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Highway patrol now catching speeders from semis

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Accept the responsibility of the crime if you choose to commit it.
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Technically most tickets are not criminal offences. they are civil infractions. Only some very severe offences are criminal offences.

That said, I agree. I tend to speed about 5-10 over on the freeway (NEVER on residential streets or streets with a limit below 50). Never been so much as stopped for it. But if I do get stopped and ticketed, I'll pay it. I know the risk and I know that at some point I'll get nicked for it. It just the speed I naturally seem to drive at. If I pay no attention at all to speed and just watch traffic I'll drive around 70 mph. If I constantly monitor my speed (which does take attention away from traffic) I can stay at 65. Just not worth it to me.

ZV
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"Nicked", LOL! :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Tickets generate revenue. Tickets do not make the roads any safer. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
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The fear of getting a ticket makes people drive the speed limit because they don't want to pay the fine. It doesn't matter what you think about that because it really isn't an opinion. Even if no one else in the entire world drove like that, at the very least I do and that nullifies your opinion because I drive slower and safer to avoid tickets, but the reality is that many people do drive slow to avoid being pulled over.
 
Entrapment.

If they drive anywhere other than the right lane, I would argue entrapment. Because the trucks' speed limit is 55mph and cars' is 65mph, their slow driving may force cars to drive over their speed limit to get around them.
 
The thing is this sets a precident. Cops can now tag along with private business. So can they tag along with Pizza delivery drivers and go up to the door of someones house to try and catch someone that was smoking pot and got the munchies and order a dozen large pizzas? Or attemp to sneak a look in on a frat party to try and catch an under age drinker?
This is opening a flood gate to what they will be allowed to do, and all you Nancy's saying that if you don't do anything wrong you don't have to worry. That's not what it's about, it's about civil liberties and freedom from an oppressive government. Remember what you do today may be legal and fine, but tomorrow it could be against the law and you would never know.
 
Originally posted by: Rickten
this is not about making the roads safer, simply more revenue. Same thing with the speed cameras on some of arizona's freeways. The locals know exactly where the cameras are, so they speed then slow down, speed then slow down. Creates an unsafe situation, not to mention the strobe light flash that blinds you momentarily. Its all about the money not making the roads safer.
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exactly. i do hate the little photo radar vans though....but man, the cameras on the freeway - their flashes make lightning look like a candle. i am just waiting for somebody to get nailed and then crash, then sue...seriously if i was on the freeway using a regular camera flash and pointing it at cars woudn't i be endangering the drivers?
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: ric1287
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I don't see what the big deal is.. a big yellow truck is pretty easy to spot, so don't speed around them!
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the trucks themselves are not yellow, just the name of the trucking line. though it would be funny to see a giant school bus
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Um... Yes the Yellow Trucking semis are yellow in color. The trailers aren't, but the cabs are.

ZV
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actually they are orange.
 
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
The thing is this sets a precident. Cops can now tag along with private business. So can they tag along with Pizza delivery drivers and go up to the door of someones house to try and catch someone that was smoking pot and got the munchies and order a dozen large pizzas? Or attemp to sneak a look in on a frat party to try and catch an under age drinker?
This is opening a flood gate to what they will be allowed to do, and all you Nancy's saying that if you don't do anything wrong you don't have to worry. That's not what it's about, it's about civil liberties and freedom from an oppressive government. Remember what you do today may be legal and fine, but tomorrow it could be against the law and you would never know.
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:roll:

They're free to partner with a private business - and we're free to stop buying from that business. Any pizza place that partners up with the local PD is going to find themselves bankrupt in a hurry.

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: AkumaX
I thought they were gonna do it Spy Hunter style (where cop cars pull out of the thingy)
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:laugh:

And if they get in a collision, their car breaks up into bits and becomes a motorcycle? 😀

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: AkumaX
I thought they were gonna do it Spy Hunter style (where cop cars pull out of the thingy)
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:laugh:

And if they get in a collision, their car breaks up into bits and becomes a motorcycle? 😀

- M4H
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WHAT, your car doesn't do that?
 
Originally posted by: paulxcook
I'm against the idea of a public institution like police teaming up with private enterprise like this, but the part that pisses me off the most is obviously the part where I'll now be scared to blow past a semi on the highway. I hope this garbage stays in Kansas. Notice the article didn't say anything about making the highways safer for all, but instead talked about how it'll generate hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue for the state gov't.
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that was my 1st thought
 
Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: AkumaX
I thought they were gonna do it Spy Hunter style (where cop cars pull out of the thingy)
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:laugh:

And if they get in a collision, their car breaks up into bits and becomes a motorcycle? 😀

- M4H
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WHAT, your car doesn't do that?
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haha, sort of liek Jackie Chan's car in Armor of the Gods 2
 
If you speed, you risk a ticket...period.

The only problem I have are speed traps. We have one here in town where the speed limit drops from 45 to 35 around a blind corner, and a cop sits in the road just around that corner. The road or businesses don't change, just the speed limit, for no reason. The city council has changed a few speed limits because of this "trapping"
 
Originally posted by: paulxcook
I'm against the idea of a public institution like police teaming up with private enterprise like this, but the part that pisses me off the most is obviously the part where I'll now be scared to blow past a semi on the highway.
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Yeah, I hate when I have to live in fear of getting caught when I'm breaking the law
 
Speeding should not be the top priority. I don't think the act of speeding causes the most distruption/hazzards to traffic today. What about all those people who don't yield or drive to slow for the pace of traffic. They probably account for more crap than going fast.

Going fast alone is not unsafe in my opinion. Only when people combine that with weaving in and out of traffic and tailgating. (Which again would probably be lessened if people yielded).

 
Originally posted by: piasabird
Sounds like entrapment.
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Originally posted by: 911paramedic
If you speed, you risk a ticket...period.

The only problem I have are speed traps.

We have one here in town where the speed limit drops from 45 to 35 around a blind corner, and a cop sits in the road just around that corner.

The road or businesses don't change, just the speed limit, for no reason.

The city council has changed a few speed limits because of this "trapping"
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Well Kansas has a statewide speed limit of 70 with Speedtraps where they drop it down near some towns on the Interstate such as Russell Kansas on I-70.

Similar situation, no change in the road that warrants the quick drop in speed limit other than revenue.

I would bet that is where they use the Semi's the most.

Dave's Speed Trap page
 
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