Posted on 08/12/2015 5:01:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Indiana is known for its targeting of truckers relative to the behavioral aspects of on-highway safety — no state devotes a larger share of its focus to ticketing and issuing warnings to drivers for moving-type violations. When officials in the northern part of the state in late June announced a weeklong “Operation Truck Stop” three-county enforcement effort during the July 4 holiday week along U.S. 20, a common Indiana Toll Road alternate, in late June, regular readers could have been forgiven for seeing little news there. As Overdrive‘s reports on the state made clear in the last year, such efforts in Indiana are nothing new.
One hauler who commonly runs through the area, sometime Channel 19 regular Jeff Clark, based in Green Bay, Wis., speculated that Operation Truck Stop was little more than the latest tactic to force truckers back into paying for the Indiana Toll Road. “So this is how Indiana tries to force us onto the turnpike?” he asked in a Facebook post when news broke of the enforcement efforts.
Results from Operation Truck Stop, reported in a variety of venues, including Land Line, cited 243 citations and 289 warnings issued for traffic violations. The Indiana State Police, meanwhile, conducted 74 inspections in tandem with the effort, a drop in the bucket in Indiana’s recent-years 70,000 or so annually conducted inspections.
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“Actuall, there is a limit in the concession agreement as to how much the concession company can raise tolls every year.”
Oh well...just like the bash the concept anyway.
If you don’t want to pay, don’t play. Kansas I-70 was/is a toll road. Going from Bonner Springs (KC) west, or vice versa, I took highway 24 that ran alongside it when I didn’t want to pay.
FWIW. The warnings nearly equal the citations. I was warned twice by Indiana’s finest and both times they would have each been $200+ for a citation. I’m not a trucker but I was hauling @$$.
I will give Indiana a break. Ohio on the other hand....
Last time I traversed it seemed that they had applied a one inch asphalt overlay that the trucks broke up almost immediately. Rich Concrete rulz.
Dont speed while hauling gunz through Illinois. Or using studded tires.
We’re the worst driver on the road? Are you kidding?
Or are you one of these so WELL trained auto drivers who hung out by my rear tandems, or in my blindspot constantly?
Do you have any idea how many auto drivers I kept from death every stinkin’ day of my life on the road?
When a Professional Driver has an accident we have to prove it wasn’t PREVENTABLE, not just wasn’t our fault.
In other words we have to watch for the stupidity of every one else on the road, unlike auto drivers who rarely look beyond their own hood, or are busy putting on make up, reading books, or newspapers, playing with their phones or computers, having sex, you name it I have seen auto drivers doing it all. Everything except driving.
Do you even know why we don’t want you beside our tandems? For me, it was because I saw one blow once and the belt went through a man’s windshield and cut his HEAD OFF. I have seen accounts of thousands of auto drivers killed because they wanted to ride id the truckers blind spot for miles.
Before you call us the WORST drivers, maybe you should take a month, ride shotgun with a professional driver, and see who the real idiots are.
By the way, I’m 51, and since I got my CDL at 23 I have not had so much as a scratch with another vehicle, and only received 1 ticket, because my truck got up to (gasp) 60 mph coming off a hill in CA. I had 1.5 million miles behind the wheel when I came off the road in 2004 due to health.
I just drove from Cincy to Chicago last weekend. I65 N to Illinois was CLOSED and the delay was well over an hour to get back on track. On the way home we just skipped that mess and went to Michigan City and turned south, it added an hour on to the trip but at least we were moving and we drove by a National Guard Airfield that had some vintage jets on the tarmac and I saw a sign for a UH1 Huey Museum so I want to come up that way again and have a look around.
The Indiana State Police are protecting the safety of Hoosiers in communities along US #20. That highway runs on surface streets through small towns (many of them Amish populated). Heavy rigs traveling through the state present a much greater threat to safety on city streets than on the Interstate.
You got that right! :)
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