Made a road trip out to Ohio yesterday to pickup a car. About 5 hours each way. From Waynesboro, PA to Thornville, OH and back.
Guess how many cops I spotted during the drive?
Answer will be revealed Friday 7/6 at noon!
And, because what would this thread be without showing what I went to pickup, I present to you my newly acquired $500 1988 535i, 5-speed manual.
Bonus points if you can guess how much I spent on tolls!
Edit: Paid cash for the tolls, towed with my 2nd gen Cummins and 18ft open car trailer.
Too many and too much
About $80 on tolls, and in going to guess 50 cops.
354 miles. I'm going to guess 1 officer every 10 miles on average, so 35.
I just made nearly that same drive a few weeks ago, just a few hours deeper into Ohio. Assuming you got on the Turnpike at Blue Mountain, going to guess $69 in tolls. 50 cops is probably about right, considering the holiday.
About a dollar.
Having been on the receiving end of tickets in Ohio more than any other state although I've never lived anywhere near the state I'll guess 63 LEO and $55.00 tolls.
Wait... was the question how much you spent on tolls, or tickets?
Ohio: the nation's speed trap.
31 cops and $56 bucks in tolls
Appleseed said:Ohio: the nation's speed trap.
Got that right! With GA taking the 2nd spot. Last time I got a ticket in Ohio the officer bends down, looks at tire and says "good to see you've got speed rated tires on this". I was going over 90 MPH in a 71 Valiant with the incredibly powerful 225 slant 6 with 1 V carb on the opposite side of divided highway when I saw him come over the crest of a hill the opposite direction. Looked in my rear view to see him pulling a U turn on the wiiiide lawn separating the road so I backed off and pulled over before he needed to chase me down. Gave me ticket for 74 in 55 IIRC. "Just mail this in with your payment sir"
I drove from New Orleans to Houston July 3rd. Traffic was moving between 70 and 80 all the way. At the state line a guy in a bright red Mustang passed me going about 100 mph, just weaving in and out of traffic. I saw him again about 30 miles later, Texas State Trooper had him pulled over. This was the only police I saw on the drive and the Mustang was only person I saw driving stupid. I suspect a helicopter directed the Trooper to the guy because I saw a police helicopter fly over a few minutes before that.
some states are stupid like that. NJ is actually pretty lenient with a few towns thrown that aren't just to keep you on your toes
Trailered or drove one car out and two back, and cash or ezpass?
So the last trip I made across Ohio to get the engine from Patrick was 22 cops. That wasn't a holiday weekend, so I'll say we double that to 44.
I saw 39 from my trip from CO Springs to Austin yesterday so I'm going to go with that. My wife even got a visit by one for going 6 over. No ticket though.
Patrick said:Trailered or drove one car out and two back, and cash or ezpass?
Fair question, trailered, paid cash for the tolls.
I'll edit my earlier post to have that info.
I have no idea how many cops we passed in Ohio on the trip a couple weeks back, but it was easily a couple dozen. Oddly enough, it was the one cop we saw in PA who actually wrote me a ticket. 92 in a 70, but luckily he wrote me up for some no-points violation.
I recently did a 4,500km motorbike trip through BC. Number of cops seen? Two!
42 officers & $71 in tolls.
In before the lock! 
I live in Ohio, commute 120 miles a day and see 12-15 a day; funny enough every ticket I’ve had (lots of them) was in stated that start with I.
The answers!
Cops Spotted: 33
Winner(s): Tie! Doc Brown @ 31, STM317 @ 35. Both off by two, so it's a tie!
(Approximately half of them had someone pulled over already.)
Amount paid in tolls: $37.50
Winner: Not A Ta @ $55
(I was expecting a lot more in tolls, because last time I picked up a car in Ohio it had to be over $100 in tolls. I'm not complaining though!)
37.50 in tolls?damn. It's $19 from Irwin to Boardman and back without a trailer or big diesel truck.
Still 6% less than it will be next year
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