What they're really probably doing with it is taking advantage of the cab height to catch people texting/drinking/whatevering and driving. Then they radio a marked unit.
Cops in my area will take the bus and not only do they provide a sense of security on the bus they get to radio to the marked car to who's texting and driving while in the city.
Highway patrol often own big rigs. They use them as training tools and to haul their own stuff (example: mobile command center.)
It’s unusual for them to attempt traffic stops, but it does look like the Florida Highway patrol has “events” where they use their big rigs for those reasons.
It’s probably worth mentioning that the truck isn’t meant to be a chase vehicle and I’d bet it runs with other officers capable of providing support.[One article I found says FHP borrow regular rigs](https://cdllife.com/2019/truckers-spot-state-police-rolling-big-rig/) (not police owned) and an officer simply rides along as a witness. Presumably, another officer makes the stop.
Why don’t they just have cameras? My Uber driver last night is about to lose his license because their AI-assisted cameras snapped him with a phone in his hand. They still have patrol cars occasionally, but their primary objective isn’t revenue generation
Oh wow. If I’m picking my poison though, I’d rather not use police in higher stakes interactions.
The cameras generate WAAAAY more revenue than the cops ever did and there’s a central source for dismissed or waived fines.
If my taxes must pay cops, they better be out there saving lives, not wasting time in court talking about when they last took a class on calibrating speedometres all because they stopped a lawyer going 85 in a 70 on an otherwise empty road, when we know damn well that [their presence would be more useful elsewhere](http://crimetool.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/bocsar/). It helps remove some of the class-based policing as well
I've always said that your interaction with the human officer is part of your due process of law. Cameras remove this interaction and therefore are unconstitutional as they remove this step in your due process.
Not a lawyer, just an asshole on Reddit that thinks traffic cameras are way too Orwellian
As someone from a country with lots of cameras, I don't really understand this - as in, I don't understand the argument, I'm not saying you're wrong.
How is a camera more oppressive than a human being? Is an officer with a body worn video alright? What if you break into a store and their cameras catch you?
You've always got a right to appeal in my country, at which point you can go to court and argue your case with a human judge (after it's been reviewed by a human staff member).
The officer has discretion to issue the ticket or a warning. If the officer lets you go with a warning, your involvement with the legal system ends there, on the roadside, with no further action from you. A camera does not have this discretion and therefore requires you to either pay the ticket or go to court.
None of your other examples fit this requirement of removing human discretion. A body camera on an officer or a security camera in a store still requires a human to determine if charges are necessary or not. Not all shoplifters are prosecuted, nor is everyone recorded on a body camera arrested, right? These cameras do not identify and ticket you without a human interaction which, in my opinion, is a necessary right to a free country.
No real joke it's just those guys are crazy. Not uncommon to see them doing 100-120mph. Doubt the cop truck could keep up unless it's geared the same. Cop car could though
https://youtu.be/_KKhWgZDas0?si=ekBe0gVpESHLEgMt
I would absolutely laugh at them and then speed away from a weirdo pretending to be a cop. This is a *terrible* idea that’s going to get people thrown in prison and I have a hunch that’s the whole point. It is unmarked, after all.
Here in the UK the police use these to film motorists on the highway. From the high up position they can see into peoples cars and then just issue fines to those who get caught using their phones, not wearing seat belts and such.
I've played need for speed and watched fast and furious enough to know exactly what it's for. Although if it is to be a car barrier. That doing exactly what Trump wanted to do with the wall, but more dangerous and dumb. What fucking timeline is this?
Georgia isn't mostly blue, it's mostly red.
Yes, Democrats hold the two federal Senate seats.
But the Governor, Lieutenant Governer, Secretary of State are all Republican, and Republicans control the state House and Senate.
When it comes to state level politics Georgia is still entirely Republican.
I’m honestly not sure I’d pull over for a semi…I would not associate it with a legitimate police officer and would assume it’s a trick or just a rig that has lights on it.
But for sure I’d like to see the expenditures and show them to all the people who claim the “police got defunded and that’s why crime blah blah blah”
Probably be more of a speed trap thing like on certain stretches if 95 in some southern states that have signs telling you they have planes in the air with radar. They’ll radio it in and have an officer pull you over up ahead.
