9 thoughts on “Much like Alabama, wanna be NASCAR racers.”
One officer told me that with the license plate character recognition readers that check every car that goes by for registration, wants, and warrants they have on police cars that they have no time to watch for speeders. The thing goes off all the time. They just go from one stop to another based on plate readings. He said they have a credit card machine in the car to collect unpaid tickets.
On another note I got pulled over in Alabama 25 years ago doing about 95 in a 65 zone. I pulled over promptly and was polite and they only wrote me up for 72 mph. That was the last ticket I got. Alabama is never what you think it is. In my experience people there are pretty nice. (I just don’t wear my Aggie Dad shirt when there)
“He said they have a credit card machine in the car to collect unpaid tickets.”
That should tell you all you need to know about traffic cops.
And driving across Texas at 55 isn’t a trip; it’s a career.
I always find it amusing how Texas and Oklahoma tagged vehicles can suddenly do the speed limit when hitting the Kansas borders. The ones from Missouri still haven’t figured it out or they have all kinds of money to throw away.
Rented a large V8 engine van for a vacation. I was driving with flow-of-traffic in Montana, which was a consistent 100 mph.
Back in ’73 I had just gotten out of Basic, spent a week home back in Spokane. While I was there I traded in my ’67 Camaro for a ’67 427 L88-engined Corvette and drove it to my duty Station in Minot ND. On the trip, I had a Montana Trooper pass me by at 90+, I was crusin’ at about 75.
All of a sudden, he hit the brakes, slowed down to get along side of me. I wondered what the heck I had done wrong, as the speed limit in Montana back then was “reasonable and prudent” during the day, 70 at night.
He was in a 440 Magnum, I’m in my 427 – he looks me in the eye, and gives the “GO” hand signal for street racers to punch it to see just how juiced you are… I dropped it to third, mashed the throttle, and waited until 125 to shift to fourth. Would you believe, he actually kept up with me until I shifted into fourth and started walking away from him? I shut it down (coasted) at 140 until the engine cooled down to resume my drive, he pulled up along side and gave me th OK signal and went back to crusing at 90+.
I’m thinking he was bored and just wanted to see what my Corvette would do. Never have had a problem with Montana State Troopers all these years.
Yes, it was a straight stretch of I-94 on the east side of the state. Just so ya know.
I miss that car.
You hit 100 in oregon and it’s an automatic license suspension.
Back when I moved to Alabama and was living about 30 miles South of Montgomery. my parents came out to visit with my wife and me, I went and picked them up at the airport in Atlanta. I borrowed an older 4 door LTD from a friend as me and my wife had 2 door pickups. I am cruising back and just past the Georgia/Alabama state line with the big visitor center on I-65. My mother was sitting in front and noticed several Georgia and Alabama Trooper cars with the officers sitting on hoods and BSing. She then looked down to the speedometer and gasped! We were doing 110mph and keeping up with traffic and she asked if the cops knew this? Yup, I told her we are in the South, everyone is a Dale Earnhardt down here… I told her if you were going the posted speed limit, that would attract their attention and it might get you rear-ended.
I love native Texan drivers but the have been losing majority for a few years.
One officer told me that with the license plate character recognition readers that check every car that goes by for registration, wants, and warrants they have on police cars that they have no time to watch for speeders. The thing goes off all the time. They just go from one stop to another based on plate readings. He said they have a credit card machine in the car to collect unpaid tickets.
On another note I got pulled over in Alabama 25 years ago doing about 95 in a 65 zone. I pulled over promptly and was polite and they only wrote me up for 72 mph. That was the last ticket I got. Alabama is never what you think it is. In my experience people there are pretty nice. (I just don’t wear my Aggie Dad shirt when there)
“He said they have a credit card machine in the car to collect unpaid tickets.”
That should tell you all you need to know about traffic cops.
And driving across Texas at 55 isn’t a trip; it’s a career.
I always find it amusing how Texas and Oklahoma tagged vehicles can suddenly do the speed limit when hitting the Kansas borders. The ones from Missouri still haven’t figured it out or they have all kinds of money to throw away.
Rented a large V8 engine van for a vacation. I was driving with flow-of-traffic in Montana, which was a consistent 100 mph.
Back in ’73 I had just gotten out of Basic, spent a week home back in Spokane. While I was there I traded in my ’67 Camaro for a ’67 427 L88-engined Corvette and drove it to my duty Station in Minot ND. On the trip, I had a Montana Trooper pass me by at 90+, I was crusin’ at about 75.
All of a sudden, he hit the brakes, slowed down to get along side of me. I wondered what the heck I had done wrong, as the speed limit in Montana back then was “reasonable and prudent” during the day, 70 at night.
He was in a 440 Magnum, I’m in my 427 – he looks me in the eye, and gives the “GO” hand signal for street racers to punch it to see just how juiced you are… I dropped it to third, mashed the throttle, and waited until 125 to shift to fourth. Would you believe, he actually kept up with me until I shifted into fourth and started walking away from him? I shut it down (coasted) at 140 until the engine cooled down to resume my drive, he pulled up along side and gave me th OK signal and went back to crusing at 90+.
I’m thinking he was bored and just wanted to see what my Corvette would do. Never have had a problem with Montana State Troopers all these years.
Yes, it was a straight stretch of I-94 on the east side of the state. Just so ya know.
I miss that car.
You hit 100 in oregon and it’s an automatic license suspension.
Back when I moved to Alabama and was living about 30 miles South of Montgomery. my parents came out to visit with my wife and me, I went and picked them up at the airport in Atlanta. I borrowed an older 4 door LTD from a friend as me and my wife had 2 door pickups. I am cruising back and just past the Georgia/Alabama state line with the big visitor center on I-65. My mother was sitting in front and noticed several Georgia and Alabama Trooper cars with the officers sitting on hoods and BSing. She then looked down to the speedometer and gasped! We were doing 110mph and keeping up with traffic and she asked if the cops knew this? Yup, I told her we are in the South, everyone is a Dale Earnhardt down here… I told her if you were going the posted speed limit, that would attract their attention and it might get you rear-ended.
I love native Texan drivers but the have been losing majority for a few years.
Mexicans taking over?