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Originally Posted by supasport
yet majority of the cops are on their phones?
love your feedback but i think police (especially in elizabeth) should be dealing with more important things rather than shoving up curses to somebody that has a clean driving record
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so far in every State that has a hands free law, Police and Fire are EXCLUDED specifically in the law.
The justification is because their phones are used to transmit information that they don't want transmitted on the open airwaves of their radios.
and the job of a LEO is to enforce the laws, PERIOD.. minor or major is not relevant. They see a law being broken they enforce it, they can usually use discretion and decide whether or not to be an ass about it, but they are merely doing their job.
I believe that 95% of LEOs are out to simply do their jobs, but there is a small percentage that want to be asses and a small percent that power trip and think they are above the law, and it is those LEOs that screw up the overall view the general public has of all LEOs.
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Originally Posted by AgsWinSS
It is an ignorant law and as soon as they start pulling people over for driving slow in the fast lane, i will consider buying a device that doesn't require me to drill holes in my car.
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What's a fast lane? No such thing.. In any State.. In all States the posted limit applies to all lanes.. all the time.. No lane gets to legally go faster than any other lane. PERIOD.
now if you are referring to the far left lane being a passing lane.. well ok, but only one state has a designated passing lane, the other 49 do not, this isn't Europe.
several states have enacted laws requiring people moving slower than the flow of traffic to stay to the right:
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Oklahoma
All of these States have very specific laws that say you must stay right if you are travelling slower than the flow of traffic, but NONE of those States give anyone the right to travel FASTER than the posted limit in the left lane or any lane for that matter, and none of them specifically call out the left lane as a passing lane.
However Colorado.. This State passed a law in 2010 I believe that calls out the left lane as a "passing only" lane if the posted limit is 65 or higher.
http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/co-42-4-1013.html
However, it still does not give you permission to break the speed limit, only to pass to go around someone moving slower than you, and NO ONE, can stay in the left lane other than to pass.. and it's a $500 ticket if you do.
The term "fast lane" is a very misunderstood nomenclature, that actually got it's start meaning that the far left lane tends to move faster than the rest of the lanes because it is not an exit lane, and you can't merge into it. It has NEVER had anything to do with being able to travel faster than the posted limit.