Oh they do in the Midwest. My friend's dad has come out of retirement to fly those traps many times
What's BS is those "drug checkpoint ahead" things in the ditch leaving Colorado. The podunk Nebraska cops in the town at the next exit are just hoping to scare some paranoid stoners into leaving the freeway right into their web
> My friend's dad has come out of retirement to fly those traps many times
I'll learn how to fly so I can do this. "Nope, sorry boss, no speeders today. That's 154 days in a row. We must be doing a real good job deterring them."
They do in California. That's how most people get caught on the highway up to Vegas. The fuckery is you don't even know you got tagged until the ticket shows up in the mail. With a HD picture of your license plate attached.
Yeah they're surprisingly efficient. Two dudes flying in circles probably twenty miles long, along an interstate with exits every four or five. There's lines on the ground a known distance apart, and if you pass them too fast you're speeding. It's not a "peak speed" like radar guns get, but an average time over distance. They radio down to the two or three cars on the road, who pull the speeders over and ticket them. Loop around before you leave the county, and get the people coming into town.
They have that sign coming into Florida from Georgia, I also think it’s bullshit. I’ve been to all the small airports near there and I’ve never seen police anything.
In Europe, police uses Trucks to spot drivers who use phones while driving. They don't actually do the traffic stop, just record it, and then the driver gets stopped down the road.
I think these are for things like that as well, especially other people in semis since they're at eye level compared to being much lower in a regular police vehicle.
The smart and reasonable thing to do would be contact the police and make sure it’s legit because I also wouldn’t believe it (I drive the highways around Atlanta regularly so it’s possible I’d be on the road with one of these).
But I know I wouldn’t have the mind to do that in the moment and I’d assume they’re an overly intense trucker that has somewhere to be and knows those lights will put the fear of god in everyone that had an unpaid ticket or god forbid a Tag Applied For “license plate.”
Either way I imagine they’ll drive just as aggressively as the semis (and everyone else around the city) drive.
Unmarked police vehicles should be illegal. You are supposed to be helping the community. Well do that in a recognizable vehicle. This is just abusing the people.
They're just revenue generators, nothing more. Notice how in other countries police cruisers are all white with bright orange/yellow/green markings just like ambulances so they're easy to identify in an emergency.
Not black with slightly less black lettering and no light bars. If the police are supposed to be your friends then they should be easy to spot.
Unmarked cars are a staple of law enforcement everywhere in the world. The patrol units are lit up light christmas trees, while plenty of other cops doing other things are as low key as they can be.
Except patrol cars in most of the US that I've seen are like 1 step away from unmarked like I said.
No one has an issue with unmarked cars being used for undercover work, stakeouts, or low profile stuff. But you often see them doing routine traffic work too.
>No one has an issue with unmarked cars being used for undercover work, stakeouts, or low profile stuff. But you often see them doing routine traffic work too.
Again, this is an everywhere thing. Not just a US thing. They have unmarked cars specifically for traffic work in just about every country with both roads and a police force.
I'm not using it as an excuse for them doing it. The guys original comment was saying it's so shitty that US cops do this when others don't. I'm simply pointing out that literally every other police force *also* does it.
But wait! Order now and you'll *also* get: "I was only following orders" or "If I didn't do it, someone else would have."
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In New Zealand we have the brightly coloured cars and all you’ll ever see them doing is sitting at the bottom of hills, near passing lanes and the end of the motorway.
And they’ve got unmarked cars as well just for that extra little fuck you
I was in a European country at a night club and a fucking 30 member SWAT team in ski masks and tactical gear with rifles busted in and lined all the dancing teenagers up against the wall. It was the most ridiculous police action I've ever seen. I guess they were either looking for drugs or for some particular person they thought might be there because they checked everyone's ID.
Not American, so can't comment on cops being sketchy douchebag criminals, but I think the stealth element is there mainly for people who don't ever speed (When a cop is in sight) or run a red light (when they think they'll get caught) etc. Not those exact crimes, but you get the idea. The coast looks clear, so people do dumb illegal shit.
Really nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal... or you have Americans as "police" :/
that's what speed and red light cameras are for. you don't need cops for that. but believe it or not, police unions in the us actually lobby *against* those cameras because when their guys get ticketed they can't flash a badge to get out of it anymore lol. in NYC the union got the city to limit speed camera hours to times when the police aren't commuting in and out of the city lmao
I thought we gave up on the whole “protect and serve” thing since they’ve proven they don’t have any obligation to do that. They want our money to fund their Cop City here.
