became obvious they want sheep that only listen to what's presented at the trial and don't want any one that thinks for themselves......called a jury of your PEERS!!!!!!! Scary!!!!!!!

What really scares me is that we are supposed to have the best legal system in the world. Leaves a lot to the imagination as to what happens elsewhere.
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Getting back to "Tractor Talk" to keep this "legal", down heah if you display your triangular slow moving vehicle plackard on the rear of your tractor or implement, you can use public roads in the course of your farming business without fear of harassment for no vehicle license.

Mark
 
In Texas...most DPS units will not stop you if you are not more than 3 MPH above the limit. Also they will not usally give more than a warning if you stop immediatly. If they have to follow you very far expect a citation for speeding. In Oklahoma they have a no tolarance rule even if you are only over one MPH!
 
In Alabama the speed limit appears to be a suggestion only. Several years ago was taking my dad to funeral in Georgia. Knew it would be an all day trip. He was 85-86 at the time. Got on i20 in b'ham and a car passed us like you mentioned. Dad said he bet they had radar. All I needed to know. Followed about 1 mile running from 85-90. On the return followed a truck doing the same. He always said that if they did not want them to go that fast they would put the gas pedal closer to the floor.
 
I set the cruise at about 5miles or a little below. I also have had a ticket for going 3 miles overbut thats another story. Also when did it become legit to pass on the right side of the road. Here in eastern Iowa it has become the norm not the exception. Cops too!
 
Here in Iowa you are usually safe running five over the posted speed limit on open highways. In town in my neck of the woods we'd better not be over by more than 1-2 MPH. Jim (never had a speeding ticket purely by luck) Don't ask me about DOT violations!
 
Here in upstate New York on some of the major roads I would always keep at 73 in a 65 and 65 in a 55..never had an issue going by radar traps..at the homestead on a busy rural road..sheriff would set up in the driveway..set his radar at 61 and that was in a 40MPH zone..he would write tickets all day long..on another note..traveling to Toronto on the QEW there are signs stating if you are caught at 50 klics above the limit which is 100k that your vehicle will be impounded on the spot..but I have gone past radar at 100 mph which is 160 klics and they didn't do much other than look up at me. I think it depends on which side of the bed the officer got out of and whether they have had their doughnuts yet........
 
i honestly believe the slower driver on the hyway doing 50mph is putting the ordinary drivers in more danger than the faster driver. so many times i have experienced a long line up behind these slower drivers. then the passing starts, and everyone is passing everyone. i like to travel slightly faster as in the 10 prcent range and just stay away from the conjestion as much as possible i feel safer that way. its not the speed i am worried about, its the drivers experience that counts in my books.
i will take a ride and feel more comfortable with an experienced driver doing 70mph, that has drank three beers, that is talking on the phone and drinking coffee on a busy hyway way before taking a ride from an 18 yr. old doing 60mph that has just got his license and only made 6 trip to town.
 
On a dry road 80-85 seems to be OK on I75 but the other Ky. roads hold closer to 76-80 MPH, always getting passed but haven't had a ticket--yet 55 years driveing.
 
driving between St Joe Mo and Makin devided highway doing the speed limit. 5 cars passed me doing well over speed limit and passing each other thinking that cop couldnt get them all. Little later saw flashing red lights in rear mirror patrol passed me flying. Went about 2 or 3 miles saw bunch of cars with flashinn lights thought wreck, no the patrol had all five of those cars pulled over. So it aint safe to expect that if you are in a bunch you wont get caught
 
I don't speed. Usually I have nowhere to go, and all day to get there. With that said, I was setting in a local diner one day, and overheard a couple complaining loudly about a speeding ticket they just got, and how they were targeted for being out of state, and it was just a speed trap. All the locals were looking at them, and I just turned to them and asked, "Were you speeding?" Their answer, "Only 5 miles over". Everyone just started laughing at them. Obviously not raised to understand the law. It only applies at times, and you can fudge it if you want.
David
 
well heck red .LOL . thats is my condition most the time ,, come on along with me and i will chat with you instead of the cell phone
 
I don't speed. It's 23 miles from my dive on a state highway to the county seat. At 55 MPH thats 26 minutes. At 60 it's 23. That's not accounting for other traffic that may keep you from going 60. Average traffic stop is 10 minutes or more plus the fine. Some how that just doesn't make sense. You really got to be going a long ways for speeding to really make much of a difference in travel time.

