Originally Posted by 6South

My last speeding ticket in TX was almost 8 years ago. I was driving to Phoenix and got caught doing 130 @ 2 in the a.m. by a state trooper in the middle of fucking nowhere.

I was alone on the highway for hours and if I hadn't been going uphill when I passed him (hiding in the ditch running radar) he would have gotten me for 150 and I would have gone to jail for the weekend.

I told him I was trying to get to the next rest stop to take a dump (true) so given the popularity of this particular highway w/ interstate drug runners he proceeded to search my car for the next two hours, taking everything out of it and piling it up on the side of the highway. (I was moving to PHX for 6 months for a contract assignment).

After he didn't find the kilos of yayo he thought I was hauling around (drug mules don't typically speed down the highway but don't tell Trooper Super Squirrel that) and getting more and more pissed off he ended up only getting to write me for the speeding ticket. He even inspected my car for equipment violations, I've never seen a cop work so hard to try and bust someone.

I hardly every get pulled over but when I do it seems like I always get super cop w/ a bad attitude.

The main danger in TX comes from small one-gas station towns who run speed traps on the local highway to fund the local police budgets. They really love to do the sudden speed limit change thing where you practically have to slam on your brakes to go from 70 to 40, usually in a blind curve or over a bridge where you can't see the new limit sign. Those towns don't move much though so it's easy to map them out in the GPS or just add the speed trap add on if you have a good one.