A clean get away

[marty]

Originally Posted by Jim2
Can kind of understand why. Truckies are professional drivers and they typically have millions of kilometres between even minor accidents.

Jim2


exactly why they should know better and 1. obey the rules, 2. be considerate. most of them are - i have had almost no trouble with truckies pulling over or waving me past

[Jackrat]

I worked with truckies as a pilot driver, plus Iv,e done a hell of a lot of kms behind the wheel myself,They are no different than anybody else.Some of them are very good at what they do an some of them a right clowns.One thing I do know is that driving trucks full time you get to see some really stupid shit from the general public.Some things most folk never realise is when it looks like you are passing on a blind bend or some other such thing,is that you are in radio contact with another truck coming the other way and being told the coast is clear.This also applys to cops,Its no big secret where they are either.You could be better off puting a CB or VHF on your bike rather than a radar detector.At lest for the highway anyway.

[spudchucka]

.You could be better off puting a CB or VHF on your bike rather than a radar detector.At lest for the highway anyway.

Don't ever waste your money on a radar detector, the things are next to useless if the cop is using the hawk / stalker correctly.

[mangell6]

Checkout www.radar.co.nz Makes very interesting reading.

I think everyone should go out and buy a radar jammer

[James Deuce]

Checkout www.radar.co.nz Makes very interesting reading.

I think everyone should go out and buy a radar jammer

And riding gear that is the same colour/light frequency as the laser guns so that we absorb the laser light instead of reflecting it.

[Jackrat]

And riding gear that is the same colour/light frequency as the laser guns so that we absorb the laser light instead of reflecting it.

How about a couple of liters of stealh fighter paint.
My younger brother has a jammer as well as detector,He tells me when his detector goes off he hits the jammer,cuts his speed an then turns it off again.
He hasn,t had a ticket for a while,which is really saying something for him as he goes every where at warp speed.I would go an buy both myself but the price is a bit off putting.Still very interesting anyway.

[wkid_one]

The cops do not issue C's OF. They do inspections, and can issue unroadworthy stickers. They are also doing this to cars. Well, OK, boy-racer cars. And they check Gross weight.

Actually I worded that incorrectly - VTNZ has issued mechanics out to the Weigh Stations whereby they DO do COF inspections on the side of the road along side the COPS. Believe me - I have had to finance clients who have had to do emergency work to their trucks as a result of this.

You can now pass you COF inspection in the morning, and then be failed at a weigh station by the Mobile Inspection Team - I know of 2 of my clients that have had this occur (at Ohakea).

HOWEVER: I am not saying truck drivers have more accidents - I am saying the limit is there for THEIR OWN SAFETY. Truck rollovers, jack-knifes, etc often occur because the truck is travelling faster than the limit - and you must concede NZ roads are not conducive to a truck travelling at 100kph+.

You only have to travel down the middle of the island at night to see the idiot truck drivers bouncing home racing one another.

[What?]

VTNZ has issued mechanics out to the Weigh Stations.....
...You can now pass you COF inspection in the morning, and then be failed at a weigh station by the Mobile Inspection Team

You'd be stretching a point to call some of those monkeys mechanics!
Shows just how much a CoF or WoF is really worth, doesn't it? Last time I took my Holden to VTNZ, they told me the lower front suspension joints (?) were buggered. Took it into the fix-it shop where I was informed that there was nothing wrong with any suspension parts, but the steering rack did need re-bushing. Big difference... I have a few other testing station tales, too. I don't go to them any more - reckon their expertise could actually be dangerous.

Couldn't agree more about truckies at night. Some are really good, courteous and sensible, but it seems the majority are cowboys.

[Indiana_Jones]

Well all I can say is don't speed stupidly, but the cops do pull people over for when they speed to overtake.

-Indy

[Lou Girardin]

Tests in the States showed that the hardest vehicle to give a laser reading on was a black TransAm. Because it has hidden headlights (no exposed reflectors), black absorbs infrared light and they don't have to have front plates in the States. Which doesn't help us as bikes have exposed headlights, having your light on high beam helps a bit because the infrared component does slow the laser lock-on.
The thought occurs to me, if we had free access to hand guns in NZ. Maybe the cops wouldn't be so keen to use shoulder mounted laser guns while hidden in bushes.
(I thought it was someone about to shoot me , your honour!)
Lou

[Marmoot]

Maybe you can sue them for eye defects.
Laser can ruin eye due to their intensity.

[wkid_one]

Interesting isn't it - I had laser surgery to fix my eye sight...

Now - maybe if Ventura could put out a light protector that is also Laser (IR)Absorbing???? Kill two birds with one stone wud din nit.

[k14]

Yeah, but then it would stop your headlights light aswell.

The light from the laser gun and headlights are virtually the same, apart from different wavelength/frequencies. The reason i thought that the headlights cause some disturbance to the laser is that the waves add/subtract together from superposition causeing a completly different wave to be sent back to the gun. Or is it something else?

[Lou Girardin]

My, limited, understanding of laser gun technology makes me think that there is enough infrared light in a headlight at the guns frequency to slow the processing of the return signal. This would make the old style pre-halogen lights even more effective. Unless you value being able to see at night, that is.
Lou

[BlueR1]

If you really believe that the police should never speed then I guess you will accept them driving at 50 kph while your daughter is getting raped, your house done over, your car / bike stolen.
IMHO

They wont attend your daughter getting raped, your house getting done over or your car being stolen anyway because they are all too busy hiding in bushes on the side of the road and giving people tickets for doing 110km/hr on straight roads and passing lanes Oh but its saftey remember, then I bet everyone of them hops in their private car and drives at 110kms/hr.... Bloody Hypocrits!