How many moving violations have you gotten?

[Ideologue]

I'm glad I could serve a socially useful function, you jerk.

[DontSayBanana]

I'm glad I could serve a socially useful function, you jerk.

Just like I serve a socially useful function in being the village idiot.

[Phillip V]

Went to court today, plead not guilty to reckless driving, and questioned the officer's vision.

Judge reduced charge to non-moving violation of "defective equipment". My record remains clean with no points.

[Malthus]

I've never been stopped. Which is odd, as I speed all the time. 

[Caliga]

I've never been stopped. Which is odd, as I speed all the time. 

Same.  I figure cops see my car and go "That dude is too important for us to mess with."

[sbr]

I've never been stopped. Which is odd, as I speed all the time. 

Same.  I figure cops see my car and go "That dude is too important for us to mess with."

I was always surprised how contractor vehicles seem invisible to cops.  I flew past many, many cops in my old company truck and was never pulled over.

[MadImmortalMan]

People who drive for a living can get their lives messed up if they get violations. Maybe the cops were trying not to be dicks. Unlikely, but you never know.


OTOH, those commercial tickets are big $$, and I see 18-wheelers pulled over on the freeway all the time.

[Ideologue]

Bet they don't pull over Los Pollos Hermanos trucks.

[CountDeMoney]

OTOH, those commercial tickets are big $$, and I see 18-wheelers pulled over on the freeway all the time.

They're usually pulled over for inspection, which doesn't always result in a citation.

[Admiral Yi]

Isn't that what weigh stations are for?

[CountDeMoney]

For interstate transportation, yeah, they're supposed to hit the weigh stations but some routes require mobile inspections, like those that lead to tunnels and bridges.

[garbon]

When are weigh stations generally open? Very rarely have I ever seen one that was not closed.

[CountDeMoney]

They have fruity hours at all of them, but they have to stop at them when they're open if they're pulling 10 tons or more, though.  If they're closed, no biggie.  Once in a while you'll see one open in the middle of the night. 

[PDH]

The I-25 one on the Wyoming Colorado border (boarder?) is open all the time.

[merithyn]

What's the whole "point" thing that you guys are talking about?

I don't think we have that system here.