re: Avoiding Speeding Tickets

Man, I don't know you but I take i10 from Nola
To BR a few times a week and some people drive like maniacs, especially in the morning.

My Escort alerts me to virtually every cop within a half mile. I'm surpised how they just ride around with radar on. With laser, by the time it detects it they already got you. But I can count on one hand the number of times I've encountered laser in the past 4 years. And I do a pretty good amount of interstate travel.My radar detector is worth its weight in gold.

Speed limits on highways are bullshite and money grabbers. There should be no speed limit unless the highway goes through a city or populated area.

State Trooper near Rough Edge Rd just East of Ruston popped me. Waved me over. I was shocked. Looked immediately at my digital speedometer before slowing, 76. Trooper said I was going 5 miles per hour faster than I was,81. I politely corrected him but I got the ticket anyway. Don't believe the bull about infallible radar reading.

Bienville Parish just west of Arcadia is another hot spot. Deputy likes to hang out in a low spot in the median. Probably writes 20 a day.

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Bienville Parish just west of Arcadia is another hot spot. Deputy likes to hang out in a low spot in the median. Probably writes 20 a day.

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Forgot about that one even though I drove through and slowed down yesterday. He wasn't even there, but I'll always slow down there too.

When I was living in Dallas, I bought a 1990 Mazda MX6 in December of 1989 and drove it home for Christmas. On the way back to Dallas, I got in with a Cadillac, a Mercedes and a BMW east of Tyler that were all Escort equipped and all driving over 90 mph. Drove that fast all the way to the Hwy 80 exit at Terrell. They kept driving that fast on 80, but I slowed down there.

Drove home one year on Memorial Day weekend and counted 36 police cars between Dallas and Ruston. Most were State Troopers. I drove slow that trip.

One year I was in the flow of traffic between Tyler and Longview doing about 80 mph. I looked in my side mirror and saw flashing lights in the right lane. Next thing I saw was a Corvette followed by one of those Texas Troopers in an IROC Camaro, passing me like I was sitting still. They had to be going over 100 mph. Maybe three miles down the road my little 80 mph group of traffic topped a hill and had to swerve over into the left lane because the trooper had pulled around the Corvette and cut him off in the right lane. The trooper and the other guy were still in their cars with the trooper's rear end actually sticking out into the left lane.

I always wondered if the Vette guy was wasted or something and never noticed the cop was behind him until he got next to him. These days I can't see a trooper doing that without more troopers being involved.

Since I moved back over in 2010, I was driving East and saw a plane land on the westbound side of I-20. Cop cars had passed me with their lights on, and when I got past the plane, I saw they had shut down that side so the plane could make an emergency landing.

Twenty-eight years of living in Dallas made for lots of trips back and forth. Lots of I-20 adventures stored in this head.

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I-20 through North Louisiana is littered with cops, State, Parish and local

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yep...this is where I really have to be careful.

Escort 360 with the laser shifter pro and you'll be undetectable. Pisses cops off when you fly by them while they're shooting laser and can't pick your speed up

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Avoiding Speeding Tickets

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Speed limits on highways are bullshite and money grabbers.

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Wish troopers would go after left lane sitters as a revenue source... Interstates would be much safer if the "left lane for passing" rule was enforced.