Anybody get more tickets because they drive these trucks??

[ubtripn]

Last week I am going into work passing a mall at 6am in the dark doing about 40. Police Officer issues me a ticket because the limit is 30. 30!!!!!! and there are no houses or anything around. Anyway, I take it because I was doing 40. Today I am driving the F250 in, same Police Office is on his bike in his spot and a van saws my doors off. Nothing. The Van must have been doing 50. Now in Idaho you can fight ticket but it costs extra which I don't agree with. There should be no financial imperative to just accept a ruling. But I am going to fight it anyway even though I will lose. Why, because I drove a white Outback for 7 years and reeived no tickets. 3 tickets this year in my Orange, loud, fast sounding truck. Sad truth is I never break 60 and I could not beat almost anything else in a race.

Do you get tickets for driving a, "Hotrod."???

[chopnchaneled]

Nope, Not yet.
Been pulled over cause the cop wanted to look at my truck, he had one like it.

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by ubtripn

Do you get tickets for driving a, "Hotrod."???

No.
I do drive a Blue, loud, fast sounding Olds.
Perhaps I drive slower? Sorry about your troubles.

Originally Posted by chopnchaneled

Nope, Not yet.
Been pulled over cause the cop wanted to look at my truck, he had one like it.

That happened to me too..scared the crap out of me when I first saw the blues and
wound up making a new friend.

[bk2life]

Red and bright orange have always historically been pulled over more than any other vehicle on the road.

what is special about your truck which is gaining the attention?

[ubtripn]

Thanks, I just don't want to become a magnet. In Boise all the speed limits are lower than a normal city plus we have twice the number of officers so it can be a real challenge.

[dohyde34]

Originally Posted by ubtripn

Thanks, I just don't want to become a magnet. In Boise all the speed limits are lower than a normal city plus we have twice the number of officers so it can be a real challenge.

are you really b**ching about boise?lol come over the hill to emmett, 25 cops for a town thats city limits is 5 miles wide. and all the are on huge power trips.

[bk2life]

here is what mine looked like about 8 months ago.

not a ticket ever, driven about 1-2 inch off the ground.

[Lee H]

Originally Posted by ubtripn

Orange, loud, fast sounding truck.

Do you get tickets for driving a, "Hotrod."???

You are a ticket magnet. To answer your question, no.

[ArkGL01]

I get stopped and they want to look at the truck. That sucks he wrote you a ticket.

[ubtripn]

I actually drive like I am on a motorcycle because of all drum brakes and I have a GPS speedometer but it is my fault. My point is that I NEVER got stopped in my middle-class wagon. It's like it was invisible and I drove MUCH faster in it. Anyway, part of it is my city and of course the fault is with me. Justice does not always equate to fairness I guess.

[davepl]

Originally Posted by ubtripn

I actually drive like I am on a motorcycle because of all drum brakes and I have a GPS speedometer but it is my fault. My point is that I NEVER got stopped in my middle-class wagon. It's like it was invisible and I drove MUCH faster in it. Anyway, part of it is my city and of course the fault is with me. Justice does not always equate to fairness I guess.

Justice would be to issue you tickets in both vehicles when you're speeding.

You should celebrate the fact that you got away with it in the Outback, not pout that you got caught in the truck!

What are you going to "fight" exactly? That you didn't get enough tickets when you drove a Subaru even though you deserved them?

My vehicles rated, in order, 310hp (that's the GMC!), 502hp, 502hp, 505hp, and 510hp. And I haven't had a ticket (or been pulled over) since 1986. I don't run front plates (though we're required to) and I run drag radials on the street. Must be more to it than luck!

Someone above (not you) is seriously touting the fact that he doesn't even have a front bumper, but it's OK because the cop went to war in his place and probably got killed. WTF is wrong with some of you? I know I'm a grumpy old man but come on...

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by ubtripn

3 tickets this year in my Orange, loud, fast sounding truck.

Do you get tickets for driving a, "Hotrod."???

You answered your own question.

I have only received a small handful of speeding tickets in 45 years of driving.... and I was going too fast each time.

[GRX]

Originally Posted by Stocker

You answered your own question.

I have only received a small handful of speeding tickets in 45 years of driving.... and I was going too fast each time.

