Entertianment while mowing today

[37chief]

I got my tractor off the trailer and made one mowing round. Up pulls a California Highway Patrol. and parks across the street. I begin to wonder if he is there to see me. Maybe my missing shovel fell off my trailer and killed someone. He stayed in his patrol car. I made a few more rounds. I guess he isn't there to see me. In a few minutes on goes all his lights. He pulled a car over coming towards him, I guess he was using radar to catch speeders. This wet on for over an hour. He issued a few tickets, and ruined the day for a few people. The CHP are the ones I never want to get stopped by around here. I try my best to keep every thing ship shape, but by the time they crawl over your truck and trailer I am sure they will find a few things wrong. I have seen them pull out scales to weigh equipment, not mine. Does your state have patrol cars you would rather not be stopped by? Stan

 

[504]

Since I drive a Hazmat truck, I expect to be pulled over every day. I was pulled over 3 times in 4 weeks by two different officers in two different states. But since the ww flu I have not been stopped,I am way over due.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Since I drive a Hazmat truck, I expect to be pulled over every day. I was pulled over 3 times in 4 weeks by two different officers in two different states. But since the ww flu I have not been stopped,I am way over due.

If I interpret that correctly, the same officer stopped you twice?

 

[Tony in SD]

I have observed that most female officers seem to be way to serious about their jobs.

 

[john in la]

I just wish laws were enforced equally across the board.
If it is legal to stop me and give me a full inspection.
Then ultimately give me a ticket because this one clearance light you found burned out is such a hazard to the general public using the same road as me.
Then it should be just as legal to stop any car on the road and give them the same run around.

Since I drive at night 488 miles at work and 100 miles to and from work one thing I have noticed a lot lately is people driving with no lights on.
The daytime driving lights that come on automatically when you start the car is enough to light up the road so they forget to turn on the headlights.
This gives them no tail lights what so ever.
And most people today are so oblivious to their surroundings they have no idea why others are honking and flashing their high beam lights at them.

 

[Steve in VA]

I just wish laws were enforced equally across the board.
If it is legal to stop me and give me a full inspection.
Then ultimately give me a ticket because this one clearance light you found burned out is such a hazard to the general public using the same road as me.
Then it should be just as legal to stop any car on the road and give them the same run around.

Since I drive at night 488 miles at work and 100 miles to and from work one thing I have noticed a lot lately is people driving with no lights on.
The daytime driving lights that come on automatically when you start the car is enough to light up the road so they forget to turn on the headlights.
This gives them no tail lights what so ever.
And most people today are so oblivious to their surroundings they have no idea why others are honking and flashing their high beam lights at them.

I completely agree with you on DRLs
In Virginia, if your wipers are on then your headlights must be on too. Makes since to me. But probably 50% of the vehicles I encounter during rain or fog are just DRLs. That said, some of the nonsense I see makes lights seem oddly minor. Just yesterday I was stopped at a light while a woman in a Buick pulled up in the left turn lane/light beside me. No turn signal. Pulled a full car length into the intersection . Sitting there joyously chatting away on the phone in the hand. Unconscious to everyone and everything else.

 

[sms]

I got my tractor off the trailer and made one mowing round. Up pulls a California Highway Patrol. and parks across the street. I begin to wonder if he is there to see me. Maybe my missing shovel fell off my trailer and killed someone. He stayed in his patrol car. I made a few more rounds. I guess he isn't there to see me. In a few minutes on goes all his lights. He pulled a car over coming towards him, I guess he was using radar to catch speeders. This wet on for over an hour. He issued a few tickets, and ruined the day for a few people. The CHP are the ones I never want to get stopped by around here. I try my best to keep every thing ship shape, but by the time they crawl over your truck and trailer I am sure they will find a few things wrong. I have seen them pull out scales to weigh equipment, not mine. Does your state have patrol cars you would rather not be stopped by? Stan

NY made DOT a revenue source. They have crews out constantly pulling trucks over or inspection stops. My friend did a job moving 80k yards of dirt and they were there every day stopping his trucks making him sweep the road after every truck pulled out ect. Had all the tickets on his office wall so he didn't forget to appear. Many were nonsense like a mudflap 1/4 inch too short.