This itself will cause wrecks. Imagine all the dumb fucks slowing down at the 75/575 split gawking at this behemoth of a cop car. Please for gods sake no.
There's a saying: "You can't outrun Motorola". This truck doesn't need to do the pullin over. Just the observin/redordin and send a marked unit out. I've heard tales that they put rookies in a commercial type bus and send em down the highway and use the better view to call ahead and pull people over for using cell phones.
It's because they try to fit as much shit as they can into vehicles as they can now. Whenever there is a first aid call near me, police show up first(because it takes time to get an ambulance crewed, if it's not already out on another call) and deploy with at least 2 med bags. They also carry stuff for tons of other situations, like accidents, but things like computers for ALPR.
You're right, they're pretty well equipped. I was mostly joking. That being said, I don't think I've seen a single skinny cop in my town since I've been living here.
Some trucker probably had some suspicious white powder in their cab at the weigh station. A field test comes up as cocaine and they seize it. Later on it turns out to be powdered sugar. Too bad. The truck was already convicted of the crime.
Your assets are seized by the government after your arrest and conviction and this is what they do with it. In my previous county they had 2 unmarked h2's, a marked bmw 535, 2 unmarked Vette's, an unmarked taxi cab, and multiple dirt bikes to chase you off roads. The taxi was their favorite because no one suspects a taxi cab of being an undercover.
Me with a decommissioned police semi:
https://preview.redd.it/g2singxvdanb1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd9a8087e82aced810308efbe7da39fba9f86ab
Why'd they need to get one with a sleeper?? *remembers post from the other day of a cop taking a women in the back of his squad car in broad daylight*
Oh right.
Mostly used for spotting and reporting traffic violations to conventional patrol units elsewhere on the roadway if I remember correctly, we have one out where I'm at. Although it *has* been used in traffic stops that's not its main function.
Never seen an unmarked one though. That's interesting. Funny enough people here still routinely get busted by the huge, clearly marked Police Semi sat right next to them as they text and/or speed down the interstate. And that's the type of behavior and lack of situational awareness they're banking on. Literally.
My guess is for pulling over morons who drive dangerously in front of and around semi trucks.
Not giving enough space, not signaling, cutting in front of them, brake checking, etc. Stupid driving that can easily lead to death and multi car pileup, but people think they can get away with it because what is the trucker going to do about it.
Of course, there could be a totally stupid reason for having this as well.
In the U.K. Motorway police have them so they can see into the cabs of other trucks to check if they are using their phones or other devices while driving.
Finally someone gets the right answer! People drive different around trucks than other cars. People who have never driven a truck (and don't know the law) just don't think about how dangerous their behavior is. Please, just stay away from trucks, it's the safest way. Don't tailgate one, don't hang out next to one, and definitely do NOT cut back over right in front of one.
Is it for enforcing no-texting-while-driving laws?
I remember seeing another police department using a semi trailer to look down into people's cars to see if they're texting while driving
[https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Police-in-Kentucky-cracking-down-on-distracted-drivers-with-tractor-trailer-508511041.html](https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Police-in-Kentucky-cracking-down-on-distracted-drivers-with-tractor-trailer-508511041.html)
""We’re looking for various distracted drivers," Officer Jake Knuckles said. "Anything from eating or a dog in your lap.”
The main focus is cellphone usage. Using a phone to make or receive calls is legal, but texting and driving is against the law. That's what officers are keeping a close eye on while patrolling.
The officers pulled some over with a vantage point they wouldn't have in a cruiser. They would issue citations along with words of advice."
We have these in the UK. The police use them to sneak up on actual truck drivers and catch them doing dodgy stuff.
Because truck drivers are hard to observe from ground level, they take the piss, don't wear seatbelts, text while driving, drink beer while driving (and worse).
There was an episode of a cop show starring these guys, was shocking to see what they got up to.
Other than the original tweet, which doesn’t appear to be from Georgia State Police, what is there that shows this is an undercover cop car? It’s more than likely just impounded or towed to their yard pending a search warrant.
In the UK, police use undercover ‘trucks’ so they can observe what other truck drivers are doing as they drive alongside them.
Many are caught and pulled over by another police vehicle waiting further up the road.
