Zeus993

Got hit out on Marine Drive by UBC. I should have known better. Bobs Breakfast Club is a great drive and they start up again in a couple weeks.

Macster

I always drive the speed limit or less if traffic or road or weather conditions rquire I slow down even more.

But I never venture out on the open road without my V1 and a hand held CB radio.

The V1 has saved my butt more times than I can count.

Ditto the CB radio.

An added benefit of the V1 radar detector is if you use it properly, listen to what it has to say, it makes you a better driver, a more observant or situation aware driver and you are a safer driver. Fewer tickets. But possibly fewer accidents. Bonus!

Sincerely,

Macster.

Alan C.

V1 plus Laser Interceptor.

Marine Blue

Macster what channel are you listening to on your CB and what exactly are you listening for?

Skibum

+1 on the portable Cb... IF you can stand to listen to the chatter.
Around here it's channel 19. The truckers know everything about the road in front.

Spokane5150

I was out with my sister and her husband at some Honky Tonks in Nashville drinking a few beers on Saturday and having a good time. I was sure to let the beers dissipate out of my system before driving home but the rest of the crew was pretty snookered. On the way home the cops had a mandatory stop set up. Man! I was sweating bullets. Cops say, "Had anything to drink tonight?....I said, NO." Cop says, "Ok...just need to check your plates and you'll be on your way." Wow! These guys are getting aggressive. Key here is if the cops ever ask if you've been drinking, the correct answer is, "NO." Never say, "I had a few beers" because you'll be spending the night in jail. State Trooper told me that the police force pays most for their budget on Tickets and DUI's.

Mbiondo

This is a topic that comes as a surprise to me. I had no idea Porsche owners sped! Once, here, I wrote about having some fun on the Garden State Parkway, and got so much backlash from posting about it that my spine hurt for months. So at that time I simply assumed all 911 owners always, always drove under 65mph. Now I am shocked. Shocked!

Marine Blue

Spokane5150

Funny!

Yes...you'll have a few guys on her that think they are the "Worlds" conscience. Typically Liberals....You're too stupid to think for yourself so we'll do the thinking for you.

Oh...you got pregnant? No problem....we"ll provide an "Out" for you. Save the whales but kill the babies. Spend millions saving the Polar Bears but let's forget the starving kids because bears are cute. F'n Tards.....

Sorry....it's holly week so I'm a little worked up.: surr:

Quadcammer

really? Is it that much more exciting at 75 or 80? I could damn near fall asleep at 75mph in my 993, so its not like those extra 10-15mph make it so much more awesome.

I speed as well, but I don't complain when i get tickets

gonz911

I've had a V1 for 7 years and it's paid for itself 10-fold. The only thing they do is provide "situational awareness" and even with lasers they sniff out the particles. Now, if you're the only one on the road and primary target once you're lazed it's game over. But that's part of the deal. If you're in an area known for this type of patrol and you're driving on the road solo just beware.

Macster

Mostly channel 19. In the areas I drive, mostly in the western half of the USA this channel seems to be the public channel or default channel used by (mainly) big rig drivers. There are areas where CB radio traffic is sparse. In heavily populated areas in CA. For instance across AZ on I-40 there's good radio traffic. But as soon as the trucks cross into CA -- and have to slow to 55mph -- and have to deal with very soon heavy traffic -- the CB radio traffic drops way down. There's a sprinkling of continuing CB radio traffic as the trucks make their way west through Needles, and on into Barstow, and then on 58 (the way I usually go) to Bakersfield, but after that mainly silence.

East of the Mississippi the channel preference might change. I seem to recall some truckers telling me this, but I'm not sure. While I have been that way a few times it has not been recently (around 10 years since) and I do not recall the channel I listened to. My radio has a scan function and will find channels with traffic. Then you have to listen to see if it is a channel being used by the general trucker population, or being used by drivers worlking for the same company or drivers who are carrying on a private conversation and have switched to another channel.

What I listen for are reports of bears: smokies (state troopers); county mounties (sheriff/deputies); city kitties (local police), and last but not least: bear in the air!

As an aside, city kitties can be particularly troublesome because late at night they'll sit on the freeway -- within their town's jurisdiction of course -- and snare late night speeders (among other things). I had one (down on I-20 in TX) pull me over in my Boxster even though I knew he was there (courtesy of the early warning from the V1 and CB radio bear reports), and had slowed to under the limit. An impatient car passing mine triggered his radar gun and when both cars came into view he ignored the red car (the speeding car) and pulled over my blue Boxster. One of the truckers who witnessed the thing commented over the air "He's pulling over the wrong 4-wheeler!" I managed to talk my way out of a ticket (into a 'warning') but it was touch and go for a while.

But one can also hear of accident reports, traffic tie ups, bad weather and these can be very useful/informative.

'course one can hear other things too. Years ago, very late one night on a 60 or so mile drive from Sedalia MO to Lee's Summit, MO, I was in a convoy (just a handful) of big rigs listening (to help me stay awake) and there was a woman driver up in the lead that had eyes like a cat. She spotted bears real well. Even though I knew where they were -- from her reports -- when I came upon them had I not known where to look I wouldn't have spotted them in time to have done anything but mentally prepare myself for a ticket as I prepared to pull over to the shoulder of the road. Anyhow, there was a male driver -- in our local group of vehicles -- who offered -- between the woman driver's bear reports -- a running commentary on the quality of the strip club entertainment at the various strip clubs/bars along the route.

Another time out west (east bound on I-40 but I forget now exactly where) I heard a trucker a few miles ahead make some kind of exclamation, then a pause and another, then another. He had run into a plague of migrating grasshoppers (ahead of an approaching t-storm) and the things were hitting his truck's windshield like bug bullets. Then he tried to remove them with the wipers: Big mistake. Bug guts smear city. When the group I was 'hanging' with encountered the plague of grasshoppers we were prepared and of course avoided using the wipers. Not too long after we passed through the grasshoppers and ran into the rain, pouring rain, which quickly washed the bug remains off with the help of the wipers.)

Sincerely,

Macster.

SToronto

Are detectors legal in BC?

Mumbles

For 50km over the speed limit you can lose your car up here. Even crushed.

Mark Harris

Best post in the thread. I have a V1 and Blinder. Laser Interceptor is rated better than my Blinder. In the end it doesn't matter. I still got a ticket on I-470 by a airplane clocking me with marks on the freeway while HP's waited in line on an on ramp.

I haven't got a ticket yet that I have not been able to double up on the fine and end up with a broken tail light or parking violation. Muni's love the $$$$.