That's nuts, It is so easy to go five over let alone 1 mile over. What company do you know whose tech's certify a trucks speedo as guaranteed accurate, when to truck has 300,000 miles on it.

 

Can't answer that, but I've seen more than a few "1 MPH over" tickets in the 5+ years I've been doing this.

 

Good luck to you both

 

Good to know, thanks.

 

Let me guess-it was either in a construction zone or California

 

Just because a ticket was written for 1 over or 5 over or whatever does not mean that was what the speeder was clocked at doing.

Back in my young and stupid teenage days I had more than one cop cut me a break by knocking 5 mph or more off a ticket.

 

ticket for 1 mph over? must of have some pretty bad day havin cops. What's the fine for that like 5 bucks? Can you just pay the cop and save yourself the hassle (and not in a slip a 100 to him with your license sort of payment plan)

 

Not to complicate things, but this was probably "Failure to obey a traffic control device," which is in effect a speed limit sign. Rather than write him for the speed, it's a lesser violation and a set fine (usually under $100 depending on the location) vs. a varying scale set on the speed.

 

My aunt got a 61 in a 60 in the Oklahoma panhandle. Speedtrap central.

 

Well, that doesn't suprise me. She said her and her husband were in Mich and the county cops there will pull stuff like that. my one and only speeding ticket was in Mich going 60 on a 55 on M-40 out in the middle of nowhere.
I'll never forget coming home from Grand Rapids one nite and I have never saw so many people pulled over by cops in my life going down 131, musta been 20 or 30 cars pulled over. Turns out there was an OZZY Osbourne concert that nite in GR, talk about profiling.