Rest Areas Safe?
How safe are restareas to stop in at night and get a few hours sleep?
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28½ years as a LEO and that is what we use 95% of the time in our travels from point A to point B. Have NEVER felt threatened or uncomfortable in a rest area, but can NOT say the same for camp grounds.
Also, most of the signs limiting the length of stay are a LE tool to keep the mobile homeless from setting up camp, NOT to stop the traveler from getting some rest. I know for a fact the 3 hour time limit in FL is just that, not a law, but a FDOT rule to assist law enforcement. The only state I know of that actually had a law with a time limit was CT and they had to change it as the Feds sued them over their enforcing it on OTR truckers.
Also, most of the signs limiting the length of stay are a LE tool to keep the mobile homeless from setting up camp, NOT to stop the traveler from getting some rest. I know for a fact the 3 hour time limit in FL is just that, not a law, but a FDOT rule to assist law enforcement. The only state I know of that actually had a law with a time limit was CT and they had to change it as the Feds sued them over their enforcing it on OTR truckers.
