Highway Patrol to do move over law stings this month

[rpmGator]

Saw on tv, that they are going to do enhanced enforcement of the new move over law this month.

For those that haven't heard, the law dictates that you move over one lane, when law enforcement or even a tow truck is on the side of the road.

If you can't get over to another lane, you have to slow down 20mph under the posted limit.

They are planning to sit one car beside the highway, and pull over all that ignore this law.

Just a heads up to all before you get that ticket...

[myamiG8R]

thanks for the heads up, though this has been the law for a couple years i think, yes?

[red4512]

The Highway Patrol is a group of pigs out for revenue collection,
instead of helping out drivers on the road.

[myamiG8R]

Originally Posted by red4512

The Highway Patrol is a group of pigs out for revenue collection,
instead of helping out drivers on the road.

bad day?

[Minister_of_Information]

The law is designed to minimize the impact of unsafe conditions on the highway -- vehicles on the shoulder. So to ensure compliance with the law the FHP is going to create unsafe conditions on the highway hoping to catch somebody that doesn't properly react to it. That is criminal in spirit, IMHO.

[rpmGator]

The law in Florida was passed in 2012 if my memory is correct. However the only place without a MOL now, is Washington D.C.

Bama and Georgia are doing the same in coordination with Florida this month , so watch out no matter where you are.

[ufMIB]

I wish "slower traffic keep right" was enforced

[gatorknights]

I guess all the real crime is solved, so they have the time to spend our tax money on this garbage.

[helix139]

Originally Posted by red4512

The Highway Patrol is a group of pigs out for revenue collection,
instead of helping out drivers on the road.

+1

[manigordo]

I always had a lot of respect for the FHP until they set up a young kid (who was killed)for a traffic crime committed by an FBI agent in South Florida. I know there are many fine officers out there, but there are at least as many who are thugs.

[Spurffelbow833]

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

[Dreamliner]

Originally Posted by myamiG8R

bad day?

No, just bad cops.

[SmootyGator]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

Dude, I hate this with a passion. Don't even get me started...

[The_Graygator]

It's hard for them to enforce it, especially in a court of law because usually the officer has no proof.

(correction?), You have to get over when you see an offcier along the shoulder of the road and if you can't, you have to slow down to at least 20 mph under the posted speed limit?

Know a couple of people who got pulled for this when it first came out but in court/judge's chambers, the officers couldn't prove how fast they were going because they had no radar/video evidence record because they were already out of their cars dealing with someone they pulled over.

In many cases, they can't just claim by the eye test how fast someone was going.

[The_Graygator]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

Or those who do this but instead just drive along in your blind spot the entire time, or when you go to pass around them they suddenly speed up and pace alongside you.

I have no idea why people do this.

I hit a deer the Saturday night before Christmas because some idiot was sitting in my blind spot. I saw the deer up ahead and had a split-second to change lanes and looked over in my door-mounted RV mirror, and there was this idiot just riding along in my blind spot that had been there since I gotten off I-10.

So I had to hit the deer instead instead of moving over and plowing into them.

[FrankGator627]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

That's because they want to speed but don't want to be the "lead" car going down the interstate.

[rpmGator]

The HWP has radar and video, so I wouldn't count on going to court and winning, when its just easier to obey the law.

[AFGator]

Originally Posted by ufMIB

I wish "slower traffic keep right" was enforced

^^^^
This!!!!

[panamacitygator]

Lookout for the FHP on motorcycles. Those POS only purpose to to give drivers $110.00 tickets for seatbelts. That is what really peeves me. They let idiots ride around with no helmet and give me a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.

Not to mention the legislature is considering a texting law. I can't tell you how many times I see women putting on makeup, eating cereal, reading going down the highway. Don't they already have a law against distracted driving. Enforce what's already on the books don't make new laws!

[gatordee]

Dropping to 20 mph on the highway is not very safe either imo.