I drove a lot between Ft Riley KS and my home. Right at 600 miles. At an average speed of 70 with no stops that's about 8:35 travel time. Go 75 you save a whopping 35 minutes.

Here in west MN most cops will give you a least 5 MPH over on the highway. But that depends. A girl my wife worked with a couple of years ago got stopped and ticketed for 4 over. Guess the cop was having a bad day.

Rick
 
Following behind someone else that is speeding resembles more and more of what is wrong with our country.
People simply feel entitled to break laws for their own greed and convinence, but want someone else to assume all of the risk.
And, when these people get caught knowingly breaking the law, they still want someone to find a loop hole and get them out of the mess that they decided to create.
Must be a hay day for lawyers these days. LOL

It is simple, don't speed. If you decide to speed, grow some nads and take the risk for your decisions.
 
Seems not many on here drive the interstates around Detroit. :)^D Or Indy as a mater of fact.
I think the cops hide during rush hour in both places. 55 around Indy on the signs. Left hand lane was running around 80 a coupla weeks before Christmas.
 
I go the speed limit and have never received a speeding ticket. The kids say, Dad, you drive like an old man. But I don't have any stress from worrying about cops pulling me over, or about getting in a wreck caused by my speeding. Plus I get better MPG. Why hurry anyway? I don't want to live on such a tight schedule that I feel a need to rush everywhere. My father will be 90 in August, and he's never gone over the speed limit, and that's one bit of wisdom that he modeled for his children. Low-stress driving is worth it. I'm not telling anyone else what to do, just sharing what works for me.
 
haa, well its true.
they should have kept the old 235 chevy engines for those cameros, mustangs and challengers that way no way could speed. when you have these new engines turning 1500 rpm and doing 60 mph pretty hard to resist not letting your work boot rest on the gas pedal... so i find myself just setting the cruise. lets just idle to town tonight.
 

You fellas have NO Clue about how it "IS", on the Road....!!

There is NO "Rule" that a Cop can't brake..!!

He (or She) can even Clock a different vehicle and STOP YOU...had it happen several times...

I drove for a Co. that ran us HARD, so when (not "if") I got a ticket, I took it as the Norm, paid it and went on my way..
Had PLENTY "OLD-PROS" run with us in a "Good-Time-Gang" and had a great time (at 80+) across OK, Tx and NM..
Had plenty "New Rookies" try all the sneaky tricks too..
Radar Detectors are a good way to Spend Money..NOTHING will defeat a "Doppler-effect" gun.. They are being installed more and more behind over-head signs and hit you in the Butt..
Just Pay Attention, don't swerve in and out of traffic and DON"T drive like you are ashamed of what you are DOING...for cripe-sake..
IF (When) you do get a ticket..take it as just one that you had deserved but hadn't been given..
We just called them "High-Speed-Driving-Awards"...!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron..
 
I drive about 5 over the limit on interstates. I stricly obey the limits on State highways and small towns. This state has a reputation for speed traps in small towns. So they passed a law a few years back. No town or city can have more than 35% of it's income coming from speeding tickets on any state highway. One notorious speed trap town, Mack Creek actually went bankrupt and dissolved over the issue. A number of other little towns have been fined and can't come up with the money and are in hock to the state. Sure has slowed up the speed traps.

Gene
 
Don't ever think you're safe behind me because I'm doing a buck 30 and I'll get caught first. I probably won't... Locally... I know where most of the speed traps are... and I keep a pretty strenous lookout for cops when I'm traveling that speed... and generally see them about the same time they get a visual on me. I pile on the binders and get down to 100-110... while you're still doing 130... guess who gets the ticket?

