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Originally Posted by Bill Bess
How bout the "pay as you go plan", as in Mexico. I was working in Mexico for 3 months and got stopped everyday by a cop or the Federales, never got a ticket but paid them $10 to $20 bucks (American) cash each time. I was in a commercial studio truck and we carried a lot of cash. We reported the fines as "payment for a safe trip in Mexico", I paid over $500.00. Hope this system doesn't get started here. 
Bill |
In a low key fashion, it has been here for quite awhile. On a toll route out of Chicago I was legal weight for all states but that one and Missouri (80,000 for all the others, 72,500 for those two states). You would pay to take the toll roads because there were no scales, but cops that wanted to enhance their income would set up portable scales. You never want to offer a bribe, but if the cop you are dealing with is sporting a Rolex watch, then something like "Can I pay the fine here?" works just fine. This happened in the early 80's.