Speeding ticket what should i do?
12-13-2014, 05:58 PM
#31
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: CA
Posts: 202
Around here though, the CHP don't seem to use their radars that way very often. They seem to just leave them on. I ran into the same practice on my motorcycle in Washington state where I detected a Ka band as I was approaching the crest of a small rise. A few hundred yards later I spotted the trooper parked in the shadow of a big tree on the other side of the road. I was the only vehicle on the road. Had I been speeding I would have been busted for sure, but the radar detector gave a good 1/2 mile heads up to check my speed. I've had many cases like this locally. There's a little pull out around a bend where the CHP will sit with their radar on. You can't see him there 'till it's too late, but my detector will pick him up well before I'm in sight.
Both of my detectors have paid for themselves several times over, so I would respectfully disagree with the sentiment that they are a waste of money.
12-13-2014, 06:10 PM
#32
12-13-2014, 06:59 PM
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12-15-2014, 12:12 AM
#36
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SoCal
Posts: 1,826
This.
Pay to play dude. I speed basically every time I drive in every car I own. I can't even make it to the gas station 3 miles up the road from me without hitting 65 (55mph posted limit). It is what it is.... Anyway, I usually get nailed about every 2 years; pay the fine and do the stupid online traffic school so it doesn't go on my record and jack up my insurance. Never fought a ticket because the honest truth is every one of them was well deserved. That said, I can't get caught speeding again until next June when I will again be eligible for traffic school.
Like others mentioned, never answer the "do you know how fast you were going" query. If you lie and try to say you thought you were doing the speed limit or come up with some number you think is reasonable that will just insult the officer's intelligence and he will cut you no slack - he knows exactly how f'n fast you were going. And if you admit out loud what your speedo read, that puts the officer in a place where he's pretty much obligated to write down that number. Probably best to reply by asking something like "what did you have me at, officer?". Put the ball back in his court and most of the time they will bump it down for you.
As an alternate solution to all of this, if you don't like speeding tickets then just follow the speed limit.
Pay to play dude. I speed basically every time I drive in every car I own. I can't even make it to the gas station 3 miles up the road from me without hitting 65 (55mph posted limit). It is what it is.... Anyway, I usually get nailed about every 2 years; pay the fine and do the stupid online traffic school so it doesn't go on my record and jack up my insurance. Never fought a ticket because the honest truth is every one of them was well deserved. That said, I can't get caught speeding again until next June when I will again be eligible for traffic school.
Like others mentioned, never answer the "do you know how fast you were going" query. If you lie and try to say you thought you were doing the speed limit or come up with some number you think is reasonable that will just insult the officer's intelligence and he will cut you no slack - he knows exactly how f'n fast you were going. And if you admit out loud what your speedo read, that puts the officer in a place where he's pretty much obligated to write down that number. Probably best to reply by asking something like "what did you have me at, officer?". Put the ball back in his court and most of the time they will bump it down for you.
As an alternate solution to all of this, if you don't like speeding tickets then just follow the speed limit.