More often than not these days I keep it in the 110-120 range simply because gas is the ticket that keeps on giving. I used to do a lot of 140-150-170 kind of driving when the mood struck me... but for 50K over... in NS they now call that 'stunting'. For such grevious crimes they impound the vehicle on the spot for a period of 7 days and your licence is suspended for an equal period along with a $2400 fine. 'Stunting' here is now worse than murder and given a higher priority as well. Every time they hook some poor ba$tard it's all over the news for 3 days. There's been a few people hooked test driving new Camaro's and such things too... those are funny.

For the most part tho... it's a while since I had a ticket for speeding. Probably 15 years. Had a couple for failing to obey traffic signs tho... That's the puncture wound ticket. He could have let you go but won't...

Rod
 
There is generally a "safe and reasonable" clause to speed limits. My uncle was a superior court judge and suggested i use the argument when i was pulled over for doing 5mph over the limit once. It worked. So, for instance, your on a 50 mph stretch of road and doing 55. Its light out, dry, no ice, light traffic, no buses, schools etc. Its reasonable and safe to do 55. But, say the same stretch of road is icy, snowing, fog, rain, or anything else of that sort you could get pulled over for doing the limit, never mind over it, because it was not safe to be going that speed.
 
I don't know where you live, but at least here getting caught going 23-28 mph over the limit will cost you dearly. Fines, insurance, possibly having car impounded and even a short stint in jail.
 
In Wi you are pretty safe at 5 mph over and even if they ticket you there, you can get it dismissed due to speedometer discrepencies and cops know that.

What I do have an issue with is following someone else speeding like that thinking they will spring the trap and you will go free. That is NOT LIKELY to happen. It is far more likely the cop will get BOTH of you. They do that around here all the time and very often are checking speed with more than one car sitting there for the reason you mentioned you were doing it.
 
(quoted from post at 12:43:13 01/11/13) Seems not many on here drive the interstates around Detroit. :)^D Or Indy as a mater of fact.
I think the cops hide during rush hour in both places. 55 around Indy on the signs. Left hand lane was running around 80 a coupla weeks before Christmas.
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I used to drive I-94 right thru Detroit every day, congested, older freeway, speed limit 55. Traffic flowed best at 60-65. Cops stayed off if in rush hour. If you were driving 50-55, you'd be in danger of causing an accident.

I now drive I-696 outside of Detroit where speed limit USED to be 60 or 65. Traffic routinely flowed at 70-80. They raised it to 70. Traffic still flows at 70-80 which is a comfortable speed for that stretch of road. The rule of thumb is that the speed limit is set to what 80% of drivers drive at. I'll drive it at 72-77, staying under 80 during rush hour and have passed State Police while doing 75 and not gotten pulled over though the cops stay off it during rush hour. By that I mean, they aren't sitting on the left shoulder with their radar on. That is sure to cause an accident or minimally cause a traffic jam as everyone (even those doing the speed limit) will hit their brakes when they see them. Outside of rush hour, watch out. I'll keep it to 70-75 to avoid a pricey ticket.

On the open freeway where I know the State police sit behind bridge abutments or on the ramps, I'll stay withing 5 mph of the 70 mph limit. Never got pulled over passing a radar cop at 75.
 
I won"t cuss you but my wife is driving out there, with our two boys belted in, and you deserve every ticket you get. I was a trooper I"d throuw the book at you.
 
In my youth I got one for over 60 mph over the limit (100+ in 40)in my BB Barracuda.But it was tossed on a judicial error. He offered me a "Guilty,traffic school plea" which I took real fast , then he looked at the citation and said "No Way!" I asked for a recess and he granted it. I went to an office to wait and a little later the clerk handed me a form and said, "sign here and leave, lucky".
 