^^ My thought exactly. Had a couple cops ask me about my truck, one state trooper even held up traffic for an entire light cycle to talk about it. Then again, my truck is not a hot rod

[ubtripn]

Lol-yeah I guess so but it ain't fast, just looks like it =)

[HeloCrewChief]

Never had a problem in Southern California. They mostly mess with tuner cars. I have done some stupid things as well and always got let go without a ticket. Put a fresh BBC in my 68 Chevelle. Took it down the back street open header. Cop pulled me over because, he thought I was going triple digits. I wasn't. He let me go. Pulled up next to another cop one time. Open header as well in a different car. He rolls his window down and just nods his head. Pulled up next to yet another cop. He asked me to do a burnout! Like I said, depends where you live I guess. Southern California cops seem to be really cool about it.

[leddzepp]

Originally Posted by HeloCrewChief

Southern California cops seem to be really cool about it.

Agree with this 100%. Never have had a problem in a classic vehicle or "hot rod". The classic car culture here is insane, and the only time I have been pulled over in one is when the cop wanted to check out my ride.

[69moneypit]

I get stopped for no seatbelts than they realize how old my truck is and that it has lap belts .
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[AirSpeed]

Originally Posted by 69moneypit

I get stopped for no seatbelts than they realize how old my truck is and that it has lap belts .
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I had a CHP try to ticket me for no seatbelt and got out of it because my 69 didn't come with seatbelts. He pulled me over because my brake lights didn't come on until I was almost at a full stop, he couldn't understand how downshifting could slow my truck down, apparently he had never driven a manual trans before. Thats the only time I have been pulled over in one of my trucks and they're both very brightly colored and somewhat loud.
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[LilD]

The only car I got tickets in was my lowered, dressed up S10. Was my fault for speeding but have driven as fast in my others and not gotten tickets but none were or are painted up as nice as the S10. Now I will find wood to knock on.

[68gmsee]

ubtripn, I just passed thru there a few weeks ago. Man what a mess compared to 35 years ago when I lived there for a few years.

Friend of mine was on a motorcycle when 3 or 4 trucks passed him in a small town. He speeded up to keep up with them and a cop stopped him. When he asked the cop why he didn't stop the other trucks he said "can't stop everyone that speeds, they'll get their turn."

In your case, regardless if the other vehicles were going faster than you, they still see it as you were going 40 in a 30 so you will lose. I was told that about 98% of defendants lose in traffic ticket cases. Not sure if that's true.

[71veronica]

YES, i got pulled over for almost crossing the double yellow line and because it was to loud. i know right what a freakin joke! for a while I was getting pulled over twice a week. only one occasion when I got pulled over the cop said my truck "is pretty nice".

[MacGyver72]

Sooooo many stories. Some officers have prejudices. Most do not. I am fortunate enough to have only experienced one that was. He was a small town officer (pop 500) and he fit every bad stereotype. The funniest story is when I was pulled over in 1988 driving a 1962 Impala that I took to car shows. I was pulled over for running a yellow light. Yes, I said yellow. He said that I didn't proceed with enough caution to appease him. Then he began berating me for not wearing a seat belt. I calmly told him that my car didn't have any. He said, "Well when it was built it had them." I of course corrected him and said that in 62 they were an option and my car was not - in fact - built with them. I could see him getting mad but I told him that if he wanted, he could give me a ticket for the seat belt since I was legal with the light but bear in mind, it'll get dismissed due to grandfather clauses in the law for old cars. He stormed back to his car saying he had no time to mess with me.

My 72 Cheyenne Super broke down yesterday and my wife and I were pulling it to a shop with a strap and a cop stopped to help and held traffic back as we towed. Also, I had to push start my motorcycle a couple of months ago and a cop controlled traffic so I could do it safely.

[young grasshoppa]

I've also noticed the speed limits in Boise are lower than most places, and that people like to drive slow in the "fast lane" on the interstate.

[ubtripn]

Wow

[c10srule]

theres a town over from us that hands out c and is like candy to old loud hotrods, i left the stop sign and got up to the speed limit in a short time didnt speed or brake traction but the cop gave me one, i stopped at the gas station in my ciera where he was sitting again and a woman with a car load of kids did it and looked to be speeding asked him why no ticket was it because no loud pipes or soccer moms are aloud to do that, he walked off, went to court and the judge threw it out because he said it wasnt a c and i but could get a noise polution ticket if someone filed one, said the mufflers are state legal, needles to say i put thru that town to stop unwanted aggrivation,