Radar jammer
 

Can anyone show me in the little green book where its illegal to have a jammer in a big truck. I know radar detectors are illegal, But I can't find anything about the subject. I know several drivers that have them and swear by them.

Re: Radar jammer
 

Radar Jammer
 

I love this topic!
First off, any device marketed as a "jammer" for a truck or car doesn't have enough radiated power to be effective against a speed measuring radar/laser the highway patrol/police use.
Second, most circuitry techniques to counter pulse-doppler are classified and can't be marketed to civilians.
Thirdly, locales using radar detector detectors will definitely be able to pick up a "jammer".
Finally, what's wrong with following the speed limit? BOL

Re: Radar Jammer
 

Some drivers seem to think they need to drive like their truck can do light speed.

If you feel you need a radar "jammer", get out of trucking before you kill someone.

My trucks top speed is 68, so there's not a lot of places I have to worry about speeding anyway.

A CB radio will do better than a fuzz buster. I have folks in their cars pass me all the time, and I can see their radar detector in the windshield. In fact, I have caught up to a few of them them, only having a black n white parked behind them. :lol:

It's funny, that those highway patrol boys can turn on/turn off their radar anytime. All they have to do, is turn it on. By the time that fancy radar detector goes off, the disco lights are on. :P :lol:

The best away to avoid radar is to not speed.
Its a pretty basic concept and anyone that speeds and gets caught...gets what they deserve.

I had a rude message here but I changed it. Not worth the BS. Have a nice day

I've been saying for years now, that radar detectors are USELESS. When it goes "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP", you've been had. Your best defense against getting stopped is your CRUISE CONTROL, set to the posted speed. And, you know, when I do that, I don't even need the CB on and can have ALL my thoughts to myself.

Like the other guys said, the JAMMERS are there to seperate you from your money. The companies that make those things are playing a game. They make the radars for the cops, then make radar detectors for you, then make radar detectors detectors for the cops. I know a guy that got caught for speeding, then got an extra fine for having a jammer too. All you're doing is spending your money so that you can be releaved of even more money when you get stopped.

Radar detector with 'UNDETECTABLE K-12 CIRCUIT" costs $119 when you get caught in TN. My wife can tell you about that. She says... "GUESS WHAT... NOT UNDETECTABLE."

Well the STI Driver is undetectable. Time has proven this to be true. It did cost alot but well worth every penny.
For those that say beep beep beep your caught. You kinda got a point. Thats why I always have a front door or bear bait, which ever you want to call it. I let them get far enough in front of me that when they turn it on to get their speed. I have time to slow down.

Actually, this is not all correct! While the Detector Detectors cannot see it, there is a device that can! It is called an AM Radio! There was a article a couple of months back, that demonstrated how the RF from the STI has a distinct pulse that can be found around 680 khz on a AM Radio, from a 1/2 mile away.

Don't worry though, most cruisers these days do not have a good enough AM antenna to find it, and the person monitoring would have to know what the pulse sounded like, that they were listening too.

Good day!

Consider this.....if a "radar detector" is illegal, whether by state law or FMCSR's.... and while I couldn't rapidly find the link to the FMCSR's specific prohibition on radar detectors.....I think the "Beltronic's" site spells it out quite well: http://www.beltronics.com/detector-faq.html

Now, on a different level, consider this: A radar jammer is in fact a "radar detector". Why? Because before it can "jam" a radar, it must detect the radar and determine its band and frequency and then counter it. Thus, its an illegal item in a CMV..... Mere possession of the item is "citable". Do what you will, but remember....its your wallet.

I guess most individuals just do not realize the implications of something going wrong and there being an accident. And that the part going wrong, regardless of speeding, fudging the log-book, failure to due a good pre/post trip, etc. Could land a person in jail for a long, long time!

Attorneys get paid lots of money to suck money from big companies, and make sure offending truck drivers go to jail for accidents that kill someone.

Just a thought to ponder!

Thats right its my wallet and buying the sti was the best investment I've made in trucking next is my sirius radio. Can't count the money its saved me. Bla Bla Bla Yea don't speed and ya don't gotta worry. When you get a load a day late. What ya gonna do.
I don't blow the speed limit out the window. I think I'm conservative when it comes to speeding compared to alot of drivers I get passed by.
My truck only goes 77. Thats not fast to me. I still get my doors blew off everyday.
The biggest problem I see about speeding is in construction and cities. I don't speed in neither.
I do get passed by every color coded truck on the road in those two places.
Which is worst? 77 in a 70 on the open road or
65 in 55 in construction. Also there have been studies that say your like 80 times more likely to be ticketed in construction than the open road.
Be safe out there

If you cover your front bumper in tin foil you will be in stealth mode!

What do you think?...It doesnt matter what you think Jabroney!!!! Can you SMELLLLLLLLL.......What the Supertrucker is cooking? Anybody remember The Rock and his fantastic speeches on WWE? who thought they could translate well into trucking lol

I know a guy who used to be a state trooper. He used to get a real kick out of pulling up behind someone with a radar detector and see them lock it down when he turned on his radar.

