It doesn't pay to fly the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

[Wolferz]

The toll is redonculous...
http://now.msn.com/brian-nicholson-pilot-facing-dollar3k-bill-for-emergency-landing-on-pennsylvania-turnpike

[Mr Quatro]

The last time I drove the Pennsylvania Turnpike they were using unmarked police cars to catch people. A red convertible passed me like I was standing still with a state trooper inside.

[Madox58]

The Pike ain't to bad. Mostly slow.
Take 80 across it's much faster and in better shape.

[TarJak]

The Pike ain't to bad. Mostly slow.
Take 80 across it's much faster and in better shape.

Just don't let Jeff drive.:O: Its even faster and your eyeballs will be fored to the back of your head when he takes off.:D

[Jimbuna]

Just don't let Jeff drive.:O: Its even faster and your eyeballs will be fored to the back of your head when he takes off.:D

That depends who is on the lead bike he's trying to keep up with :)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Sheesh, more idiots against common sense. What would his widow's bill have been if the worst had happened?

[Madox58]

Just don't let Jeff drive.:O: Its even faster and your eyeballs will be fored to the back of your head when he takes off.:D

You should be thankful you weren't on the trip I finished the other day!
Round trip from Ohio to Dalton, Georgia in 14 hours!
Had a brand new Dodge Ram to play with.
:D

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[TarJak]

You should be thankful you weren't on the trip I finished the other day!
Round trip from Ohio to Dalton, Georgia in 14 hours!
Had a brand new Dodge Ram to play with.
:D

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You turned into a sheep worrier?:06::O:

[em2nought]

Wonder what the fine for flying under a bridge on the Susquehanna River would be in this day and age? ...or what would they do if you brought it down on a military base today? I miss my Pop! :salute:

[soopaman2]

I invite you all to the Garden State Parkway in NJ, if you are not going 85 then you are too slow.

The state cops will actually pass you going faster, and wave at you as they do so.

New Jersey autobahn!

All jokes aside, the parkway is a toll road that shoulda been free, like 15 years ago, but government bloat will never give up a revenue producer, and once EZPASS got in on it, yeah well, the promise of no tolls is long gone.

So the cops kinda let ya speed, if your not being wreckless. NJ state boys are ok compared to the locals, *mutters*

[Wolferz]

The last time I drove the Pennsylvania Turnpike they were using unmarked police cars to catch people. A red convertible passed me like I was standing still with a state trooper inside.
Every police force out there does that. I've nearly been hit on an interstate at night by a gung ho copper peeling out of the median in his black Mustang interceptor. He did turn on his lights... after he got on the roadway.:hmmm:
If we had connected, guess who would have been blamed for not yielding to an emergency vehicle? Hint: It wouldn't be the officer. It's a good thing I'm like Kid Rock.

[Sailor Steve]

So the cops kinda let ya speed, if your not being wreckless.
It's the same here in Utah. I-15 crosses the western desert and the salt flats, 120 miles from Salt Lake to Wendover, at the Nevada border. The speed limit is posted at 75 mph, but UHP usually ignores you if you stay below 90. They're busy chasing the ones doing 120.

[swamprat69er]

The 401 up here the limit is supposed to be 62.5mph which is 100 kph, but nobody does it. You can see them doing anything from 110-145 kph or 66-90 mph. Most people stay under the 150 mark because at 150 or 50 over they can lose their license and car on the spot.

[Gargamel]

Every police force out there does that. I've nearly been hit on an interstate at night by a gung ho copper peeling out of the median in his black Mustang interceptor. He did turn on his lights... after he got on the roadway.:hmmm:
If we had connected, guess who would have been blamed for not yielding to an emergency vehicle? Hint: It wouldn't be the officer. It's a good thing I'm like Kid Rock.

I dont think you understand the devious-ness of the PSP. I've seen a Geo Metro pull some one over on the Turnpike there. They go out in the impound lot, see which car they want for the day, and take that one.

New York SP were using well marked Z28 Camaros for a while. Those were impressive cars..... till I watched one sink in the mud in a Uturn.

[vanjast]

Driving down the highway and a cop ran out from the bushes.. waving his hands at me.. so I pulled over next to him.

Wound down the window and said to him.. I was only doing 110kph (speed limit is 120)...
Not you he said.. it's the guy coming up behind you.. he's doing 220+ kph.. :doh:
They must have trapped him further back as usually they have a backup team equipped with cars that have 'jet engines'.
I uncounted the backup team !!

That guy was probably locked up and his license/car confiscated !!

With that Pennsylvaniathing .. shouldn't that be part of the service that you tax payers pay for .. therefore should be free ?

[Stealhead]

Things are about the same here in Florida on most interstates they will not bat an eye at anyone under 80MPH. With the exclusion of the area around Jacksonville around there they will bust for going 5MPH over all day long.

I drive throughout FL,southern GA,Southern AL,a little bit of MS,and parts of LA very regularly in my job and I find that Alabama,Mississippi and Georgia tend to much stricter with speed limits than most other states in those states I would not exceed 5 MPH over.

Me I like to save fuel so I rarely go over 60MPH and in my truck that is about top end anyway if I kept the accelerator down long enough after about an hour I might hit 90 it is a diesel what can I say? On some jobs we drive a leased flatbed truck(like a dump truck but a flat bed instead of a tipper) until recently when we bought a mid 90's Mack that truck tops out at about 55MPH.It is kind of fun to drive or ride in a work truck especially on a two lane road everyone behind you is in a big rush and you just sit chilling out making them suck dinosaur bones.

[Mr Quatro]

I was driving real slow one night with a new generator I had purchased from Home Depot on mountain roads and then I came to a long straight away with a car pool parking area alongside the road. What do I see, but a state trooper with his lights off cruising real slow alongside the highway ready to catch the next speeder coming down off the mountain. He was cruising slow so he would have a head start on the poor sucker and he wouldn't have to chase him as far.

[Stealhead]

Are they really a poor sucker if they are in fact exceeding the posted speed limit? It is the posted law agree with it or not if you break the law you break it.

I have earned three speeding tickets in my life time and can honestly say that each time I was speeding at the time and also well exceeding the limit.Sure they do have their speed traps but in most cases it can be pretty hard to argue that in court.Though there is a small town in FL where the entire town was more or less a speed trap and he made them stop.

[Gargamel]

There once was a time when I had been "pulled over" more times by the coast guard than police. They don't like it when you try to ram their patrol boats. Or Abandon ship fora swim break (while under sail). Or blast your airhorn at a jet skier (on a national circuit race course) who keeps splashing you.

[swamprat69er]

I have been stopped once for speeding in the big truck. 75 in a 55 in upstate NY in the 80's. I got away with it because I got stopped before the cop even got behind me and he wrote the company up for 600$ worth of tickets instead. No HUT sticker and bald tires on the trailer.

[Penguin]

So the cops kinda let ya speed, if your not being wreckless.
:har:

Cop: "Do you know why we pulled you over?"
NJ driver: "Maybe because I was doing 95, totally buzzed, in oncoming traffic?"
Cop: "No Sir, we don't worry about that. Though we were following you for 20 minutes and you haven't produced one single wreck!"