Bandit's C4

LEO = Law Enforcement Officer = CHP

Hameister

You have LEO correct.

About 25 years ago I got tired of dodging cops, and getting speeding tickets.

I decided I would set my cruise control for 3 mph over the posted limit all the time.

Guess what? In the past 25 years, I've not been stopped. No tickets....amazing!

MBB

1rusty1

You can get away with 5 over no problem. 7 over is max. 10 or more and you're fair game. I was an LEO about a million years ago (only worked a few years. Just wasn't for me). Judges don't like wasting their time on tickets with 5 or 7 over.

Landru

Exact same thing happened to me.

Only the cop was coming toward me, had to turn around & track me several miles to my home. After my papers he says 'you passed on a double yellow.'.
I said, 'No. I'd driven around the car ahead of me who signaled a right turn. I drove around them. Maybe their RF turn signal light was burned out, why you couldn't see?'.
Young cop, I could see the wheels turning, thinking *maybe*.
Handed back my papers & said drive more careful.

I got real lucky, he had me by the shorthairs.

mickey5

Hey Irish, You should know better here in bucolic Joisey. Going over a double yellow is always a no-no. How much is a plead to zero...I seem to remember reading something like $250..right? Seriously, sorry to here about your request for a donation. What town was it in? The shore towns are getting hungry this time of year.

Yellogixxer

I got pulled over once by a PA Trooper for doing 67 in a 55. The cop was cool. Instead of speeding, he wrote me up for failing to use my turn signal when pulling off onto the shoulder. No points.

I was grateful and gladly paid with a smile on my face, but it has always bothered me...what if I did use my turn signal, would I have gotten the speeding ticket, or something else?

Torchsport

As another example, I am a long time motorcyclist. (33 years on the street)
A few years ago I started doing track days on them. That has really settled me down on the street.

billyboy47

here in pa. you n.j. and n.y. guys are constantly passing people on a double yellow lane. then you have the nerve to call your state corrupt when the officer is doing his job. i call it corrupt when they don't do their job. like a cop told me once, "suck it up and deal with it" ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Vette_DD

7 to 8 miles an hour is about the limit in the next town and on the interstate. Next town because there's a mile stretch (5 lane street) at the edge of town with no traffic lights.

Here, 5 is about the limit on most streets, since there are so many traffic lights.

Haven't been pulled over since the county mounty in the next county did it for 76 in a 55 about 7 years ago, but no ticket.

RLSebring

Heading South through North Alabama Monday had a LEO blow by me and I was doing 79 in a 70. I pulled in the next exist several miles down the road and this same LEO pulled in beside me and started chatting. I finished fueling and as he pulled away he said "BTW you are still in a 55 mph construction zone for another 10 or so miles". I told him I knew I had just came out of a zone but hadn't seen a barrel for miles. He said the zone was about 20 or so miles long and nothing going on at this end but not to be doing 79 through it.

I gave him a heart felt thanks for not pulling me over.

bushjc

Hey Jim, sounds like that Tullahoma to Winchester run - I went through there one afternoon and there was 3 LEO's passing out Donation Requests like candy on Halloween.

brewcitygymratt

Congrats on not getting pulled. I have been driving for 30 yrs and received one break in all those years(my neighbor was a cop and pulled up behind the leo that pulled me over and had him let me go). My dad's a retired cop but I never name dropped, just was polite and respectful to all the leo's that pulled me over(maybe 10 or so speeding tickets in life).
Being polite and respectful is how I've been brought up but it has never saved me from getting a ticket. I once got written up for 4 over in Missouri on the highway at 3am on my drive home to WI. Step- mom was in another car and got pulled over, so I pulled over to be near her for caravan purposes. He wrote both of us tickets.lol

Also being a longtime paraplegic from an industrial accident as a teen I tried the involuntary muscle spasm defense with no success.

jackhall99

This really varies by locality. Here in the suburban Chicago area, our state police write then most tickets starting at 80 MPH (55 speed limit) on our interstates. This is not saying they couldn't write you up lower, as they do. But at 25 over, we are asking for it.

Now if there is construction going on, we better heed the usual 45 MPH zone. Our highway LEOs really frown on speeding in these zones.

choprfgr

In Texas it says right on the ticket - has to be 10% over.

VET4LES

Been driving in Southern California for 59 years. Been pulled over a few times but never had a ticket. I've deserved a few but been lucky.

LawrenceFromTorrance

I could understand "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" if the laws were logical and there were only a few thousand laws. But there are illogical laws and over 10s of thousands of laws (I know you don't know half of them).

PS I got a ticket for 57MPH in a 55MPH zone, I'm so happy that the officer wasn't corrupt. No I wasn't! I was just cruising with the rest of the traffic.

POPN427

On the way to Vegas from So. Calif 30 Miles before Primm,,,

Good thing I have manners!! And the CHP really liked my 427



Warning only!! and multiple " this is a really nice vette!! " 88 in the 70

Looking into a PASSPORT 9500ix radar detector,,,,any thoughts ??

Be Safe

PatriotZ

....accept the fact that the LEO was indeed cool and cut you some slack......pretty simple concept!

jdk541

Another great thing about Arizona the roads are in excellent condition, it is dry 99% of the time and just about everyone speeds here. I try not to exceed 8 or 9 over the posted limit and even at that you are still frequently getting passed by someone. I try to just be the second fastet car in the pack that I am driving in and limiting my speed to a reasonable rate. That has worked for me so far. No tickets in the last 30 years.

Of course now that I said that I will be getting one next week.