What I think is cool, is when I see them with timing lights set-up! Like they have at the drag-strip! There is a small town here in Texas that uses a set-up like that, and it stands up in court.

No radar detector can pick up that set-up!



As for the post on picking up a load a day late! That is when I tell the FM he better get customer service on the phone and reschedule and/or find someone else to haul it! No load is worth breaking the law, fudging the logbook, and killing someone or myself.

Uh, the simple answer to that is: Don't accept it, or demand a "legal" delivery window. Just because someone else botched the shipment window, doesn't make it correct or right for you to violate a series of laws, placing the freight, your rig, your health, your life, and the property, health and lives of the public at large at risk.

And its a very weak and inane justification on your part. What you're saying is....all these others cheat more than me, and I only do it alittle so its ok. Oh-duh....its still very wrong.

Both situations are equally wrong. The only real difference is the $$ and points cost in court.

Tell us....if you are rolling at 77 on flat ground, pulling a 46,000 lb load, and a 4 wheeler driven by a "soccer mom" with a load of kids pulls onto the interstate in front of you.....what are you going to do. All the "probabilities" and percentages just went out the window. You are either going to try and take it off the road and wreck and possibly kill yourself or you are going to destroy the 4 wheeler killing the driver and the kids. Then your life as you knew it is done. You will be embroiled in criminal an civil court actions for quite a while, and you will lose everything to lawyers and survivors. You will become intimately familiar with the corrections system. When your jammer is found....they'll hang you one more time. Don't think it will ever happen? People never think so, so maybe you should talk to some of the drivers that are in prison for "negligent vehicular homicide".

I hope you're not married or have kids....

I thought this was cute....your signature line:

Thats just a bit more than "hypocritical" isn't it? Think about it.

I'm not courtious because I speed??????????
Whatever. You need to get a grip.

Also it is not the same, speeding in construction than the open road. Why do you think the fines are SO much more???? Duh Its more dangerous for all the workers out on the side of the road.

Middle of the desert or when there isn't much traffic. OH yea I'm gonna kill someone for sure. Your an idiot.

As far as the soccer mom goes. I got a question for ya. What do all the poor soccer moms do in states where the speed limit is 75. OMG those poor women.
Its called driving ahead, know your surroundings. I spend most of my speeding time in the hammer lane. So I don't have to bother with the cars and poor mini vans getting on the big road.

Also Super Trucker???? You guys are the ones jumping all over me. You jump me I'm gonna get froggy right back. No super trucker here

I didn't ask for your comments on speeding I asked about the jammer. To the one person that answered my question thank you. To anybody else with something smart to say kiss off

I cant believe you even started this thread.

If you really thought you would get support than you haven't been paying attention for the last two years you've been here.

What's next? How to beat a drug test? :lol:

If you want a 100% way to beat all drug test, PM me.

I'm sorry that I spend most of my time on the road. I don't have much time for the internet super highway.

Also I don't even drink much less drugs.

I speed alittle and you guys flip out. Get real. I would bet most of you running off at the mouth speed. Either in your truck or your car. You want everyone to think your a little angel.

I had a question I got it answered so lock this f**king thread already. I'm tired of all you goodie goodies that do nothing wrong talking down to me because I speed. I'm sure you guys do everything by the book. RIGHT Some of you are probably the ones blowing my doors off and all doped up on drugs or pills that keep you awake so you can drive 16 hours a day.

:shock: Really? Thanks but until they ban caffiene I'm good!

I wonder how many PM's you'll get? :lol:

Well, I can save everyone the trouble. The method is: DON'T DO DRUGS!

Not sayin I never speed. Not sayin I do.

Just sayin I know better than to ask about an illegal jammer on a public forum.

But I will say my company pays me extremely well and my truck only does 68 so its easy to stay out of trouble. I dont have to speed to make a good living and I dont want to do anything to lose my job.

If I felt it necessary to buy a jammer to make a living I'd get a new job. This aint Smokey and the Bandit.

The local truck driving school just ran a TV ad featuring Tammy from TMC while I was reading your post! Too funny.

§392.71 Radar Detectors; use and/or possession.

(a) No driver shall use a radar detector in a commercial motor vehicle, or operate a commercial motor vehicle that is equipped with or contains any radar detector.

(b) No motor carrier shall require or permit a driver to violate paragraph (a) of this section.

and

§390.5 Definitions

Radar detector means any device or mechanism to detect the emission of radio microwaves, laser beams or any other future speed measurement technology employed by enforcement personnel to measure the speed of commercial motor vehicles upon public roads and highways for enforcement purposes. Excluded from this definition are radar detection devices that meet both of the following requirements:

(1) Transported outside the driver's compartment of the commercial motor vehicle. For this purpose, the driver's compartment of a passenger carrying CMV shall include all space designed to accommodate both the driver and the passengers; and

(2) Completely inaccessible to, inoperable by, and imperceptible to the driver while operating the commercial motor vehicle.

