Police unveil new patrol vehicle for work zones

[redneckmedic]

Everyone be safe out there.

Police unveil new patrol vehicle for work zones - 13 WTHR

 

[bobzilla]

nO worries.... it'll throw the transmission long before they can catch you!

 

[GhostofWinter]

Everyone be safe out there.

Police unveil new patrol vehicle for work zones - 13 WTHR

This is nothing new. I can remember back in 1993-95 they were using INDOT trucks. They were yellow then, but they used them,. I KNOW because I watched on pull across the median of I-65 by Lafayette, and head south. As I caught up to him (doing the speed limit) I saw the state trooper behind the wheel.

 

[GhostofWinter]

nO worries.... it'll throw the transmission long before they can catch you!

Ever try to outrun a radio?

 

[bobzilla]

Ever try to outrun a radio?

It was a joke, just like Dodge's transmissions.

 

[JStang314]

saw a couple of these recently, also a new f150 one. I like them

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Just like Texas.

Funky, but maybe after they write the ticket they can help you move furniture?

 

[IndySSD]

Just like Texas.

Funky, but maybe after they write the ticket they can help you move furniture?

Yeah, I have to wonder, why the truck? All a truck does over a standard vehicle is provide less room for "passengers" and drink more gas with less performance?

Considering that all troopers do is drive and sit, a truck would seem to be a rather wasteful vehicle to use. If this were a DNR vehicle I could understand... but state troopers?

 

[N_K_1984]

Honest question, not sarcasm, is there a high rate of accidents in Indiana work zones due to unsafe drivers? High enough to justify new tactics and vehicles?

I'm all for it, just curious. Breaking the law is breaking the law, and if you get caught by an officer in a Dodge Ram, Crown Vic, or on a bicycle, what's the difference? You still got caught.

 

[henktermaat]

I gotta say that officer in the photo looks badass. I will be SURE to comply with all wishes and demands, even if they are lies or illegal ones.

 

[kwatters]

To try and trick you of course. A patrol car would stand out and you might slow down.

Yeah, I have to wonder, why the truck? All a truck does over a standard vehicle is provide less room for "passengers" and drink more gas with less performance?

Considering that all troopers do is drive and sit, a truck would seem to be a rather wasteful vehicle to use. If this were a DNR vehicle I could understand... but state troopers?

 

[IndySSD]

To try and trick you of course. A patrol car would stand out and you might slow down.

HAH!

Not me, the SSDmobile doesn't go more than 5-10 over (less in construction zones). If I get a ticket for doing 8 miles over on 465 then so be it. I'm not one of the brake slammers that have to slow down every time they see a LEO.

 

[henktermaat]

To try and trick you of course. A patrol car would stand out and you might slow down.

Bingo. Why they gotta be tricksy?

A patrol car would slow ALL traffic, making it safer for all and arguably complete the purpose with little effort

 

[Kase]

I had a feeling this thread would bother me....





.... I was correct

Nothing like our tax dollars goin out a tailpipe at 14 MPG.

 

[eldirector]

....arguably complete the purpose with little effort

That's not the purpose.

 

[henktermaat]

That's not the purpose.

Sigh - I know

 

[88GT]

HAH!

Not me, the SSDmobile doesn't go more than 5-10 over (less in construction zones). If I get a ticket for doing 8 miles over on 465 then so be it. I'm not one of the brake slammers that have to slow down every time they see a LEO.

Hah! You assume some of us slow down!

Actually, I figure he's probably seen me before I see him, so why bother?

 

[Stschil]

Yeah, I have to wonder, why the truck? All a truck does over a standard vehicle is provide less room for "passengers" and drink more gas with less performance?

Considering that all troopers do is drive and sit, a truck would seem to be a rather wasteful vehicle to use. If this were a DNR vehicle I could understand... but state troopers?

Because ISP just got their latest check from the DOJ "sharing" the proceeds from drug war busts that, by law, should have gone to the Education General Fund, if the law had been followed, that is.

 

[Denny347]

Bingo. Why they gotta be tricksy?

A patrol car would slow ALL traffic, making it safer for all and arguably complete the purpose with little effort

They are advertising this because they want EVERYONE to slow down. People only slow down if they see a marked car. They are telling all drivers that the Troopers COULD be at ANY construction zone and you will not know, in the hopes that people will slow down because the Trooper could be there and they cannot see them. If they just wanted to be tricky they would not bother to advertise this and no one would know any better till they were pulled over. ISP has been doing this for years and years. Just slow down in the construction zone and you have no worries.

 

[ghitch75]

i hope they catch a bunch speeders in work zones with the truck trick.....i'v been one of those guys out there work and some a^%hat blows threw at 70 2ft from you.....it's bad enough them doin' 45....