Wyoming Traffic Stops

[Dave_L]

I drove to Manhattan, Kansas a few weekends back. No problems at all. Had cruise set at 80 mph the whole way. I was even in a Subaru. Haha.

[kidicarus13]

I went on a road trip recently and was pulled over and received a speeding ticket in both Kansas and New Mexico for going 8 over. Never had a speeding ticket in 20+ years of driving and now I get 2 within 8 days of each other. I'd definitely drive the speed limit and follow all laws when out of state.

They can't fill the coffers with warnings!

[thvigil11]

Staters down here love catching ya'll coming south over Raton Pass. Not much else for them to do around here until after dark. That's when the domestics start.

[BlasterBob]

Staters down here love catching ya'll coming south over Raton Pass. Not much else for them to do around here until after dark. That's when the domestics start.

A couple/few time each month, I drive the DAV van from Raton down to the VA Hospital in Albuquerque and always set cruise at 77 MPH (+2 over)..
At that speed, it's rare for me to pass ANYONE on the I-25 between Raton and Albq., but always have a huge number of NM folks passing me like I am parked. The CO State cops seem to be finally capturing many many speeders from NM and TX here on our side of the I-25.

[wctriumph]

I have been pulled over four times in WY with GA plates and zero times with CO plates. I don't know anyone from CO that has been pulled over without cause and searched.

[cstone]

I few days ago I drove from southern Maryland, through Pennsylvania, WV, OH, IN, IL, KS into CO. No traffic stops were involved and I was driving a 2005 Ford Taurus bearing CO plates. When I set the cruise control it is usually about 8 miles over the posted unless I'm on a smaller road.

I avoid Iowa. For some reason, even pre-64, I got pulled over by someone every time I went through Iowa. Only once did a IA Patrol officer cite me for 10 over, and after signing the ticket, I asked him about chasing me through a group of IA tagged vehicles as we all were moving at the same speed. This was with my wife and kids in the mini-van. He then threatened to write me an inspection ticket for the dealer's plastic tag frame obstructing my plate. I told him I would wait while he writes the unenforceable out-of-state inspection ticket and he sent me on my way. For some reason, my family and I seem to always draw a fishing expedition in Iowa It normally ends after the third or fourth time I ask them if they are finished and ask them to let me know when I'm free to leave. Sometimes it takes a few of them quite a while to realize that they really don't have enough PC to get into my vehicle. If we are going through Iowa, we take plenty of water and snacks just for the roadside picnics in the car while the PoPo gather and confer.

[HBARleatherneck]

My house in Wyoming is about 98 miles from my house here. I didnt even see one LEO the entire way there or back. Actually I think I only saw maybe a dozen vehicles from here to there and maybe the same coming back. They must not be looking for Colorado plates the way I go.

[Great-Kazoo]

My house in Wyoming is about 98 miles from my house here. I didnt even see one LEO the entire way there or back. Actually I think I only saw maybe a dozen vehicles from here to there and maybe the same coming back. They must not be looking for Colorado plates the way I go.

They don't ticket horse back riders.

[SideShow Bob]

Stay very close to the speed limit if you are EB on 1-70 for at least 100 miles either side of Hayes KS. Been pulled over and warned for 8 MPH over twice, once before and once after. The super troopers must have had allergies, they both were sniffing pretty hard when I opened the window to converse with them. No problems going WB.
Being big, black and loud must attract their attention........ Truck that is......

[TFOGGER]

Funny story about KS State police: When I was much younger and living in Georgia, I came home to visit my parents in Lakewood. My beer of choice at the time was Henry Weinhart's, which wasn't available in GA at the time, so naturally I stocked up on it to take back with me, to the tune of about 6 cases of the stuff. I didn't want to put it in the back of the pickup for the drive back to Savannah, as the forecast highs were in the 90s pretty much all the way back, so I stacked 'em up in the cab/passenger floorboard. I left Denver about 6 at night, figuring to drive across KS in the dark and avoid the worst of the heat. About 2:45 the next morning, I got stopped for 87 in a 65 in KS. The Trooper naturally wanted to know what the hell I was doing with all that beer in the passenger side of the truck, so I told him. He told me it was probably illegal to do that, but it was only 15 minutes to the end of his shift, and he wasn't gonna try to figure out what to charge me with. I was immediately apparent that I hadn't had anything to drink, so he told me to slow the hell down until I got out of that county, and let me off with a verbal warning.