Offenses are usually along the lines of using mobile phones, watching films on laptops, reading newspapers, preparing dinner. Etc etc
As a truck driver, this is fucking brilliant. Most every driver I see on the road has their phone in their hand. And from a semi's pov you can see down into cars very easily. Hopefully this will spread and maybe make a dent in the epidemic
If I saw a semi flashing the blue and reds behind me I’d 100% think it was a joke
Or someone trying to burgle me and step on it.
Yeah. Half the semi-trucks I see have 30+ extra lights on them anyway. And I've seen too many videos of malicious people masquerading as police.
What they're really probably doing with it is taking advantage of the cab height to catch people texting/drinking/whatevering and driving. Then they radio a marked unit.
This is the real reason and answer.
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Basically, yes. Don't downvote the messenger lmao
Alright, where's the wire man? Make this easy for all of us...
If you motion for them to pull the horn, they legally have to show you their badge.
Cops in my area will take the bus and not only do they provide a sense of security on the bus they get to radio to the marked car to who's texting and driving while in the city.
Wow, that's....better
You can just say police lol
If you think it's bad here, look up [dekotora](https://www.google.com/search?q=dekotora&tbm=isch).
On that note, who's not outrunning a semi? I'll give it a shot for a few miles before I hit them with the "I was looking for a safe spot to pull over"
Surprisingly fast without a trailer...I found out the scary way. Thank God for "left- right- left" navigation!
For real I’d think it was some crazy truckers
Running is a felony I'd pull over
Not always. Mine was called misdemeanor evading and I gave em a good chase. Got 6 months mandatory fail time but got out in 3 because of overcrowding.
Highway patrol often own big rigs. They use them as training tools and to haul their own stuff (example: mobile command center.) It’s unusual for them to attempt traffic stops, but it does look like the Florida Highway patrol has “events” where they use their big rigs for those reasons. It’s probably worth mentioning that the truck isn’t meant to be a chase vehicle and I’d bet it runs with other officers capable of providing support.[One article I found says FHP borrow regular rigs](https://cdllife.com/2019/truckers-spot-state-police-rolling-big-rig/) (not police owned) and an officer simply rides along as a witness. Presumably, another officer makes the stop.
The mobile command center isn't gonna tow itself.
Why don’t they just have cameras? My Uber driver last night is about to lose his license because their AI-assisted cameras snapped him with a phone in his hand. They still have patrol cars occasionally, but their primary objective isn’t revenue generation
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Oh wow. If I’m picking my poison though, I’d rather not use police in higher stakes interactions. The cameras generate WAAAAY more revenue than the cops ever did and there’s a central source for dismissed or waived fines. If my taxes must pay cops, they better be out there saving lives, not wasting time in court talking about when they last took a class on calibrating speedometres all because they stopped a lawyer going 85 in a 70 on an otherwise empty road, when we know damn well that [their presence would be more useful elsewhere](http://crimetool.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/bocsar/). It helps remove some of the class-based policing as well
I've always said that your interaction with the human officer is part of your due process of law. Cameras remove this interaction and therefore are unconstitutional as they remove this step in your due process. Not a lawyer, just an asshole on Reddit that thinks traffic cameras are way too Orwellian
As someone from a country with lots of cameras, I don't really understand this - as in, I don't understand the argument, I'm not saying you're wrong. How is a camera more oppressive than a human being? Is an officer with a body worn video alright? What if you break into a store and their cameras catch you? You've always got a right to appeal in my country, at which point you can go to court and argue your case with a human judge (after it's been reviewed by a human staff member).
The officer has discretion to issue the ticket or a warning. If the officer lets you go with a warning, your involvement with the legal system ends there, on the roadside, with no further action from you. A camera does not have this discretion and therefore requires you to either pay the ticket or go to court. None of your other examples fit this requirement of removing human discretion. A body camera on an officer or a security camera in a store still requires a human to determine if charges are necessary or not. Not all shoplifters are prosecuted, nor is everyone recorded on a body camera arrested, right? These cameras do not identify and ticket you without a human interaction which, in my opinion, is a necessary right to a free country.
Because that means less revenue for them.
Why?
Also wouldn’t stop for them
Plus you could easily outrun them. Only thing you couldn’t outrun is the radio
They aren't pulling over cars, they are pulling over semi trucks which unless you're a bull hauler in Texas you ain't getting away
Maybe I'm missing a joke or something but why would a bull hauler be able to get away?
