corrupt police officers

[Pugilist]

I would agree that some trucks, mainly those that are tall - 4WD or anything jacked up - are not good at high speeds. Nor are those that are short (front to rear), because of low polar moment of inertia. But my truck is stock 2WD height, long, has Michelins with highway tread, and just begins to smooth out at 80 - 85. Affording the gas is another question, though.

You commented that the local cops now write parking tickets. I wish. They sit at a computer and OK the issuance to unwary travelers of $400 photo tickets for rolling the right turn at their signal next to the Interstate offramp.

Pug

 

[dallas702]

Damn those cameras!

Oh, I'll agree that many trucks are ok at 80-85....until they have to make an emergency maneuver. Same for minivans.

 

[Kalamazoo]

Trucks and cops in Ohio

As to the original posting, If you trust and believe your truck driving friend, and if you believe you have corrupt police activity, and... from the sound of what you have written it would seem that your trucker and/or his company drives through this section of highway on a consistent basis, then I would suggest this...Mount a video camera in the sleeper of the cab pointing forward to see the road, yet angled to also see the speedometer. Have the camera setup to fill a tape (old system) or run a continuous loop that you would stop recording after you were pulled over (if you are pulled over) but after (if you can) meeting the cop in front of the truck to get his face on the camera. But this implies going the speed limit and not above, for that would be recorded. Big Trucks should only go the speed limit anyway, that is why it's called the limit. I drove Big Truck for over 10 years and have well over a million miles under my butt...

 

[sukharev]

As to the original posting, If you trust and believe your truck driving friend, and if you believe you have corrupt police activity, and... from the sound of what you have written it would seem that your trucker and/or his company drives through this section of highway on a consistent basis, then I would suggest this...Mount a video camera in the sleeper of the cab pointing forward to see the road, yet angled to also see the speedometer. Have the camera setup to fill a tape (old system) or run a continuous loop that you would stop recording after you were pulled over (if you are pulled over) but after (if you can) meeting the cop in front of the truck to get his face on the camera. But this implies going the speed limit and not above, for that would be recorded. Big Trucks should only go the speed limit anyway, that is why it's called the limit. I drove Big Truck for over 10 years and have well over a million miles under my butt...

Great advice! I have been thinking of mounting camera in my car for sometime now, especially after my friend has been hit by a car that then drove off. Red lights, stop signs, you name it.

 

[Kalamazoo]

Re Camera

Thank you for seeing the value in the camera idea. I saw a mention of a video camera in an other posting somewhere on this site, after I had already put the idea into this thread. In the Trucking industry it would have other benefits such as making traing films (all the crazy things that can happen in front of you) as well as being a witness to an accident, even if you are not involved ( show it to the cop and let him be a witness). And of course most of us now know about the video cameras in police cars, aka "cruiser cams." This type of technology can be a benefit to all sides of a controversy.