A question for those of you familiar with Grapevine

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by hunts2much, May 18, 2010.

  1. Everett

    Everett Crusty Shorts, What???

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    Great vidieo, love the organal first but this was a very good remake, i dont know many times i heard that thru the night , wore out three cass, onm it:biggrin_25514::biggrin_2559: suppse convoy freight follows the movie:biggrin_2559:
     
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  3. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I had an idiot Barney Fife in a small town podunk CO town try the same thing on me.

    Gave me a 15 over ticket. I had a small pickup in front of me that I had followed the entire way down this mountain. I asked him how in the F if I was doing 15 faster than the pickup which he told me was doing the speed limit then why wasn't I up in the bed of the pickup with my truck since I was going so much faster than the pickup.

    His reply was "I don't know how you didn't run that guy over". But you were doing 15 over and you are getting a ticket.


    The guy was a moron and an insult to my intelligence that he was so stupid.

    I respect cops for the most part because I realize they have a very tough job to do. But if you are going to be a blithering idiot cop then I have no respect for you. This horses behind is one cop I truly despise.
     
  4. Working Class Patriot

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    Colorado...California.....Kommierado.....Kommiefornia......The lines of distinction are now blurred.......:biggrin_2556:
     
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  5. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Not to mention insurance companies all view 15+ as careless driving.

    They are all about reducing risk and in their eyes if you drive that fast you are a bad risk.
     
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  6. Brickman

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    Their work day probably "starts" at 9 am. By the time they have the coffee pot going, the computers started, and the printer/copier machines warmed up its nearing 10. With a 2 hr liquid lunch at 12 and a nap until 3 there isn't a lot of work that gets done before they go home at 4 to rest up in their lazy boy.
    :biggrin_25523: :biggrin_25523: :biggrin_25523:
     
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  7. Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    There was this other time in IN that I got a 10 over ticket because that cop was either color blind or too lazy to spend the time to run down the real speeder. Either way he acted like a real idiot about the whole thing.
    A guy that his badge had long ago gone to his head. I've dealt with a variety of cops and DOT over the years. Some I respect because they were 100% professional about their job.

    I was driving a RED truck doing the speed limit, the guy doing at least 10 over was driving a PURPLE truck. The cop was headed home and pissed that he was sitting at the side of the road dealing with a trucker.

    I was pissed too because I got another undeserved ticket.


    On the other hand I looked at it like this. During my 20s I got very few tickets. I guess I was lucky because there were times that I deserved a HUGE ticket. Lets just say that my pickup could cruise with small air planes. The only difference was that I was on the ground.
    Yeah I was real lucky during those years.
     
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  8. Hubcap

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    The economy has these states revenues down, so taking as much out of the hip pocket of out of state drivers (TRUCKERS) will not effect the money strapped state citizen.

    After jettisoning their own industries to other countries, mandating law against local businesses thus bankrupting them and passing laws that make it impossible to do anything lawful in the USA we are now going to give a free pass to truckers up from Mexico while slamming the gavel down on the American Citizen Trucker. Traffic cops today are revenue collectors....They are assuming the role of tax collectors while the UN will assume the militaryesque enforcement of civil obedience.

    You can kick me off the political board but you can't kick the politics out of me. And this is tapping a se;ect group to collect money from. Imagine if the police where to ticket SUV's and nothing else?
     
  9. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    The last time I checked...The cops pull over and write tickets to people in cars, SUV's, motorcycles, pickup trucks and whatever form of vehichle that you can think of...

    Show me where they only write tickets to a select group for these types of violations.
     
  10. Brickman

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    CHP has a long history of pounding the truck drivers.
     
  11. blackw900

    blackw900 The Grandfather of Flatbed

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    Show me some proof! Other than truck driver stories about how the cop singled them out and wrote them for no reason.

    I've run California for pretty much all of my truckin' life and have NEVER recieved a ticket in California that I didn't have coming.
    The last ten years that I have been running out there on a regular basis I have not gotten any traffic violation or equipment violation or failed a DOT inspection at any of the so called bad scales.
    I've been inspected at Banning, Cordelia, Wheeler Ridge, Truckee, Sunol and Gilroy and have not been treated with anything but professionalism and respect!

    I think a lot of drivers have had problems with the CHP...But I think that they pretty much all contributed to their own problems in some way.
    I see how so many drivers act when they get pulled in and if I was in the cops shoes...I'd hammer them too!

    I've found over the years that if you act like an ####### you'll get treated like an #######!

    California is one of those places where if the speed limit is 55 they mean 55...If you push it, You may get away with it and you may not!
    Once these guys figure that out and act accordingly They'll have no problems out there!
     
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