What Did You Do To Your Truck Today? v2.0

[PenguinLTZ]

Drove it and stared WAY to long at a Denali HD on the GMC lot.

 

[ScottyBoy]

filled that thirsty bitch with over $100 in gas.

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

Drove it like I stole it, trying to get to work on time this morning

Did ya make it?

I made it

How much was the speeding ticket?

Either the law didn't see me, or they couldn't catch me. Either way, I got lucky

Or they're mailing it.

That pic of my wife's truck that keeps popping up on the main page is from a speed camera.

you gonna fight it?

Paid it years ago. No sense in fighting it when it was a known speed trap (speed drops from 55 to 50 for about 1/2 mile, with the camera right in the middle and the first 50mph sign just inside a freaking tunnel, so you can't really see it when it's bright sun). Others have tried to fight it for years with no success.

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

Anal bastard

Was that a statement, question or an offer?

Hard to tell without punctuation.

 

[ProZach]

Drove it like I stole it, trying to get to work on time this morning

Did ya make it?

I made it

How much was the speeding ticket?

Either the law didn't see me, or they couldn't catch me. Either way, I got lucky

Or they're mailing it.

That pic of my wife's truck that keeps popping up on the main page is from a speed camera.

you gonna fight it?

Paid it years ago. No sense in fighting it when it was a known speed trap (speed drops from 55 to 50 for about 1/2 mile, with the camera right in the middle and the first 50mph sign just inside a freaking tunnel, so you can't really see it when it's bright sun). Others have tried to fight it for years with no success.

what do they fight it on that they don't win?

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

what do they fight it on that they don't win?

Hell, that was almost 5 years ago now. One person tried fighting it on the basis that it was just to generate revenue, and not for safety, and lost when DC (this is in DC up near the Capitol Building) got an engineer to state that because of the light/dark transition going into the tunnel there they needed to slow traffic down.

Another fought it on the basis that the sign was unreadable coming in out of bright sun into a dark tunnel and lost because it was argued by DC that the sign couldn't be put anywhere else and it met all the Federal requirements for highway signs.

Oh, and I should also mention this is where two highways merge into one, and each is three lanes, so that's six lanes coming down into four and an exit lane, and the sign is on the wall on the far right shoulder. Damned hard to spot at the best of times (I later drove past three times before I actually spotted it) because your focus and attention is on the merging traffic around you, not looking on the right shoulder for a freaking speed limit sign inside the tunnel. The cameras are just as you come out of the tunnel, and the only sign there is 55mph, because that's where the 55 limit resumes.

In any case, it was $50, no points, and I couldn't take a day from work at the time, so I paid it.

What really bugged me was I got on that road by accident. I had picked the wife up at the hospital after she had knee surgery and she was supposed to give me directions home, but she was too groggy and kept falling asleep.

 

[ProZach]

what do they fight it on that they don't win?

Hell, that was almost 5 years ago now. One person tried fighting it on the basis that it was just to generate revenue, and not for safety, and lost when DC (this is in DC up near the Capitol Building) got an engineer to state that because of the light/dark transition going into the tunnel there they needed to slow traffic down.

Another fought it on the basis that the sign was unreadable coming in out of bright sun into a dark tunnel and lost because it was argued by DC that the sign couldn't be put anywhere else and it met all the Federal requirements for highway signs.

Oh, and I should also mention this is where two highways merge into one, and each is three lanes, so that's six lanes coming down into four and an exit lane, and the sign is on the wall on the far right shoulder. Damned hard to spot at the best of times (I later drove past three times before I actually spotted it) because your focus and attention is on the merging traffic around you, not looking on the right shoulder for a freaking speed limit sign inside the tunnel. The cameras are just as you come out of the tunnel, and the only sign there is 55mph, because that's where the 55 limit resumes.

In any case, it was $50, no points, and I couldn't take a day from work at the time, so I paid it.

What really bugged me was I got on that road by accident. I had picked the wife up at the hospital after she had knee surgery and she was supposed to give me directions home, but she was too groggy and kept falling asleep.

That's crazy man, it sucks that you were on there by accident too.
Round here most everybody wins when they fight them, but they take a more direct route.
Like you have to be able to face your accuser (cameras testify horribly in court).
The officer signing the ticket wasn't on duty at the time nor did he calibrate the camera. And a camera's picture is here say since no one can say for sure if it's you (except you) and you have the constitutional right to not incriminate yourself

In your case $50 isn't much (just sucks)
mine was $180 and I found all of this out AFTER I went to class

 

[silvy_lover]

Drove to school and back home without breaking 1800 RPM

 

[RedRider]

Someone want to come by and wash it for me?

 

[01f1502wd]

put on my roof bars, its now ready for the basket and lights.