Got my speeding ticket in van about 6 months back- first in maybe 15 years. 84 in a 65 zone, van was a 85 chevy C20 used for hualing people to church after minvan transmission got sick and had a couple litle minor mechanical issues- door handle, taillight burned out--and broken speedometer cable. Followed trafic but they turned off, nice morning, van engine had been replaced with new 350 by previous owner before going to nursing home and son got it to haul dog to vet, I gave it new aircleaner and oil change- so the old van with basicly broke in new engine saved from salvage yard is happy to cruise on highway nice and smooth a "little" over limit right into radar beam. Replaced taillight bulb, vise grip on door handle and speedo cable replaced, then replaced again as warantee when first broke 2 weeks later- was planning to replace cable but procrastinated about $230.00 worth. Since I now have working speedometer, try to remain just under limit- but the engine doesn"t sound as happy, when it starts quiet happy hum instead of little rumble I check quick- and slow down 10/15mph to get back to legal. Need to find it a new home in Texas where the 85mph road is where it would be happy to haul 7 people around at the limit it seems to be geared for. RN
 
No, you "normal" speeding is normal.
I wonder what people are in such a hurry for?
If you get behind me I will just wonder why you didn't start out sooner if you were in such a big hurry. Then you would be ahead of me.
 
I have a sil that is a trooper here in Mn. I asked him if there are several cars in a row doing over speed limit which one will you get? He said I will get them all. He would not tell me how he would do it so it leads me to believe he would give his own fil a ticket. So I do everything within the law as that would be to awkward to be pulled over by him. Also 100 yrs. ago when I was over the road hauling ag equip. I was coming across Wisc. in the middle of a "convoy". It was constant talk on the cb and we had each others azzes covered. Without notice I looked in the mirror and there were the flashing lights. I asked him where he came from because no one ahead had said anything about him. He said he was on coffee break and just turned on the ramp and I happened to be there. Got me for 80 in a 55. That was top end for the GMC Astro with 350 Detroit.
 
In my county 5 to 7 over is usually ok. If you get pulled over you may or may not end up with a ticket. Sheriff has a policy that if you have a radar detector and get pulled over, you will get a ticket!
 
Never had a speeding ticket , one warning a few years ago as I coasted into town 30mph zone a bit over the limit. Clean record so just a warning. It was my new to me pickup and it cruises a lot better than the old one. Here in MN they just in last few years made it legal to pass another vehicle that was going under the speed limit by going as much as 10 mph over the limit. Of course we all have been doing that since the auto was first put on the road but now it is legal to do so. Notice, I said pass a vehicle going less than speed limit. The law is very clear that it is never legal to pass a vehicle that is going at least speed limit unless emergency vehicle.
 
Back in 1973 I got talked into a two week vacation driving my MIL's Cadillac to Fla. then the coast to La. for a few days then home. It was late march, national speed limit was 55 and I was eager to get home and finish prep for planting. Coming up Rte 66 through the five state corners, I think it was kentucky or Mo. that I saw a State Trooper going oppisite on 4 lane divided hwy. I had the cruise set at 65. I never said a word to that officer when He walked up to the side of the Cadillac and said to me: where ya goin in such a hurry, YANKEE BOY? Sometime it's just better to keep yer mouth shut!
 
People following too close, pulling out in front of someone and not accelerating, and texting while driving are worse safety problems than speeding. In the rural areas farmers putting along 20 under the limit looking at the fields is a bigger hazard than someone driving 5 over.
 
(quoted from post at 15:28:13 01/11/13) People following too close, pulling out in front of someone and not accelerating, and texting while driving are worse safety problems than speeding. .
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I would agree. Just yesterday, I was in rush hour on an area of I696 in suburban Detroit where it slows down due to a merging of a major hiway(sometimes stops) and we were going 10-25 when I was surprised by a motorcycle going between lanes, maybe 5-10 mph faster than everyone else. He was more of a danger than anyone doing a few miles over the limit. Same goes for texters.
 
Last week between 23 and Metro I set the cruse at 70 and stayed in the center lane and traffic seemed to be running in the 80 range in the left hand lane and a few in the right hand lane going 50 or less. Except for a few running over 80 switching over all three lanes.
 