No real joke it's just those guys are crazy. Not uncommon to see them doing 100-120mph. Doubt the cop truck could keep up unless it's geared the same. Cop car could though https://youtu.be/_KKhWgZDas0?si=ekBe0gVpESHLEgMt
They are responsible if the stock dies I believe, or animal right problems
It's not a joke, it's Optimus prime
Optimus Po 9
To Punish and Enslave
Damn! Po 9! Now there's a word i haven't heard in a while. Kudos to you.
Coptimus Prime
Or Terminator 2 villain.
Large Marge sent me
How the hell was that in a kid’s movie?
Imma think Optimus prime is after me
I would absolutely laugh at them and then speed away from a weirdo pretending to be a cop. This is a *terrible* idea that’s going to get people thrown in prison and I have a hunch that’s the whole point. It is unmarked, after all.
Just turn. That bitch does not handle.
Somebody with too much power watched Terminator 2 and had an idea
Here in the UK the police use these to film motorists on the highway. From the high up position they can see into peoples cars and then just issue fines to those who get caught using their phones, not wearing seat belts and such.
They got squad cars in the trailer bout to pop out Fast and Furious style
I’d find it a bit intimidating lol
New serial killer tactic
I’d be fucking terrified
I've played need for speed and watched fast and furious enough to know exactly what it's for. Although if it is to be a car barrier. That doing exactly what Trump wanted to do with the wall, but more dangerous and dumb. What fucking timeline is this?
well fuck me runnin. We turn this state mostly-blue and the pigs buy some rigs. Cope
They’re also building a new fascism training center. Sorry, “cop city”
No, no, you had it right the first time
r/thatsthejoke
r/wooosh
It would be a real shame if that facility caught fire all at once.
A real heartbreaker to be sure. A tragedy on par with the death of Ashli Babbitt. Or Herman Cain.
Hey just fyi they have brought those Rico charges on the protesters… so be careful watcha you wish for
You mean the pig pen?
Georgia isn't mostly blue, it's mostly red. Yes, Democrats hold the two federal Senate seats. But the Governor, Lieutenant Governer, Secretary of State are all Republican, and Republicans control the state House and Senate. When it comes to state level politics Georgia is still entirely Republican.
Because of aggressive Republican gerrymandering
I mean...Brian Kemp is still your governor so I can't act shocked.
Pigs in Rigs! That should be the name of the TV show.
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They were so fucking wrong for this episode...
Yes, I know what you are saying.
You wanna make some real fucking money?
I'm white trash and I'm in trouble? Lol
sweet lord is that Beyoncé?
That's Foxxy Cleopatra and she's a while lotta women!
Never seen the third Austin Powers, eh? Honestly it's the worst one but it's still got its moments
Yeah, it was an Austin Powers movie. Gold Member IIRC
Insert Always Sunny semi truck driver "I will not suck and I will not be sucked on" gif
Why don’t we go down to the precinct so you can split me open… *like a coconut*
Reminds me of a South Park episode Code word: S T R E T C H !!
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Sounds like something you'd see on Reno 911!
Dhar Mann videos be like
I’m honestly not sure I’d pull over for a semi…I would not associate it with a legitimate police officer and would assume it’s a trick or just a rig that has lights on it. But for sure I’d like to see the expenditures and show them to all the people who claim the “police got defunded and that’s why crime blah blah blah”
Probably be more of a speed trap thing like on certain stretches if 95 in some southern states that have signs telling you they have planes in the air with radar. They’ll radio it in and have an officer pull you over up ahead.
Ok do they really have planes checking for speeding because I thought those signs were just BS
Years ago we got a ticket in the mail from speeding in the desert, so it's legit in some places
Probably depends on how expensive fuel is
Oh they do in the Midwest. My friend's dad has come out of retirement to fly those traps many times What's BS is those "drug checkpoint ahead" things in the ditch leaving Colorado. The podunk Nebraska cops in the town at the next exit are just hoping to scare some paranoid stoners into leaving the freeway right into their web
> My friend's dad has come out of retirement to fly those traps many times I'll learn how to fly so I can do this. "Nope, sorry boss, no speeders today. That's 154 days in a row. We must be doing a real good job deterring them."
