I’ve found this to be true
Full size trucks are impervious to speeding tickets. I can concur. When I’m tooling about in the Ford Earthfuckertm during the day, I can do 20 miles over the limit right past a parked police officer and they don’t even look up.
October 4th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Not in my county. I got caught doing 15 over and the judge asked, “where were you going in such a hurry?”
I told him point blank I had no idea, and that I was just tooling along enjoying the weather when I got pulled over.
No points. But that’s the law in Maryland provided you show up and pay the fine, so long as you were clean before you got there.
My county is probably 65% truck/Earth-fucker. If they didn’t pull us over, they’d never pay for anything.
October 4th, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Not so much in heartland Fla either. Lots of rich kids around here choose jacked up oil burners instead of a GT or SS and they get grabbed a lot.
Yet in my black F-150 on factory 20’s and diamondplate behind-cab box I can and have whistled past even patrol wolf-packs whose whole raison d etere is tag-team ticket production at twenty or even thirty over and never get a glance.
But I don’t credit the truck, it’s me they don’t want. I know this because I get the same response when driving wife’s flashy little red Benz C300 AMG, putting the lie not just to the vehicle theory but the old saw about red as a cop target.
See, in addition to a crop of indigenous redneck Southrons, we’ve got a yuge retiree influx, and those crazy old bastards never get stopped for anything because if they pulled them over for every stupid road trick,, that’s all they’d ever do. And even if they write them up, the judge will let ’em walk, f’ing up their close rate.
And having been prematurely white-headed since about 40, I’ve been the recipient of the same, whaddaya gonna do, let ’em go attitude. And now of course hitting early SS age this year I fit right in with the rest of the lawless Q-Tip brigade.
I’m like Trump. He can shoot somebody on Main Street with no repercussions, and I can fly down Main at 60 in a 40 without a second look, no matter what I drive.
October 5th, 2016 at 7:42 am
What’s a “full-size” truck? I have had cops tell me that they avoid writing tickets to CDLs (commercial drivers license) because that’s messing with their livelihood.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:16 am
I have an 7-year old Mazda SUV that seems pretty invisible to the cops. I got a ticket when it was about a week old and nice and shiny – the cop even complemented me on the color. Since then, nothing (knocking on wood). And I typically cruise between 70 and 80 on the highway.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:49 am
Certainly not mini-trucks. Every speeding ticket I’ve ever got in my life was in a Ford Ranger.
Of course I deserved them….
October 5th, 2016 at 9:21 am
Full size trucks would range from halftons up to one ton duallys. In old Chevy nomenclature, from C10 on the bottom (2wd, halfton) to K30 (four wheel drive, one ton). F150 to f350 for Fords. The SUVs built off the same chassis, such as suburbans, excursions and ramchargers, are also considered fullsizes. If it requires a cdl, it fits into a bigger class.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:40 am
@JTC: The flip side is that if you have out of state plates in heartland Florida, you are toast. The 301 corridor between I-10 and I-75 (Alachua, Ocala, etc.) is damn near the Ho Chi Minh Trail for out-of-town plates. Those local jacked up oil burners can ride dumb all day and get away with it. My SUV with MD plates (company car) will get tagged at 3 over the limit (twice).
It’s about the money. Locals would toss the Sheriff if he used them as his piggy bank, so they nail every trucker and out-of-state plate instead. Looking at the number of boarded up businesses, tickets appear to be prime funding for the local constabulary.
FWIW, we’ve gotten warnings a few times once they saw a FL license. It’s embarrassingly obvious what they are doing.
October 5th, 2016 at 12:40 pm
I have big-truck envy. My F-150 extra-cab is like the smallest truck around here in Redneck Cattle-land so I have to be cautious. My next truck is gonna be a F-350 dually.
October 5th, 2016 at 4:13 pm
2005 Ford Excursion Diesel.
I typically run 10-19 over through WV & Ohio, no problem.
Note to travelers, whatever you do, don’t get caught doing 81 plus in Virginia. Or 11 mph over anywhere.
In Virginia, reckless driving is a Class 1 misdemeanor. A Class 1 misdemeanor is the misdemeanor with the most severe potential punishment. A person convicted of a Class 1 misdemeanor may be sent to jail for not more than twelve months and/or fined not more than $2,500.
For speeding. So much for Sic Semper Tyrannis.
October 5th, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Patrick, 301 is used to avoid profiling for out of state dope mules that LE routinely runs on 95 as that backroad route conveniently connects main drug centers of Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Tampa.
Yes they want money, but not so much from tickets; they want to use the seizure laws to take the dope, cash, and vehicles. Speeding is their probable cause to pull you over and maybe search the vehicle if you look like a promising prospect upon contact.
Out of state tags (especially rental/lease vehicles like most company cars), taking that back route, and especially with tinted windows? Yep, you fit the profile; they play the percentages. And if they’re wrong, they’ll still write a ticket to cover their real goal and also to make the agency a few bucks.
Again, but in a different context, it’s not the vehicle that is the target so much as who or what they think the driver might be.
October 6th, 2016 at 8:10 am
The company I work for makes laser speedguns. For a long time, Ohio was one of our very best customers. Just sayin.
October 6th, 2016 at 8:50 am
1st moving violation in 22 years was a few months ago in my F250.
70 in a 55, written at 60 in a 55, so I guess I was kind of let off the books. Oddly, I’ve flown up the same road on my bike much closer to 80 and the cops juts waved….