What’s the best app for speed traps.

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  1. Shackdaddy

    Shackdaddy Medium Load Member

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    I drive a slow as molasses company truck.
    Couldn’t speed in it if I wanted to.

    I’m going on an out of state road trip in my SUV. Time will be tight so I may have to cannonball run this bich.
     
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  3. Omar2018

    Omar2018 Bobtail Member

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    Waze and the speed app for iPhone, it’s green and red it also has 55mph on it.I used it for a couple months when my Speedometer wasn’t working.
     
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  4. CargoWahgo

    CargoWahgo Road Train Member

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    Can you call Tennessee and let them know that. It's like they have a one sign per 100 mile rule or something.
    :D
     
  5. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    WAZE is the only app I know of that shows speed traps

    if you have the sound on, it also tells you about every broken down car on the shoulder , which in a metro area is very annoying .


    You can just ask on the cb every half hour or so .

    I use WAZE for the speed traps warning but I also glance at Google maps every 30-45 minutes to check for major backups , if you turn on the traffic jam feature in the menu in Google maps it shows the roads in green yellow or red , depending on the speed of the traffic .

    If speeding is your thing , you could also get a good radar detector like the Valentine ,that’s invisible to the VG2 radar detector detector , and install it in a hollowed out external CB speaker
    And modify the wires so the radar detector is powered from the CB . So you can switch it on and off with a knob or button on the cb

    that’s what I did when I was hauling reefers with bananas, and had to average 70-72 mph to make the trip in the time allotted .
    I also had a warmed up big cam Cummins & 13 speed that would pull 80k up most any hill at 70 mph .

    but nowdays it’s just not worth it . there’s speed cops every few miles it seems like .

    and every little podunk town has extended their city limits to include a half mile of the interstate so they can rake in the cash .
     
  6. Ridgeline

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    Michigan requires a speed limit sign on any street or road within so many feet of an intersection and at regular intervals but I think they ran out of signs back in 1986.

    this is a state that finally corrected the signs on 696 for 75 ramps, it only took them 40 years.
     
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  7. Kyle G.

    Kyle G. Road Train Member

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    I don’t mean to derail the thread, but am I the only one who hates the term “speed trap?” Like it’s a trap that any innocent person can just fall into and get eaten.
     
  8. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    Speed limit signs work fine for around town/construction zones

    out on the big road I never even get a second look at 5 over up here and that’s more then enough for me
     
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  9. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    That’s a term that is appropriate to use when they hide .
    Or when they sit 50 feet beyond the reduction in speed sign .

    when they hide , it’s not about safety , it’s about money .

    When a “town” with 1200 population, extends their city limits three miles so they can get a mile of interstate in the city limits and then they sit there all day and all night running radar in a stretch of road that has no efficient on the “safety “ of their tiny little town , it’s about the money .
     
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  10. buzzarddriver

    buzzarddriver Road Train Member

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    Hire a guy in a black Pontiac Firebird to run your front door.
     
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  11. Tall Mike

    Tall Mike Road Train Member

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    Lets try using the CB radio again..
     
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