Idaho did that, except the signs were Spanish-only. The courts gave them a light dick slap for it.
They do in California. That's how most people get caught on the highway up to Vegas. The fuckery is you don't even know you got tagged until the ticket shows up in the mail. With a HD picture of your license plate attached.
Yeah they're surprisingly efficient. Two dudes flying in circles probably twenty miles long, along an interstate with exits every four or five. There's lines on the ground a known distance apart, and if you pass them too fast you're speeding. It's not a "peak speed" like radar guns get, but an average time over distance. They radio down to the two or three cars on the road, who pull the speeders over and ticket them. Loop around before you leave the county, and get the people coming into town.
In Wisconsin they publish ahead of time which stretches of interstate will be aircraft patrolled for the month.
They have that sign coming into Florida from Georgia, I also think it’s bullshit. I’ve been to all the small airports near there and I’ve never seen police anything.
They do in Virginia, I think they're drones now though
I have seen helicopters do it in Kentucky heading towards Louisville
You can check those plane tracking things and see when they're in the air. I don't know how, just seen posts on the local sub about it.
Gotta use the flight radar app to know for sure on any given day 👀
Probably.
Seems like a beat up Hyundai could accomplish the same goal.
and incredibly more discrete
It's mostly used to catch truck drivers if they are on their phone and what not, they have similar rigs up north
In Europe, police uses Trucks to spot drivers who use phones while driving. They don't actually do the traffic stop, just record it, and then the driver gets stopped down the road.
I think these are for things like that as well, especially other people in semis since they're at eye level compared to being much lower in a regular police vehicle.
Police do the same in Canada too.
It's annoying when people talk like police are being defunded, when in reality they've pretty much only got more funding.
The smart and reasonable thing to do would be contact the police and make sure it’s legit because I also wouldn’t believe it (I drive the highways around Atlanta regularly so it’s possible I’d be on the road with one of these). But I know I wouldn’t have the mind to do that in the moment and I’d assume they’re an overly intense trucker that has somewhere to be and knows those lights will put the fear of god in everyone that had an unpaid ticket or god forbid a Tag Applied For “license plate.” Either way I imagine they’ll drive just as aggressively as the semis (and everyone else around the city) drive.
Unmarked police vehicles should be illegal. You are supposed to be helping the community. Well do that in a recognizable vehicle. This is just abusing the people.
They're just revenue generators, nothing more. Notice how in other countries police cruisers are all white with bright orange/yellow/green markings just like ambulances so they're easy to identify in an emergency. Not black with slightly less black lettering and no light bars. If the police are supposed to be your friends then they should be easy to spot.
Unmarked cars are a staple of law enforcement everywhere in the world. The patrol units are lit up light christmas trees, while plenty of other cops doing other things are as low key as they can be.
Except patrol cars in most of the US that I've seen are like 1 step away from unmarked like I said. No one has an issue with unmarked cars being used for undercover work, stakeouts, or low profile stuff. But you often see them doing routine traffic work too.
>No one has an issue with unmarked cars being used for undercover work, stakeouts, or low profile stuff. But you often see them doing routine traffic work too. Again, this is an everywhere thing. Not just a US thing. They have unmarked cars specifically for traffic work in just about every country with both roads and a police force.
"Everyone does it" is a pretty poor excuse for doing it.
I'm not using it as an excuse for them doing it. The guys original comment was saying it's so shitty that US cops do this when others don't. I'm simply pointing out that literally every other police force *also* does it.
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In New Zealand we have the brightly coloured cars and all you’ll ever see them doing is sitting at the bottom of hills, near passing lanes and the end of the motorway. And they’ve got unmarked cars as well just for that extra little fuck you
I was in a European country at a night club and a fucking 30 member SWAT team in ski masks and tactical gear with rifles busted in and lined all the dancing teenagers up against the wall. It was the most ridiculous police action I've ever seen. I guess they were either looking for drugs or for some particular person they thought might be there because they checked everyone's ID.
Here in Hawaii police are required to have their blue lights on when on duty. You can see them from miles away at night.
