I'd be taking any tickets to court off this....

Off the top of my head last Monday on HWY 31 just north of the Bama border. License and insurance check point. Prior to that Officers doing ride alongs and calling in motorists for cutting off trucks and agressive driving in Nashville maybe in Feburary?


Comin up 81 today I saw at least a bakers dozen with cars and Rvs pulled over, saw a couple with big trucks too. Even saw one who does not understand the entire No Parking sign in a rest area getting a courtesy check resplendit with two officers on Creepers looking him over.


But I am sure they were telling the four wheelers funny anecdotes about the truckers they mess with huh?

 

We get DUI points up in Murfreesboro. Not so much here as it is a dry county.

They have been doing the seatbelt thing up in Ann Arbor last week. I didn't see any trucks all four wheelers in that parking lot.

I keep trying to get our company to do a ride along with Miss Hwy patrol around Canton,Jackson. Those idjits down there make 285 in Atlanta look sane.


Look I know everyone thinks there is a target on them. In the case of 495 there is because of the amount of rear end collisions commercial vehicles have there. In my opinion some of the worst local drivers in the world work from Haymarket to Aberdeen, and the entitlement population of DC and Baltimore just lends to that problem.
Looked like they had a full house in the split scale today.

 

CR ENGLAND driver couple days ago in Chicago ran over a minivan... most likely tailgating... Killed the driver of the van. I cant stand people tailgating me. Slowed to 25mph just to get them to pass me.

 

Same as the men who work for every other corrupt organization around the world. I have children to feed as well, but I don't do it on the backs of others.

 

I have a saturation checkpoint for trucks every day when the sign on the highway says OPEN.

Is that unfair targeting?

I got stopped at a DWI checkpoint going home from work the other night. Was I being unfairly targeted?

 

Look, targeting has been going on forever, and will continue. Whether it is fair or not is subjective.

In 2011 the FMCSA gave grants to the states for the TACT (Targeting Aggressive Cars and Trucks) program. How the states used them varied widely.
For example, Alabama's goal was to make cars safer around trucks. 94% off the citations issued were to cars. On the flipside, Georgia used it to increase CMV inspections at scales and road sides. A few states had troopers doing ride alongs in trucks.
So, some targeted cars, others trucks. There is always targeting.

 

Haven't been in Canada or Northern states Canadians regularly run in have you ? Canadians are the worst tailgaters I have ever seen . Pass one and they will jump behind you as soon as you clear their front bumper .

 

I would like to know where it is written that when exercising a privlege (Even and/or especially in commerce) one should be shown a blind eye, or one should be excused from exhibiting compliance because he/she is somehow special.

Wouldn't that depend on what state you were in and the procedures used or allowed by that state? For instance in 12 states sobriety checkpoints are either prohibited by state statute, state constitution, or interpretation of either the fed Constitution or a state's constitution. Procedural problems such as the selection of checkpoints not being part of an ongoing program to deter driving under the influence, or no formal policy based on law (Including court decisions) or no systematic method of evaluating drivers or data.

Somehow we sometimes tend to equate fairness with law, so what's based on law in one state and judged by us to be fair then becomes unfair to us if another state's laws are different.

So either you were not targeted unfairly, or you were and didn't know it, but here is no way for us to know it.

And yes I am a s/a, but I mean no harm.

Best regards