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.
Just to elaborate a little bit more from my previous post, a good quality radar detector that has a good amount of range on it, is what will help you out tremendously. If you have a radar detector that is very effective at picking up the faintest of radar signal further than 2 miles away, that’s what will save you. The whole idea is to pick up that instant on that’s being shot at somebody else that will give you plenty of time to slow down.
I wouldn’t mind someday switching over to the Uniden brand detectors because their range is upwards of 5 miles but for one, I like the fact that my escorts utilize an app and that as of right now, escort is the only brand that I know of that has a truly undetectable radar detector that I feel safe using in my big truck.
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