I never speed myself, but I often pass other cars that are speeding. That said, I've never had a speeding ticket in my 64 years of driving a car. Just lucky I guess.

The only ticket that I've ever had was for parking in a "NO PARKING" zone where there wasn't any sign that said so. I think the local cop knew it was an out-of-town car so he could collect some money for the small town. The fine was less than going to the local JP and probably ending up getting fined anyway.
 
We had one of our company man get 2 speeding tickets in quick succession; he got the 3rd one a little while later for 30 MPH in a 25 MPH residential zone. Law enforcement suspended his license and informed the company.

The boss asked him how he would do his job if he couldn't drive; his answer was that his wife would drive him around his territory until he could get his license back. After one week of that, his wife said no more of that. He had to resign from the company and find another job.
 
On 400 series roads, it's usually safe to run 20 to 25km/h over.(12-15mph). On a 2 lane road usually about 15 over. On backroads, there's no limits cause there are no cops. I've passed a cop going about 98 in an 80 on a hilly, somewhat curvy county road, I've a feeling he didn't have his radar on though, cause he should have caught me. Got one ticket 2-3 years go, going out of town in a 50 zone. 70 zone a few car lengths away. I'm not really sure why I was going so fast, still can't firure that out. 82 dropped to 29 over.(much better than 30 over.) I've gotten pulled once for hitting(not crossing) the centre line twice in about 10 miles at 12am. Guy thought I had been drinking. Got pulled over in town once while doing 5 under. Still not sure about that one. Also got pulled over a 2 weeks ago for coming out a parking lot that had a No Exit sign facing the road. Cop stopped to let me out of the lot(so I thought), then pulled me over to tell me I wasn't supposed to do that and told me that he was pointing at the sign.(which I couldn't see.) Should have occured to him that if he could see the sign I couldn't. I'm not impressed by the cops in this area, bunch of dim whits.
 
The hiway I take to and from work every day is a 2-lane blacktop, relatively straight stretch posted at 60 mph. That being said, most folks drive 65 to 70 on it, and if it's clear and the weather is good, I'll hit 75 here and there. I've seen several hiway patrol as well as deputies coming the other way and they never seem to notice my little pickup. Just the other day, one of my studenrs told me he got a tcket on a different hiway (posted speed limit of 55 mph). He said the officer wrote it for 72 but he was really doing 75. He then said, (I dunno if it's true) that any ticket of 20mph over the limit carries an attempted manslaughter charge in Missouri. I think I'm gonna slow her down a bit.
 
The locals got me for 42 in a 30. I will do something, I won't mention it here. I will say, it will cost them in down time, for the camera, but I won't damage public property, to make my point!
 
20 years of driving 10 over on I-80 35 miles each way during rush hours, never a problem. 5 over on black tops has never caused me a problem. Weather, in town, traffic, slw down. Only ticket I"ve had was pulling onto unknown blacktop from a gravel road, "looked" like 55, got stopped on a steep downhill for 57 in a 45, knocked it down to 50. I was polite and straightforward and ready to take my medicine.
 
(quoted from post at 17:02:44 01/11/13) The locals got me for 42 in a 30. I will do something, I won't mention it here. I will say, it will cost them in down time, for the camera, but I won't damage public property, to make my point!
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I haven't had a ticket in over 35 years. I just don't feel the need to rush anymore. So I keep it within 5MPH of the limit. However, on my snowmobile I am out there to have fun, but there is way more enforcement on the snowmobile trails here in NH than there is on the roads. Way too many people are getting injured or killed on sleds, but it is never at high speed. It is pretty much always people that have little experience and riding sleds that are not properly equipped or set up. So they run off a trail going 40 MPH in a 45 zone that should be 20. Meanwhile the cops are out on the wide open trails where the speed limit is also 45, where you can easily cruise at 70-80 MPH, writing up young guys on well equipped and set-up performance sleds. You will also them way out away from any population, where there may be four sleds go by in an hour, while around the towns it would be non stop traffic. Pretty poor use of taxpayers money if you ask me.
 
