Like you, I've been driving over 40 years and have 3 tickets (2 speeding, 1 red light) in that time. I earned all of them. I've been stopped 3 times in the last 22 years (speeding, license plate not visible and reckless driving) and did not get a citation or even a written warning on any of them. I've had no stops since getting my CHL.Skiprr wrote: The best way to avoid a ticket?
Don't do anything that warrants a ticket.
Seriously.
I've been drivin' for over 40 years and have earned three tickets during that time: two for speeding, one for (questionably) running a stop sign.
The avoidance concept ain't that difficult here...
While I actively drive to avoid tickets, I think that both "the luck of the draw" and local "revenue enhancement" might play a bigger part in whether I get stopped or not than my actual driving. There is no question that I do things every time that I get behind the wheel for which I could receive a citation, if all of the traffic laws were being enforced. Yesterday, I switched lanes in the last few feet before an intersection (I was trying to shake a tailgaiter) and could have been cited for that.
In our Town, some speed limits are set artificially low and speed limit changes are set up in a way that, if you don't see what happens to others at that point, you could easily get stopped there, too. As careful as I try to be, the speed limit in unfamiliar areas are easy to miss if you are having to spend your time avoiding those texting or talking on the phone while driving, as seems to be more and more the case.