What’s the best app for speed traps.

Don't forget the fact they are in their 30's and still living at home in their folk's basement..

 

When I was in my late teens early 20's, (late 70's/ early 80's) I started learning the construction trades. The old timers that were teaching me had high expectations. They didn't/wouldn't put up with this whiney/safe space crap. Ill never forget the old guy that taught me plumbing. Pete...... They called him Pete the Plumber. This is what he told me on day one. "I've forgotten more about plumbing than you will ever know". These guys knew their trade. I listened, got yelled at, got butt hurt on more than one occasion, but......... I learned how to do top notch quality work. The trades today are filled with Mexicans..... Legal and Illegal that don't give Two S#!ts about quality of any sort. Wages have been driven so low in the trades that you cant make a living anymore. That my friends is why I am driving a TRUCK!!

 

They are filling up the trucking industry also. 99% of them are doing the ports and rails out here in the west coast.

 

Run as fast as your billfold will let you.

 

Well, guess I'm staying home

 

Here's a thought on this, as someone who does have a faster company truck (81mph), learn to pay attention, drop your phone, keep your eyes open, if you run the same roads all the time, learn to watch for the cops, and learn what "grace" they will give you, learn where they like to hide, learn where nature likes to hide, learn to recognize what the backend of a cop car looks like at day or night. See the racetrack taillights of a Charger/Durango at night, SLOW DOWN until you confirm it's not a cop, during the day learn to look for concealed antenna housings (although some of the new Durango PPV have zero external antenna other than Sirius). Learn to tell the difference between a soccer moms Tahoe vs a Trooper Tahoe, learn the difference between a civilian Explorer and an unmarked PPV Explorer, and the states that run F-150, Ram's and Silverado's as either a trooper or a sheriff, well, in some cases, good luck, in other cases, you'll get lucky. Oh, and and on those backroads, that's some Sheriff or Locals home turf, he knows the hidey holes, and a lot of them now use "ghost" decals to help blend in. And when you see those vehicles, if you can't tell for certain, SLOW DOWN.

Regardless of the road, if you're speeding and you haven't seen a cop in a long time, SLOW DOWN, because that simply means they've got a good hidey hole and a ticket with your name on it.

On the interstate, they'll typically give you 5 over, depending on the state and the interstate stretch. Texas was the first state to raise to 80 mph, but when they did, they went from a 5 mph grace to a 2 mph grace (speedo correction), guess what, traffic stops went up. Wyoming is the same way, 80 mph on 80/25/90, they'll give you 82 or 83, but at 85 you're probably getting pulled over. Colorado will never raise the limit, but CSP will admit that the average speed on I-76 NE of Ft. Morgan is 82 mph, and 82 mph is the max they will let you run before the lights start flashing, a few of those troopers will stop you at 80 mph in a big truck. Now, New Mexico is a whole different story, 75 mph speed limit, enforcement begins around 90 mph, 80 mph if the trooper is bored, 90 mph if he's not.

There are parts of Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas where the troopers will give you 3 mph, and there are parts where they will give you 5 mph, that speed limit sign in some po-dunk little town, yeah, go 1 mph less than what it says because Barney's radar gun probably isn't calibrated correctly or "your speedo is off driver".

Also, on most of those backroads, the cops aren't the hazard, nature is. Running CO 159 from San Luis to Taos the other morning, highway signs say "OPEN RANGE" with a picture of a cow, 100 yds down the road, next sign says "OPEN RANGE" with the picture of a horse, both say next 19 miles, not 5 miles down the road there's 20 horses on both shoulders munching on grass and a couple in the middle of the road, and they flat out didn't give a #### about my airhorn. I slowed to a crawl and crept through them, they moved, slowly. Just before the NM state line, there's a heard of elk standing in the field watching traffic go by.

Also, learn to use "bait", sometimes that "bait" might be stupider than you, and sometimes that "bait" might be smarter (radar/laser detector) than you, and keeps both of you out of trouble. Personally, on 2 lanes, I'm a big fan of "bait".

 

Don't know how many times I've had cruise set at 5-8 over and had some "bear bait" blow by me.....I just smile and silently thank them for clearing the path.

 

I like it. I've always called them "point men". Thanks for running point, buddy.

 

Fast trucks thins the herd of idiots. Those points on license make them uninsurable
Super trucker got nabbed this week. 40 km over in a small town. License suspended. Truck impounded and the clown only 24 years old.
Only idiots think speeding will get them any further the end of day.

 

It became popular when the internet news sites started treating it like actual news .

becoming offended and outraged at the smallest thing , gets you screen time and clicks and followers and thus, money.

and now everyone kowtows to anyone who is outraged and makes demands.

Like that college that moved a 50 ton racist Boulder because some student got offended about what some newspaper article that was published 108 years ago said .