[olddog]

I have to speak out on the speeding ticket issue. I live in a small village where the police department and Mayors court is, for the most part, funded by traffic tickets. They are not as bad as they were 30 years ago. Back then they used to write tickets for 26 MPH in a 25 MPH zone. Now it takes 28 MPH to get a ticket.

Some states have the speed limit set 65 others 75. So you can get a ticket in one state at a speed that is permitted two miles on the other side of a boarder. When you get in the mountains, it is easy to coast over the limit on the down hill side, and sometimes it is a fuel advantage to get a run for the next hill.

So to my point, there are a bunch of speeding tickets written that are chicken $hit, and have nothing to do with safety or reckless driving. It may have more to do with where you drive than how you drive.

I believe that more attention to the details are required than an arbitrary number of speeding tickets. Is three tickets for 58 in a 55 zone on an interstate worse than one 90 in a 20 mph school zone? Only an idiot would say yes.