Thank You flood

Since the mid 80's all radar detectors have been good for is to let you know your getting a ticket. Ever since the cops got "instant on", bird dogs as us old geezers called them once upon a time, became obsolete. I had one of the original "Escorts" when the double nickle was the speed limit everywhere and it saved me a lot of money. But the cops wised up eventually. A good CB did a better job after instant on radar came along.

WHAT KIND OF FLOWERS WOULD YOU LIKE AT YOUR FUNERAL?????

You talk about how fast your truck is governed. I suggest you take a serious look at the "MAX SAFE SPEED RATING" of your EQUIPMENT. Tires are rated for only 69 to 70 mph. And if you're driving a company fleet truck, it may be only 65 mph. Company mechanics do make mistakes. Hopefully, not too many of them, but they are only human, after all. Any idea what it's like to have a front spindle-nut come off and have the steer tire roll under your fuel tank? Want a "ROLL-OVER" sensation? Or, how about the tandems come off the trailer coming toward you from the opposite lanes... Down into the median and hits something that makes it look like it's going to join the space shuttle. I hit the brakes on that one. I STOOD on them. The guy in the left lane, passing me, came over ahead of me just in time to be under them when they came back out of orbit. A pair of tires, brake drum, and center hub are heavy enough to come right through the roof, flatten the passenger's seat, and do a SERIOUS job of bending the floorboard down. Do you want to be right under it when it comes down? Or would you rather be able to stop before you get under it? At 65 mph, it's difficult enough to avoid something. At 77 mph, you have no chance to avoid it.

So, if you're going to run 77 mph down the highway, what color would you like the flowers?

P. S.

You've got "INSTANT ON" radar these days. It's been around for a few years now. Cops too, know what someone's reaction is when they turn on the radar gun. I know a few officers that will come up behind you in their plain wrapper, turn on the radar gun to see what your reaction is. Just touch the brakes or even slow down, and he's got PROBABLE CAUSE to pull you over and check you out. Hope your log book is up to date... And be ready to SMILE.

I like Red :twisted:

I will just do the speed LIMIT and not have to worry about it!

you knwo i really love how EVERY driver on here is just a GOODIE-2-SHOES..

well i call horse :dung:

you all act as if you have never broken a low or have never fuged your log book.. hey even 15 minutes is aginst the law. i can almost gaurentee that some of these drivers talkin about how bad Mattangcobra is for speeding is guilty of speeding or fuging there logs... hey even 15 minutes is still illeagle, maybe you miscounted or just could not find a place to park but guess what, ITS STILL ILLEAGLE!!!

yea maybe you did it unintentionally but guess what you still did it..

how about the drivers....no wait.. steering wheel holders actually give someone a break instead of giving him nothing but crap cause he speeds. you all act like you have never done any thing wrong before.

guess what i got a truck that will do well over 80 i know i have done it on a few occasions but i dont recommend any one do it. but what i dont get is why every person who holds a steering wheel comes out of the wood work just to bash on a guy for makin money and doing this his/her way..

aint no one in this industry perfect... and if you show me 1 perfect driver i will show you a liar!

so any ways Mattangcobra. next time you run accorss the Ohio Pike or the Pa Pike hollar out for Boss Hogg and i will be glad to run down the road with ya!!

dont let these "i am a perfect driver" type of poeple get to ya cause i am right there running hard and makin money too... i knwo how it is out there aint no sugar coating about it!!

1: I haven't ever fuged a logbook...but I confess...Yes..I have fudged a logbook...for that extra 15 minutes that got me to a truckstop..consignee..or HOME for the night.

2: I am a "professional driver". When I am behind the wheel I drive the truck, it does not drive me. I watch traffic and adjust accordingly...so that I am able to react to the "steeringwheel holders" and the mistakes and problems they make. (There were 2 of those type right here in my area yesterday. Both on EB I-10, both had major accidents within 2 miles of each other.)

3; Guess what! I have a truck that will do over 85 mph. I don't know how much faster than 85 it will do, because I took my foot off the throttle at 85, but I was at 1600 rpm and still had 150 rpm before bumping the governer. I did that in west Texas on I-10...where the speed limit is 75.

4: So anyways...are you really ready to risk your career and life to go road racing with some kid who just got his CDL in the last year? Or are you one of those same kids??

5: Most radar jammers...radar detectors are "Illegal" in a CMV, in just about every state. Some of those states will impound your truck and lock you up, in their best jail accommodations, for just having one in your truck.

The give away to an LEO, that you may be guilty of something...you slow down right when you see him...the puff of exhaust when you hit the jakes...the dip of your headlights in the dark...the flash of your brake lights.

I've seen lot's of truck accidents along I-80.....In NJ, PA, OH, IL, IA, SD, WY, UT, NV and CA. Knock yourselves out and join that crowd. I will drive my truck professionally and avoid you both.

oops double post....sorry

Dang...double post