Another reason I use a radar detector. The ones on I-40 are just a single white line. They’re in almost every state I’ve driven through.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard… We have a good family friend who is a Trooper, we were visiting one time and aerial clocking came up. He was telling me about a trap they had, the airplane was clocking, ground crews stopping. Said he stopped a guy, dude said he couldn’t have got him speeding, because he had 2 radar detectors. Trooper said they got him by plane, guy said no I have that covered too. The guy pointed at his dash, said the guy had one detector facing forward, and one beside it pointing straight up. He said he was laughing so hard, he told the guy that he’d tried so hard, he’d let him go just this once. He and I have laughed about that for several years now.
Oddly enough, the only 3 tickets I got in my late teens, early 20s, I was using a radar detector. I think you get comfortable with thinking they’ll save you. The last one I got, I gave the detector away and never used another one.Back in the day when I drove 18-wheelers, I knew a guy that used police scanners instead of radar detectors. He claimed that he didn't trust radar detectors because out in the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, the instant-on radar wouldn't be picked up soon enough. He didn't stop to think that the police and highway patrol might not use their radios until they had already lit him up and started pursuit to stop him.
But, he found that out anyway, because about 50 miles down the road he got pulled over.
Personally, I've never used either a radar detector or scanners. I tend to set my cruise at 5 mph over the speed limit and have only been stopped once for that bit of rebellious nature. That one time was a Nebraska highway patrolman south of Valentine, Nebraska. I even told him that with 61 years of licensed driving under my belt, he was the first. I think I surprised him with that one.
I don't get irritated except people going slow in the left lane, or people who go to pass in the left lane and then hold up traffic for MILES because they're not going any faster than the people they're trying to pass, or at most 1mph difference. Ran into this with truckers on our recent road trip and it irritated me to no end.
Stupid truckers getting in the left left of a 2-lane highway to pass another truck, but the passing truck can't even manage to get up to the speed limit consistently due to hills, speeding up to maybe 1-2 miles over the limit on downhills, but 5-7mph UNDER the limit during uphills.
Literally dozens of cars lined up behind him in the 10+ minutes it took to get to the next clear spot when he could move over.
I always thought they weren't supposed to pull people over in unmarked cars, but you see that all the time anymore.A couple of weeks ago when I was returning from Hughes county I saw 3 Highway patrol with people pulled over on I40 East of OKC. The three HP cars looked like regular 4 door cars that any family might be traveling in... no black or white models but colors like blue, red, grey....pretty sneaky but it got the job done for them...you could only tell they were HP when they fired up the lights....
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