How not to get pity or explain a ticket to the safety man...
 

we had a driver get a ticket yesterday;

71 in a 65

&

Radar Detector in a commercial vehicle.

The terminal manager asked the driver why when he was in the process of being pulled over, did he he not just pull the radar detector off the dash? The driver (without missing a beat) answered......

I WAS TOO BUSY TRYING TO GET MY SEATBELT ON!!!! :roll:

The terminal manager sent him home for the rest of the day to "think about it"

Nice. You should have posted this in the comic forum :lol:

Cheap radar detectors will show up, as they must emit some radar to do their job. I was at a mobile audio place a few days ago getting a CD player in my personal vehicle, and the owner explained to me the benefits of the expensive system they sell that actually 'absorbs' radar, making it useless. Its not a "jamming" device either.

BTW- chrome (or anything reflective) is what they shoot radar at :lol: Some are switching to laser now too for radar.

Anyways, 71 in a 65 is petty, but a serious matter nonetheless.

Radar Detectors
 

"emit some radar" Not. What is radiated from many radar detectors is their local oscillator (LO) frequency which is picked up by a radar detector detector. Better radar detectors have a broadband pre-amp ahead of the mixer so the LO isn't detected. The pre-amp also precludes the mixed frequency(ies) from being detected. BOL

Funny stuff there! :lol:

Reminds me of a story from when I was with Maverick. A driver went through the wash bay and as you exited you had to turn left because of a light pole off to your right a little bit. It wasn't hard to miss, in fact it would have been tougher to try and hit it. Anyway, one driver managed to clip it with the tractor, knocked the light pole down and proceeded to run the truck all the way up onto the cement base that the pole sat on before he finally came to a stop.

He, of course, was questioned by safety about it and they told him that it was one thing to clip the pole to begin with, but they asked him why he didn't stop?

He said, "Because I couldn't.". Their response, "What do you mean you couldn't?" "I couldn't because I wasn't in my seat..."

The impact had bounced him clear out of his seat onto the floorboard because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt... Nice...

I gotta ask, but I know the answer is, "because he is plumb dumb." Why didn't he put the seatbelt on while coming to a stop and as soon as he stopped, yank the detector and toss it into the sleeper while the cop was still walking up to the cab?? What a fool, reminds me of the guys at the former Southland Corp who would pull the throttle control stick out and use that as cruise control for going down the road only to run into the back of someone. They'd claim they couldn't stop because the cruise control would not kick out and that's why they hit them.

71 in a 65? :shock: Was this on the slohio turnpike?

This was in the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma at a hwy intersection. They had at least three DOT bears and a few troopers scattered all over in this area, everyone knew there were there and that there were "open for business. We drive day cabs hauling non pnuematic, pneunatic tankers, we have enough electronic doo dads that running a radar is just kind of silly. The trucks have Vorad radars and a soon to be activated satillite communications system.

Sorry to threadjack, but how do you like the Vorad? (isn't that the device that warns you if traffic has slowed or stopped ahead?)

I'm very curious about this.