Ticketed for speeding ??

Hmmm.... Been driving... gosh about 45 years (two of those 'provisional with adult' 16 to 18 y old). Never been pulled over behind the wheel... Always watch those mirrors for what is around me, like cops- and don't drive offensively. Maybe just good luck, hope I didn't jinx myself... Stupid tickets easy to avoid? Always full stop at stop signs. Don't gun the yellow light. Don't jump the green light. Saving a second or two is just plain silly because it amounts to zip and increases your chance of getting a ticket. Can't afford tickets, insurance is way too high already. No I don't drive like granny, I just don't do the things that attract unwanted attention. Never owned a red car (is that a myth?) or a 'muscle' car either. Just Toyota's and one Subaru (big mistake that was).
I've gone plenty fast on the highway, but made sure to not scoot around lanes or go faster than everyone else. Just blend in and don't get noticed. And don't get tickets.

 

I've had one ticket. I'm a slow driver and I typically leave early so I can enjoy a leisurely drive with my coffee and some music, I enjoy my drive time. However, this particular afternoon I was in a supercharged Buick on the 101 and it was a little too empty. They got me opening it up out of a curve

 

I surprisingly have only got one speeding ticket. Usually the cops can't catch me because their cars aren't 100% black.

I was doing 20 mph over the limit one morning on the way to work. Stupid, sure, but I was a contractor at the time and didn't want to be late. Next thing I know I was calling my boss saying I'll be late because I didn't want to be late.

The cop mentioned "You know your window tint isn't legal right"

Its too dark officer?

"You know your exhaust is pretty damn loud, I heard you way before I saw you. Sounds great, but probably illegal."

Yeah, I plan to change it for something more mellow. (At the time I had a flowmaster dumped, and it was way loud)

"You know you're in line for reckless, and doing that in a neighborhood where people might be jogging is just a bad idea. I understand you don't wanna be late though, so let's write you up for only 10mph over the limit?"

Yes sir, I won't even dispute that.

I paid it and took comedy traffic school.

I've had 2 failure to stops and 2 seatbelt tickets (in my 20s). Only one speeding.

 

First ticket I got was in my wife’s Toyota Celica in 85. Driving down from San Antonio to Lorado. Doing 75 and he came over the hill opposite of me with his lights on. When I saw him come across the middle kind of figured it out he wasn’t going after anyone heading north. Ended up getting a 75 dollar fine as my wife sat there chuckling at me.

 

My one ticket in about 15 years of driving came in May this year. I was working from home and went into the office really early one morning to pull some drawings, early enough that there was no traffic and I was actually able to hit a light green that's usually red for me. Turns out I was doing 82 kph (51 mph) in a 70 kph (45 mph) zone at the bottom of a hill, trying to maximize my fuel economy. I learned 2 things that day: 1. They had recently installed a speed camera at that light, something literally every single other person who drives that road found out the hard way. 2. The Tundra speedometer is accurate and doesn't read 2 kph high like in every other Asian car.

 

First one was back in 2000. I think 45 in a 35 or 50 in a 40. Either way, 10 over. Cop was just sitting in his usual spot getting his monthly total. I new once I saw him parked I was busted. I saw him pull into the street behind me and I started moving to the right lane (3 lane road) and pulled into a parking lot as he got behind me and lit me up. Did the whole "cool, calm, collected" thing except for the cool and calm part. I was 21 on my way to work. No talking him out of it or even given a warning. "Sign here please"


Second one was straight up bullshit. I was on the freeway in the carpool lane. Had a friend with me but he laid the passenger seat down to take a nap, so from behind looking through the back window it looked like there was just one person in my Tacoma. I was speeding, doing 80, but I was getting passed by cars in two other lanes. The CHiP pulled me over hoping to give me a ticket for driving solo in the carpool. Once I pulled over and he came to talk to me he saw my friend in the seat sleeping and the look on his face changed completely. He gave me the whole "You know why I pulled you over?" speech. I said "I thought it was funny that you pulled me over and not the people who were passing me". So he decided to look around my truck and saw there was no front license plate (which was really nothing at the time) and just tried to get me for anything but couldn't.

