God Bless the Florida Highway Patrol !

NanciL wrote:
Yesterday I had a flat on my TV on busy interstate 75 in Florida. I had already passed an exit and pulled into the only place available with my TT which was one of those long entrances to a truck weigh station. It was a very dangerous place with the eighteen wheelers wizzing by and the wheel was on the out side rear.
There was no way I could safely change it so we called triple A.
Two highway patrol cars came up behind me and one of them said if I wanted to change it myself he would gladly help me. In the past even though we have triple A, I have changed them myself, so naturally I said yes.
The state tropper did one hundred percent of the work while I "tried" to help, and we were back traveling in a very short time.
I tried to pay him, and no matter how I persisted, he refused.
I sent an e-mail off to the HP last night praising him, but also wanted to praise him here.

Jack L

We had a similar experience in Lamar,CO last summer. We were pulling our FW though this town and got the dreaded "pull over" wave from a local. We did and found our right rear FW tire had blown and our TPMS didn't alert us.

My wife was driving,so I got out and saw the blown tire and started reaching for my cell phone to call roadside assistance. I hadn't even got the phone out and a Colorado State Patrolman pulled up behind us and got out. He was then joined by a second State Patrolman.

Both of them looked for a jack,but didn't have a suitable one,so they called a local who came out with a jack. I gave him a tip,which he first refused, but I pushed it in his bib pocket.

Both Patrolmen got my spare out,changed the flat and put it in our pickup bed.

I knew better than to tip them,but I got their badge numbers and names and wrote their commanding officer a nice letter thanking them for their service.

Yes people curse them,blame them for their problems and even worse,but they have my respect and I'm thankful to them for what they do.