 

[M-MAN]

I just wish laws were enforced equally across the board.
If it is legal to stop me and give me a full inspection.
Then ultimately give me a ticket because this one clearance light you found burned out is such a hazard to the general public using the same road as me.
Then it should be just as legal to stop any car on the road and give them the same run around.

Since I drive at night 488 miles at work and 100 miles to and from work one thing I have noticed a lot lately is people driving with no lights on.
The daytime driving lights that come on automatically when you start the car is enough to light up the road so they forget to turn on the headlights.
This gives them no tail lights what so ever.
And most people today are so oblivious to their surroundings they have no idea why others are honking and flashing their high beam lights at them.

If an automobile has a light out its just as legal. That's the quickest way to get stopped here.

As another poster mentioned traffic stops still aren't back to normal even after 4 years. A regular trooper doesn't bother with trucks anyway. That's a separate division here. In the old days when the pulpwood yards were open they had a lot more officers.

 

[wjytexas]

I got my tractor off the trailer and made one mowing round. Up pulls a California Highway Patrol. and parks across the street. I begin to wonder if he is there to see me. Maybe my missing shovel fell off my trailer and killed someone. He stayed in his patrol car. I made a few more rounds. I guess he isn't there to see me. In a few minutes on goes all his lights. He pulled a car over coming towards him, I guess he was using radar to catch speeders. This wet on for over an hour. He issued a few tickets, and ruined the day for a few people. The CHP are the ones I never want to get stopped by around here. I try my best to keep every thing ship shape, but by the time they crawl over your truck and trailer I am sure they will find a few things wrong. I have seen them pull out scales to weigh equipment, not mine. Does your state have patrol cars you would rather not be stopped by? Stan

I have been stopped a few times by Texas Highway Patrol and here in Travis County for minor traffic infractions and have always found then to be polite and professional. I am always polite in return. So far since 1969 I have received several verbal warnings and a couple of written warnings but no $$$ involved. A few years ago I was hauling a couple of "was running when parked" tractors south on I 27 from Amarillo and a Texas Trooper came alongside and matched me a few miles then moved on. I guess I passed a rolling inspection.

 

[marloweg]

I got my tractor off the trailer and made one mowing round. Up pulls a California Highway Patrol. and parks across the street. I begin to wonder if he is there to see me. Maybe my missing shovel fell off my trailer and killed someone. He stayed in his patrol car. I made a few more rounds. I guess he isn't there to see me. In a few minutes on goes all his lights. He pulled a car over coming towards him, I guess he was using radar to catch speeders. This wet on for over an hour. He issued a few tickets, and ruined the day for a few people. The CHP are the ones I never want to get stopped by around here. I try my best to keep every thing ship shape, but by the time they crawl over your truck and trailer I am sure they will find a few things wrong. I have seen them pull out scales to weigh equipment, not mine. Does your state have patrol cars you would rather not be stopped by? Stan

when i had my dump truck got stopped 3 time on the same day by the same state trooper and all 3 times i was empty and not one ticket .47 years of hauling never got a ticket

 

[Gambles]

Now, this didn't happen to me, but this story is told by the local mechanic who used to be a long-haul trucker. He will tell you exactly where it happened and he says he has the paperwork to prove it. (Although I've never seen the paperwork. )
It was a Friday afternoon and the trucker was finishing up his hauling and was an hour away from home. He was also one hour away from having to shut his truck down because of the legal daily driving hours was about up.
He gets pulled over by the popo for an inspection check. The guy pulling him over also tells him that he has another popo with him in training, so it might take a little while longer than normal to do an inspection. So both guys are swarming over his truck, very slowly, for 90 minutes and find nothing. When the trucker comments that it took so long and nothing was written up , the cop gets a little bit of an attitude and decides to write him up for his load not being secure enough and also takes his sweet time writing up the ticket. After all that, the trucker has sat there for over two hours. He then comments that he is over his hourly limit and won't make it home in time to see his wife and kids that Friday night. Mr. Law Enforcement kindly tells him that he will escort him into the nearest town that has a truck stop and he can spend the night there.
Are there some biased holes in this story? Probably. But I have a niece who is a state trooper and her previous and current husband are also in law enforcement and you hear stories around the dinner table during Christmas and Thanksgiving that make me believe stuff like that happens.