 

first ticket was when i was 20. took my grandmothers car to work to align it.. driving home i forgot that the speed limit went from 35 to 15 in a matter of feet... yea soo totally got busted. cop was cool. let me off with a seat belt violation..

then last year got pulled over for cutting off someone... granted that someone was a car 5 cars behind me.. but w/e end of the month quota pullover.

 

First ticket was really two in one. 101 MPH in a 55 zone and racing. The other kid was also pulled over. TX State Trooper told both of us that he watched us from the beginning and I won. I also got the biggest ticket. My boss drank coffee with the judge I had to see, must have said something to him about my stupidity, and the judge took it easy on me. Amarillo College for traffic school ($20) for the speeding and $50 + $6 court costs for the racing. Yeah. This was a long time ago.

 

My only ticket, speeding or otherwise was back when I was about 22. I’d left work early and was heading home to visit my folks for the weekend, about a five hour trip one way, or at least it was supposed to be. I was driving my not-so-stock ‘82 Jetta I had in those days, and I was making time and burning gas. I was on the home stretch, and partway into my second tank of premium when I rounded a corner and spotted the lightbar on the oncoming Crown Vic. in the fading light.

I pounded on my upgraded brakes, then headed straight to the shoulder as the cherries lit up. I then watched the cop make a five point turn on a road wide enough for an easy u-turn. Yeah, he was excited. And I was doomed.

Or so I thought. I’d been doing about 160 kph on an 80 kph road, so this isn’t going to be good. I soon found out that he clocked me at 142 kph, and after a lecture about safety, animals on the road at nightfall, and all sorts of wisdom, he gave me the minimum ticket at the time, $115. But he also said he’d send me the bill from the fire department if his radar didn’t stop smoking. He was pretty cool.

I completed my return trip at the posted speed limit, and it took 25 minutes longer and a tank of gas less. Hmm. I figured out that math, and it worked out to about $60/ hour in gas alone. Never-mind tickets and bills for fire suppression.

 

My worst speeding ticket was coming down the tehachapi pass heading east, right where the road opens up to just straight desert.
One of my customers from the Coachella area had called right at 10 at night and needed a part by 7 the next morning so I arranged to meet him at Kramer junction. I was in my new 2012 f-350 with a powerstroke and it was governed at 110. As soon as the road straightened out, I couldn’t see head lights anywhere, so I set the cruise a 109, I had made it all the to the billboard just before the junction and right as I passed it I saw the head lights followed by the red and blue turn on behind it. I just pulled over an waited for him to pull up. When I explained the situation he was real cool and only wrote me for 5 over, and told me he was working that section of road all night and wouldn’t be so nice if he caught me on my way back.
What was even crazier about that night is on my way home, between being tired after working a long day and then doing a crazy part run through the middle of the night, and freaked out from being pulled over at 110 mph. I wasn’t paying attention to the gas gauge and as I was coming into the south side of Bakersfield my gas light came on. Being a new truck to me I didn’t know how far I had before I was in trouble so I pulled into the nearest gas station. Right after I sat back in the truck after starting to pump diesel, 4 dudes in hoodies decided the rob the gas station. As soon as I saw them start to man handle the clerk I hung the pump up and got out of there after only getting a couple gallons of diesel. Obviously I called the cops as soon as I was driving.
Turned out to be a really sh!t 24 hours. I worked my normal 10 hour day, then left my shop around 11 to run the part and didn’t get home til around 4. Then my boss called me a 7 asking where I was and wanting me to come in.

 

I was probably 16 or so, doing 45 in a 35. I'm 41 and I think I've been pulled over 11 times. I think 2014 was the last one. I've been pulled over for various reasons, but the best one was probably for speeding in a parking lot. The majority of them were before I was 25.

