In reply to ScreaminE:
Grew up in Ohio, learned to drive in Ohio, got my first dozen or so tickets in Ohio...Virginia is worse.
In reply to ScreaminE:
Grew up in Ohio, learned to drive in Ohio, got my first dozen or so tickets in Ohio...Virginia is worse.
ScreaminE wrote: Have you ever traveled through Virginia?
Yep. Got the 59 in a 55 ticket to prove it.
Or how about I94 from Hudson,WI all the way east through the state to Milwaukee and towards Chicago.
logdog wrote:ScreaminE wrote: Have you ever traveled through Virginia?Yep. Got the 59 in a 55 ticket to prove it.
Maryland is pretty bad too
logdog wrote: I was working a teen driving clinic last summer with a Michigan State Police officer. We were chatting it up and I asked if he had any idea why Ohio (where I had lived for 15 years) had troopers out the wazoo radaring, but I rarely that in Michigan. He said it was because in Michigan the state police are not just traffic enforcement like the Ohio Highway patrol. He said they had more important things to do than hand out speeding tickets. I dont know if it was 100% true but it made me laugh.
That is mostly true. In Ohio the Patrols main job is traffic enforcement but in a lot of other states the HP is the highest level police force in the state. What I have been told is that all of the local Sheriffs will not let the Patrol be more that traffic cops.
Hmm... when my buddy and I drove across PA and through northern Ohio to buy my Spitfire in Michigan, we both noted how few cops we saw in Ohio and how pleasant the traffic was: everyone pretty much doing the speed limit (70) and staying to the right. From PA to Toledo and back the next day, we saw one cop on the highway.
My dad had a story from when he was going to a CORSA Convention in New York in the mid 70s. He and a few others were traveling in a convoy through Ohio and just as they passed Toledo on the turnpike, three state troopers got on the highway and proceeded to drive 55 in all three lanes slowing down traffic. They did it for about 60 miles, then turned around in the median and did the same thing heading back towards Toledo.
I once was pulled over four times in about an hour one night on my way home from work, I've never got a ticket in Ohio though. Indiana, illinois, Missouri and Iowa on the other hand...
logdog wrote: I was working a teen driving clinic last summer with a Michigan State Police officer. We were chatting it up and I asked if he had any idea why Ohio (where I had lived for 15 years) had troopers out the wazoo radaring, but I rarely that in Michigan. He said it was because in Michigan the state police are not just traffic enforcement like the Ohio Highway patrol. He said they had more important things to do than hand out speeding tickets. I dont know if it was 100% true but it made me laugh.
Yeah, you've gotta go by a MSP car parked in the median doing at least 10 over the limit(or 5-10 over the mean speed if things are really flying) to even start to grab attention. In my younger and dumber days I would occasionally forget where they liked to hide, come well within radar range at 85-90mph, see them, get on the brakes, get in the right lane at 65 or so and wait for them to come pull me over, they never did. I guess acknowledging their presence and slowing down was good enough in their book. Keep in mind I was also driving a rough looking bright red Sunfire and looked like white Jesus at the time.
Your mileage may vary with out of state plates.
Funny you guys posted this thread. My father-in-law got an 79 in a 70 over the weekend in Ohio. Found this out last night. They must have really been out with a score to settle on Sunday. He got the ticket on I-70 East just outside of Zanesville.
HappyAndy wrote:logdog wrote:Maryland is pretty bad tooScreaminE wrote: Have you ever traveled through Virginia?Yep. Got the 59 in a 55 ticket to prove it.
Agreed.
logdog wrote:ScreaminE wrote: Have you ever traveled through Virginia?Yep. Got the 59 in a 55 ticket to prove it.
I {try to} give law enforcement the utmost respect and benefit of the doubt, but when they are out aggressively ticketing drivers for hardly speeding, it gets really hard to give that respect.
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