Recently a cop pulled me over for speeding, after following me for 42klm.
Almost ever truck I passed coming the other way told me he was behind me, so I wasn’t going to even fart for fear of being stopped
My max speed allowed in that state is 90kph. 81 tonne of truck, I’m braking hard going downhill, by the time his party lights came on my gps read 88. He fined me for 1-9klm over 90. What my offending speed was ????? 1, maybe 2klm over??
The lecture about how dangerous my speeding was like a 500 page novel.
While going through my logbook he looked over at me and said: I’ll not have you lean on my vehicle please, go stand in front of the truck, which I did. He looked back at me and asked if I was obscuring the registration plate on purpose
I asked him when the state laws on speed limits for the road train I was driving were going to be aligned with the state I live in (10kph faster) because my speed he clocked me at isn’t dangerous there.
“I’m not going to argue politics with the likes of you”
He found a bald spot (about the size of my hand, on an otherwise perfectly good tyre) on one of my 46 tyres and deemed the vehicle defective, gave me a lecture on the dangers of bald tyres
“Have it rectified by the morning or I will make sure you never drive in this state again” 3:30pm the day before a public holiday, I found a place that replaced the tyre at 5:15pm. I then had to have the defect notification signed of at a police station……. I stopped at 5 police stations on route, not one had a cop manning them.
I ended up stopping a highway patrol car to sign it off.
$591 and two demerit points.
If you want to talk about bad cops, that fucker tops them!