The other times I've been pulled over since then have just been when I wasn't paying attention to my speed. I don't care much about speeding really. I just start drifting up there faster and happen by a cop.

To be perfectly up front here, I traded a 2016 Mustang GT in last year, and for the three years I commuted in it, at my very empty and desolate interstate on-ramp I very briefly took it to at least 120 almost every morning. 150 was the record. But my actual commuter pace was always normal. And in the tundra I would drive UNDER the speed limit if I could do it without everyone tailgating me.

 

Never pay a ticket. Always challenge. You’ll probably win. I am probably targeted because of my BAM exhaust.

 

Haha! good luck with that! I wrote over 300 citations in 2015 and only got 2 subpoenas.

 

I had just finished installing a set of Hooker headers on my new 1976 Bronco so I decided to go for a test drive before throwing on some Cherry Bombs. Our ranch was 3 miles west of town and didn't think I'd have any problem. Emphasis on "didn't think". 20 years old. I hit the hwy and nailed the gas pedal as soon as I hit the very long passing lane. I had no traffic going my way but I blasted by a Oregon state trooper going the opposite direction. I could see him hit his brakes in the rear view so I high tailed it. I managed to turn onto Tom Folley Rd. A logging road. I figured that trooper wouldn't look for me. I drove down a spur trail to Elk Creek and waited. After a half hour or so I drove back up the spur trail and when I got back to Tom Folley Rd that trooper was waiting for me. I got quite the lecture and an eluding and excessive noise ticket. Didn't get me for speeding. Our town had a Justice of the Peace that handled tickets. My best friend"s dad who lived not far from us. This would not go well at all actually and it didn't. The eluding charge got dropped after another very long lecture. Got chewed out actually. I paid $75 for the excessive noise. $75 was a lot of money in 1976. Was half my Bronco monthly payment. Fun times.

 

My first ticket was in 1990. I had a 1981 Datsun pickup. I was coming home from work and was cutting through a neighborhood. A cop was standing behind a tree with a radar gun. My speedometer wasn't working at the time. He stepped out from behind the tree and pointed at me to pull over. Got a ticket for doing 35mph in a 25mph zone. Less than a week later, I got a ticket from the SAME fucking cop in the SAME neighborhood. I was only doing 27mph and he STILL ticketed me. Bastard.

 

It was probably 1984, I was driving my red ‘72 Charger 400 magnum. My buddy and I were heading back to Mass from a restaurant in NH where we had a couple of drinks. It was pretty late and no one on the road. I was doing the speed limit, I think it was 60, as I approached an intersection with a red light my way. As I got close I could see that the opposite light was turning yellow. So being the genius that I was, I just kept on steady at 60 heading for the red light, hoping to freak out my buddy. As soon as my front bumper hit the intersection the light was green. Perfect timing.
What I didn’t notice was the NH state trooper up on top of the hill at that intersection watching the whole thing as I approached the intersection. Next thing of course I’m being lit up behind me. By the time I pulled over we had both crossed the line into Mass. He proceeded to get me out of the car and do sobriety tests. Walk a straight line, dropped his keys and had me pick them up and I think touch my nose. He informed me that I failed all three, I told him no way! I did not!
He went back to his car for a bit and then back to me, said something like, to take you in I’d need to call a Mass trooper, if your buddy is good to drive then he can take you home. Sure, I’m fine with him driving. That was it, we left. Still can’t figure out how that even happened. Those days are over for sure.

 

I roll up to lights that are about to turn green all the time...

 

No tickets yet. Hope to not have one. The ticket doesn't concern me as much as giving a green light for jacking up my insurance premiums. I just changed insurance, they went 5 years back and seemed kinda sad when I said I didn't have any infractions.

 

My high school buddies and I on our way to Myrtle Beach from VA. Post graduation celebration. 75 in a 55mph. That was considered reckless driving at the time, but I seem to remember it being reduced to 19 over... fine and points on license. Dead to rights.