I drive the speed limit now-a-days, but I wasn't always an adult.
I had an officer "reduce" my ticket to 149 MPH because 150 or above was reckless driving.
He then wrote me a reckless driving ticket too. Guess he wanted to write two of them. :roll:
That was many years ago, but a lesson well learned.
 
I've always stayed at the limit in town.

Top out at 5 over, usually.

Michigan was pretty cool, they would flash the lights and see if you were paying attention, if you didn't give them a wave or they didn't see brake lights, they'd turn around and come get you.

Except for Jackson(ville?), west of Ann Arbor, and Coldwater. Had a Coldwater state cop write one of our other drivers a red light ticket because the trailer was still in the intersection when the light turned red.

Before Slohio did away with the split speeds, as long as you set the cruise at 60 and didn't go passing a bunch of cars, they didn't pay much of any attention to you.

I found a surefire way to not get tickets. Move someplace where the speed limit is the same speed you are most comfortable driving at.
 
What's the slowest anyone was going and got pulled over?
Many years ago I was driving on Daytona Beach. Speed limit was 10 mph. Wasn't speeding as I didn't want to miss any "scenery". Car about 3 ahead of me kept hitting the brakes. We slowed to about 3-5 MPH. I was idling in 1st gear but the truck was loading up and chugging. I passed a couple cars doing a whopping 7MPH. Cop pulled me over. Said I was speeding. I asked what he clocked me at. Said he didn't clock me but saw me passing. Told him I was sure I wasn't going more than 7 when I was passing the guy driving 3. He said ok, drive safe.
 
Awhile back I realized I hate payin speeding tickets, and it gets my blood pressure up, so for me, I just take my time anymore.
Waste alot of time, get places early and take a break in the parking lot, because I plan for delays.
We're in a world where we get impatient waiting on the microwave to warm food in a few seconds.
Anymore, it ain't worth my stress or health to rush around.
If I can't make it on time, I call ahead, but normally allot ample preparation, even for Murphy's Law. Just don't worry about it, and still get there on time. Love seein them folks pass me 20mph over the speed limit, then we sit at the same red light waiting to go. What's the point?
The only exception I have had recently is when rushing to ER with someone wounded.
Just don't understand why everybody's in such a hurry anymore, and don't know how to plan time appropriately.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for my response.
OH-and if somebody's in a big hurry, tailgating, I just pull over and let em on by. No worries.
Take care, Danny
 
I wrote speeding tickets professionally for 16 years before moving over into Commercial Vehicles. As a general rule we tended to give about 15% up here depending on conditions. In a school zone on a dark, rainy day maybe a bit less. On a sunny, dry day on a nice piece of road, a little more. Even then it all depended on what the driver said. I have actually escorted people to the hospital, although I think we maxed out at 75 or so (I wasn't dumb enough to not realize I'd be liable in an accident). I've also had people give me the same line about the same emergency 2 days in a row. If you're going to lie, at least remember what the cop looked like! I've had hot chicks try to get out of tickets, didn't work, and a million people telling me who they knew and how they'd have my job, been stalked a couple times too. I tended to give a little more leeway to the working poor (which I was before I finally go a decent job) than to the rich college kids with the attitude. I've had numerous parents call me up and thank me for for catching Junior.

Anyway, these days I drive 55-62 in a 55. I rarely exceed the speed limit at all actually. I recommend the practice to everyone. Saves gas, lowers your blood pressure, lessens the chance for an accident and you'll find your interaction with the police to drop greatly.


Oh yeah, all radar is doppler radar and you don't "set" a radar unit to a certain speed, at least not in the last 30 or so years. Radar detectors only work if it's activated within range of you. Every unit I had from 1987 forward had a hold switch, a transmit switch if you will. The general practice was to leave it off until you spotted a car that you visually estimated it's speed on and them hit it for verification. Had a guy flatten 4 brand new Pirellis on his 911 Whale Tail one day because of that. Sure was an impressive reduction from 94-55!
 
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