Wadcutter wrote:
Cummins12V98 wrote:
hotpepperkid wrote:
The only thing you might want to pay attention to is total length expecially if your towing doubles as that number veryies from state to state.. There are some states you can not tow doubles
I double towed thru OR and WA yesterday passed several Patrol cars and was passed by one. Lucky I would guess!
We have a saying in LE when someone complains we didn't stop so and so for doing such and such. We ask them if they've ever gone fishing. Most people answer yes. Then we ask "Did you catch them all?"
People don't understand that just because a person is a cop doesn't mean they stop every violation they see. If we did I'd never have gotten more than a mile from my home before it would be end of shift. Also, cops generally only stop what violations they like enforcing. Some cops like stopping speeders and will never stop any other violations. Others won't stop speeders but like working big trucks. I worked with one cop who had a color of the day. One day he only stopped red cars, another day only blue cars. Some won't stop hardly anyone and they consider writing 5 tickets a month an active month. So just because you drove past 3 cops doesn't tell anything. It only tells us that those 3 cops either prefer not to stop RVers or they had other priorities that day. Or they had just stopped someone from another state who wanted to argue that because they could do something in their home state they believe they have the right to do the same in that state. Most likely you were the fish that didn't get caught that day. Some other day there may be another 'fisherman' who catches the fish.
Being licensed in SD may have made a difference, who knows. I figured I was staying in the right lane minding my own business doing the posted speed limit that helped no doubt.
As a LEO what would you say to someone in my situation? I think it would be a no win since I was a tourist coming to spend my money in your state.
I spoke to a long haul trucker in OR while fueling. He said he sees lots of RV's double towing in WA and OR.