 

[Turkeyfoot]

I have been stopped a few times by Texas Highway Patrol and here in Travis County for minor traffic infractions and have always found then to be polite and professional. I am always polite in return. So far since 1969 I have received several verbal warnings and a couple of written warnings but no $$$ involved. A few years ago I was hauling a couple of "was running when parked" tractors south on I 27 from Amarillo and a Texas Trooper came alongside and matched me a few miles then moved on. I guess I passed a rolling inspection.

Or he was reminiscing over that tractor that looks like the one he drove on grandpa's farm when he was a kid

 

[Factotum]

Ministry of transportation has their own police here in Ontario. 2500 series truck with a trailer, you're a big target. If you get stopped expect several thousands in fines. There's a good chance even with all brand new equipment you will have forgotten something. Something simple as a log book or whatever. Then they'll lecture you on how bad of a person you are for not filling out the log book to the minute. They especially go after the landscapers and lawn maintenance guys. They always have something wrong. Safety is usually not something they look for. They get you on a technicality. Nice money grab.

 

[Russ from MN]

I have observed that most female officers seem to be way to serious about their jobs.

If we are paying them to do a job, shouldn't they be serious about it????? If they keep getting killed on the job it's going to get really expensive to hire anyone. 2 officers and a paramedic killed in MN this morning! But we need more guns!

 

[1948CaseVAI]

If we are paying them to do a job, shouldn't they be serious about it????? If they keep getting killed on the job it's going to get really expensive to hire anyone. 2 officers and a paramedic killed in MN this morning! But we need more guns!

As a police Lt who drove a patrol car for 21 years I can tell you that your comment that was intended to be sarcastic about guns, is exactly correct. We need more good people with guns to neutralize the bad ones with guns.

 

[Russ from MN]

As a police Lt who drove a patrol car for 21 years I can tell you that your comment that was intended to be sarcastic about guns, is exactly correct. We need more good people with guns to neutralize the bad ones with guns.

There were about 800 law enforcement at the parade in KC recently, and there were still multiple casualties, don't tell me more guns is the solution!

 

[NoDakInMN]

There were about 800 law enforcement at the parade in KC recently, and there were still multiple casualties, don't tell me more guns is the solution!

Last I checked politics was supposed to be off limits here.

 

[Brown David]

Last I checked politics was supposed to be off limits here.

Politics haven't entered the picture yet IMO.

Yet is the key word.

 

[Hoofer B]

I just wish laws were enforced equally across the board.
If it is legal to stop me and give me a full inspection.
Then ultimately give me a ticket because this one clearance light you found burned out is such a hazard to the general public using the same road as me.
Then it should be just as legal to stop any car on the road and give them the same run around.

Since I drive at night 488 miles at work and 100 miles to and from work one thing I have noticed a lot lately is people driving with no lights on.
The daytime driving lights that come on automatically when you start the car is enough to light up the road so they forget to turn on the headlights.
This gives them no tail lights what so ever.
And most people today are so oblivious to their surroundings they have no idea why others are honking and flashing their high beam lights at them.

Yeah or one tire that is a bit low. Hey. We have 17 that are good

 

[jon f mn]

I hate to say it, but the state patrol in my state is by far the worst of any state. I've dealt with state officers all over the country and the vast majority were just doing their job. Minnesota officers were most likely to say or do something incredibly dumb.