Cali 55 mph

I drove for a couple years in CA, much of it local in the LA and High Desert area, and I did 65 mph constantly with no problems. I've been out in the third lane and had CHP pass me in the fourth lane without even a look. That is until the last 20 miles of the very last trip I ever drove commercially in CA. It's a cat and mouse game. Some times they're chasing and some times they aren't. Don't be surprised when it happens.

And no, you don't have to be doing something else for them to stop you. It's just part of the game of trucking.

That is still to this day the only stop I've never been able to talk my way out of a ticket.

 

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Yeah, forgot the thread title. I scrolled back a few posts and it was about speeding in Cali. As usual, things go off topic.

 

Not sure what year your truck/engine is but these newer models are designed to run at lower RPMs and provide better torque at those lower RPMs

 

So you never drive 1 mph over any speed limit?

 

To be frank, I try not to. I set the cruise for whatever the speed limit is and keep it there. Do I go over? Sure. But it is very short term. I either hit the Jakes or the foot pedal.

My post are in regards to those that blatantly exceed the speed limit and then think that's it's OK.

Whenever I hear or read that so & so state allows you x amount over the speed limit, I chuckle.

All 50 states have statutes (that's the official state law on the books). That means that all state police (highway patrol, state troopers, etc.) CAN AND WILL give out tickets for 1 mph over posted speed. Do they? Not usually, but they do.
Most county and local jurisdictions will give an allowance before issuing citations. Usually 5-10 mph over posted speed, but not always.

Too many times I have spoken to drivers that complained that they were issued a ticket for 60 in a 55. Well, you were speeding. Doesn't matter that all the other times you flew by the officer at 62. That day, he felt like enforcing the law ad's was entirely within his legal right to do so.
My best friend got popped for 57 in a 55 in Oregon. He tried the usual "come on, it's only 2 mph over" bit, but the officer replied, the speed limit is 55, not 57. Perhaps that officer was having a bad day. I dunno, but the bottom line is my buddy was wrong and the officer had him dead to rights. $250 for being slightly over.

Speeding isn't gonna get me anything other than possibly a ticket and definitely worse fuel economy.

Everyone drives the way they want to and that's fine, but please don't whine and complain about getting busted that one time. You made a choice to exceed the posted speed limit.

 

In utah. The 5 MPH leeway went by by when speed limit upped to 75. Don't expect a free 1 MPH over anymore.

It's 80 now. And I have a friend who recently got popped for 82. In her car. Going to Vegas.