Aerial speeding patrols in OK

[corneileous]

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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[corneileous]

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.

Really not trying to argue, and I’m not just right off the bat saying you bought a cheap detector but a really good quality radar detector that is nowhere near cheap is the only way to go if you’re serious about having a a radar detector. When you think about the cost of the ticket and then the cost of your insurance rates going up, In my book, there’s just no argument. But first and foremost, one of the most common misconceptions that people make about radar detectors is how they feel they’ll make you feel invincible and invisible to radar and even the best radar detectors out there are not gonna make you invisible. When you use one, it comes with a responsibility. Knowing how to properly use it is very important.


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[trekrok]

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.

This was my experience too. Got a detector a long time ago and promptly got a speeding ticket when OHP stop-watched me from behind. Basically, I quit paying attention. I'm not a big speeder anyway, but now I just pay attention and haven't had a ticket in years.

 

[corneileous]

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 feel your pain and I even drive a semi that is more than capable of driving faster than any speed limit around… Except well, except for maybe I-10 through most of Texas because my truck’s governed at 80 but nonetheless, I feel your pain but you just gotta understand that this is what our trucking industry has turned into. Too many large companies out there that are more interested in saving a dollar on their fuel bill and since the majority of them out there no longer have well experienced drivers driving their trucks, they slow them down that much for safety reasons as well but yes, I know, I don’t like it when a 66 mile an hour truck jumps out there in the left lane to pass up a 65 mile an hour truck but if anything, I don’t get upset at the truck that’s doing the passing; I get upset at the truck that’s being passed simply because his truck is slower than the one thats passing him and no matter what he does, he will never out run that other truck but he looks at it from the wrong way like so many other people do and tries to make the passing truck look like the jerk when in my book, he’s the one being the jerk because he could very simply just back out of the throttle for a tiny bit and let that faster truck get around him and be on his merry way and after telling you this, I sure hope you’re not one of those that agrees with that national speed limit for trucks that the government’s pushing for because if you think it’s bad now, you just wait and see how it’s going to be when almost every truck on the road is going to be governed to the same speed because due to differences in tire sizes from old and new tires and the accuracy of the speedometers, there’s always gonna be that one truck that’s gonna be a little bit faster than the other one and you can bet your bottom dollar he’s going to try to take every advantage of that he can.

Oh, what you said at the first of your post about the people who ride in the left lane virtually the same speed as the people in the right lane, that pisses me off to no end as well and what really aggravates me is when they finally decide to get over, it’s like they hit the afterburner switch because they’ll go from the speed limit to 85 miles an hour in no seconds flat. It’s like, why in the hell weren’t you doing that before when you were in the left lane?… LOL.


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[corneileous]

That's because most of them have tattle tails installed and engine governors. Their boss gets an email when they speed that's why they always brake going downhill nowadays instead of what they used to do by gaining enough speed to get the crest of the next hill.
Swift Trucks should have their name changed to Slow.

The old Georgia overdrive is what you’re talking about… LOL.

And don’t get me started on all the acronyms for the word Swift… LOL.


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[corneileous]

Yep, lots of tricks used by the troopers to defeat radar detectors. One will run down the road with the unit on low power. About a half mile behind there will be another with the instant on to activate. Ran on to that one many times in my 18 mike commute to work.
Definitely never be the rabbit in the train. The leader gets the ticket.

Except for when they use LIDAR, or laser. They can pinpoint very accurately the speed of every car that is traveling in that group.

But yeah, the law has developed a lot of tricks to thwart radar detectors but Radar detector companies have come up with a lot of tricks of their own as well. My Escort Max 360 and my Escort Redline EX can both pick up up to four alerts at one time and not only that but they also give you the frequency of what the alert is as well so if you really pay attention to whenever your radar detector goes off, even before you see the actual cop car, you can tell what it is before you even see it if it’s an OHP, or county sheriff or city police. It also makes the Ka band the priority to where if you’re picking up that god-awful crash warning system on these newer cars and all the sudden an OHP pops up shooting 33.4 MHz Ka band, it’ll immediately ignore the K band and go straight to that. And not only that, I have the app that I use with both of these radar detectors which tells me what other escort customers have picked up when I get close to that location which is really helpful if it’s up in the city and if someone has picked up a laser or even a Ka band alert.


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[MacFromOK]

One of my brothers drove for Montgomery Tank Lines for a while. Sometimes several drivers would be on the same route, and they'd more/less hang together.

He always said the key to making money, was to keep the driver's door closed. From the inside.

Speed limit was 55, and he'd run about 60, and hardly ever got a speeding ticket. The other drivers would blow past him doing around 80. A while later, he'd drive past them sitting in a truckstop drinking coffee.

 

[murphranch]

I was told the airplanes used the white markers on the road and timed the vehicle between them

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[travisstorma]

Correct. They use VASCAR to time between the markers.

 

[cdschoonie]

Hmm…. Well, I’m my experience, being that not all radar detectors are created equal, I do feel that you do get what you pay for and unless you want a radar detector to actually do what it’s supposed to, you can’t be cheap but I was always under the impression that if there was an airplane above, they could only tell the ground unit that such and such car might be speeding and then it was up to the ground unit to shoot the radar at that specific car to verify they are indeed speeding.

I guess I just don’t understand how an aircraft flying above like that can get you for speeding much like how I’ve been told on radar detector forums that they can’t really rely on instant on anymore because it dramatically reduces its accuracy. I may be wrong, though. All I can say though is in the total of about $1200 worth of two radar detectors that I have, let’s just say they have more than paid for themselves several times over.


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I agree totally, when I bought/used one it was 30 years ago, that was shortly before the jammers became popular. The one I bought was used, and cost me $50 and a case of beer. So was it a reliable one? Very doubtful. I’m thoroughly convinced I could buy one now that works good. Thankfully I feel I have grown out on the hot rodding stage on my life. As I said before, I’ve been very lucky and I’m no saint. I do go over the speed limit from time to time, but it’s always staying with the flow of traffic, I never go over 2 mph above the posted.