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Stealhead · 11-18-13, 06:08 PM

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 · 11-19-13, 02:36 PM

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 · 11-19-13, 04:54 PM

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 · 11-19-13, 09:33 PM

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 · 11-19-13, 09:54 PM

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 · 11-20-13, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

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

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!"

11-19-13, 04:54 PM	#18
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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. Last edited by Stealhead; 11-19-13 at 05:07 PM.

11-19-13, 09:33 PM	#19
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

11-19-13, 09:54 PM	#20
swamprat69er Aceydeucy Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ontario,Canada Posts: 1,889 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. We the willing, led by the unsure, have done so much with so little, for so long, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

11-18-13, 06:08 PM	#16
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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.

11-19-13, 02:36 PM	#17
Mr Quatro Navy Seal Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 6,772 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.