PA speeding ticket blitz

[the2ofus]

Thought I would give everyone a heads up on the new policy for PA police
officers!


Information on a speeding ticket blitz.
Look out for Penn dot trucks parked along the road or appearing behind you
pacing you, it could be a Trooper driving the truck, it is called
"Operation Yellow Jacket" and will be off and on all summer, each district has a truck cleaned up and ready to go!

Watch Your Speed In PA!
USE CRUISE CONTROL AND IF YOU ARE IN THAT MUCH OF A HURRY AT NO MORE THAN
2 MILES ABOVE POSTED SPEED LIMIT. THE FEW MINUTES YOU SAVE SPEEDING, ISN'T

WORTH A TICKET OR A GAMBLE WITH YOUR LIFE.

Starting today, Pennsylvania will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 1 million will go to pay state troopers' overtime. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 9 main intersections and highways. They are the following:

Rte. 1 north and south PA-220 I-99 north and south

I-95 north and south I-279 north and south I-276 east and west

I-376 east and west I-76 east and west I-80 east and west

I-79 north and south I-70 east and west PA-60 PA-66

US-22 & 322

5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every state trooper is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 to 20 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Dodge Charger Police cruisers and are bringing in all of their part timers on full time. If you work in western Pennsylvania, you will probably take one of these highways. It's up to you how fast you are going when they clock you. KDKA and WDVE & CBS3 confirmed all of this. So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.

Driving Ticket fine increase in PA:
Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for violation of
PA Law 39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or insurance card at the time you are stopped) is going from $44.00 to 173.00.

Please make sure your vehicles have the proper documents in them. If you
jump in the car to run to the store and forget your wallet with your
license in it and you are stopped.... Oh well... you just spent $173. And the fine for not having all three documents is $519!!!

 

[hybridazn]

this stuff comes out every 6 months. ppl are just looking for ways to get ppl to slow down.

 

[superstein61]

Thanks for the heads up but its a hoax

http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pa_speeding_ticket_frenzy.htm

 

[bigmatt1992]

on the way back home from camp yester day on 28 south seen 3 cars pulled over no more then 3 miles apart from each other. Pa should raise there speed limit to 70 or 75 like everyone else. When ur on a high way 70 doesnt even feel like ur moven but on are high ways and how poorly they are maintaned 50 feels like a off road exsperince from h***. when i went to ohio and westvirgina that one of the main things i noticed was how nice there highways were upkeeped. Maybe all the money they take in will go to better high way upkeep lol. O well looks like it will actuly take me the right estamated ''google maps'' time to get to places now. Hope no one on here has to come across one of these penn dot super troopers.

 

[the2ofus]

Call it what you want......I'm not spending any more money on tickets!

 

[Totlxtc]

They actually do use the penndot pickups once in awhile (several cousins work for penndot). Punxsy's barracks calls it operation centiped where they use several cars spaced a mile or so apart and nabbed people left and right. They the lucky souls usually show up in the paper as a statistic. I was one of them afew years ago.

 

[cloakerpoked]

Matt, you gotta be careful in West Virginia. I lived there for 2 years, and they'll really nail you around the Wheeling area. Got 3 tickets in 2 years, including one for driving 24 MPH (yep, it was a school zone...$250) As for the speed limit, who cares? On a one hour trip, traveling at 5mph more from 65 to 70 won't even be a 5 minute difference.

 

[LeviChar1]

Gov Swindell has got to find a way to pay for more spending.....

 

[bigmatt1992]

you mean Rendell

 

[AHDOnline]

No i think he means swindell.

or swinedell..

 

[aushepherd]

I have come to realize that the only people that give a crap about us is us. Do you really think the "higher ranking people" care if we kill ourselves by driving too fast? NO!!! It's like the seatbelt law. They know people are going to break the law, so why not make a few bucks off of it?

 

[cloakerpoked]

Its not when you kill yourself...its when you kill someone else doing something stupid that most people tend to frown on. Lets face it, without speed limits (and relatively conservative ones) more people would be killed while some idiot tries to drive 90 mph while texting, goes through the median and into opposing traffic.

Other people can never be hurt by seatbelt laws, so I take that a little differently, since we all have the right to be as stupid as we dare, so long as innocent and responsible people don't suffer from it.

 

[BeanAnimal]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15311516#post15311516 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by superstein61
Thanks for the heads up but its a hoax

http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_pa_speeding_ticket_frenzy.htm

Folks it is not an urban legend...

Though the original "yellow jacket" reports were partly based on myth. PA liked the myth so much that they implemented the program.

Straight from the STATE website:
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Penndot/Districts/district12.nsf/Operation Yellow Jacket?OpenPage

 

[superstein61]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15369873#post15369873 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BeanAnimal
Folks it is not an urban legend...

Though the original "yellow jacket" reports were partly based on myth. PA liked the myth so much that they implemented the program.

Straight from the STATE website:
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Penndot/Districts/district12.nsf/Operation Yellow Jacket?OpenPage

Ummm, sorry but you are wrong

While the use of PennDot trucks on occassion by troopers is indeed real (and has been for many years), what is the urban legend is the email and the speeding ticket blitz it trumpets.

The email has been sent out numerous times over the years in multiple states - all as a hoax

 

[BeanAnimal]

There is no argument that there were hoax emails sent in many states over many years. The origins of the email may well be hoax based, but the basic message is reality here in PA. I hate hoax emails as much as the next guy

The program DOES exist (as confirmed by the PA website) here in Pennsylvania and is currently being "blitzed" in the Pittsburgh area. Just as operation Centipede, TAG-D and other targeted enforment programs are ramped up during certain times of the year, the Yellow Jacket program is being targeted at the numerous construction zones in the Pittsburgh area. Several local radio stations and the local news have even advertised the program along with the "driving buzzed" campaign. The PA turnpike between Pittsburgh and Breezewood is also being targeted for aggressive drivers and operation Yellow Jackect, the state police themselves are running advertisements on the radio to warn drivers to slow down.

So it is always "on occassion" but there are certain areas and certain times where the programs are TARGETED. Pittsburgh happens to have a lot of construction going on. The state is cash hungry and the program generates a lot of revenue.

 

[acer]

Nice to see you back Bean

 

[BeanAnimal]

Thanks ted!

I hope everyone is registered for the picnic

And lets not get any tickets to or from the event!