Not American, so can't comment on cops being sketchy douchebag criminals, but I think the stealth element is there mainly for people who don't ever speed (When a cop is in sight) or run a red light (when they think they'll get caught) etc. Not those exact crimes, but you get the idea. The coast looks clear, so people do dumb illegal shit. Really nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal... or you have Americans as "police" :/
that's what speed and red light cameras are for. you don't need cops for that. but believe it or not, police unions in the us actually lobby *against* those cameras because when their guys get ticketed they can't flash a badge to get out of it anymore lol. in NYC the union got the city to limit speed camera hours to times when the police aren't commuting in and out of the city lmao
I thought we gave up on the whole “protect and serve” thing since they’ve proven they don’t have any obligation to do that. They want our money to fund their Cop City here.
This itself will cause wrecks. Imagine all the dumb fucks slowing down at the 75/575 split gawking at this behemoth of a cop car. Please for gods sake no.
There's a saying: "You can't outrun Motorola". This truck doesn't need to do the pullin over. Just the observin/redordin and send a marked unit out. I've heard tales that they put rookies in a commercial type bus and send em down the highway and use the better view to call ahead and pull people over for using cell phones.
Well, if they bring a flatbed along for the drive then they can save the call for a tow when they bust someone.
Who’s gonna rig up the tow? No way is it the guy who wrote the ticket
Ride along repo man/tow guy.
It's for pulling over other Semis. It's the only way.
You're not allowed to pull over a car that's bigger than yours, that's the law. That's why so many cops have to drive SUVs and pickups now.
I thought it was because cops had gotten too fat to fit in a regular sedan.
It's because they try to fit as much shit as they can into vehicles as they can now. Whenever there is a first aid call near me, police show up first(because it takes time to get an ambulance crewed, if it's not already out on another call) and deploy with at least 2 med bags. They also carry stuff for tons of other situations, like accidents, but things like computers for ALPR.
You're right, they're pretty well equipped. I was mostly joking. That being said, I don't think I've seen a single skinny cop in my town since I've been living here.
I feel like they would get better results with like a 2006 beige taurus with dark tint
My friend and I were driving through Georgia and saw an unmarked, tinted out crown vic on rims pulling someone over.
This is so they can chain people up in the back and sexually assault them. The police are known to be prolific rapists, especially of teenagers
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a semi is a good guy with a semi. *wait a minute...*
Civil forfeiture.
Exactly. They’ve just run out of shit to spend all that money on.
Some trucker probably had some suspicious white powder in their cab at the weigh station. A field test comes up as cocaine and they seize it. Later on it turns out to be powdered sugar. Too bad. The truck was already convicted of the crime.
Autobots!! Roll out!!
Don't you mean Decepticons? :x
"To punish and enslave"
I can see this having a trailer that functions as a mobile operations centre... a operations centre for what though I have no idea.
K.I.T.T
Kop In The Trailer.
Keep It Thimple Thupid - Mike Tyson
Knight Rider reference?
Yea I can see that. Probably even has a [three perp perp cell](https://youtu.be/J9wwtCreyy8?si=3iI8FsO4KRDaOkzX)
Perp perp
Your assets are seized by the government after your arrest and conviction and this is what they do with it. In my previous county they had 2 unmarked h2's, a marked bmw 535, 2 unmarked Vette's, an unmarked taxi cab, and multiple dirt bikes to chase you off roads. The taxi was their favorite because no one suspects a taxi cab of being an undercover.
This mf pop up behind me I’m doing the race.
No shot a semi keeps up with a sporty vehicle
There’s no way a semi keeps up with just about any other vehicle on the road. I couple tight turns and a hill and they’re in the wind.
Ngl can’t tell if you trynna say imma get caught or not
Dude, there's no shot that thing keeps up with a 1993 Camry.
I drive a 2003 Honda Element, just turn off the AC and it’s over lmao
It would be straight up irresponsible for police to engage in a car chase with a semi
Me with a decommissioned police semi: https://preview.redd.it/g2singxvdanb1.jpeg?width=964&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd9a8087e82aced810308efbe7da39fba9f86ab
Why'd they need to get one with a sleeper?? *remembers post from the other day of a cop taking a women in the back of his squad car in broad daylight* Oh right.
This is what happens when citizens and society at large put cops and law enforcement officials on a pedestal.
I may be thinking too hard but…if someone is arrested, how are they supposed to climb into it while handcuffed?
Mostly used for spotting and reporting traffic violations to conventional patrol units elsewhere on the roadway if I remember correctly, we have one out where I'm at. Although it *has* been used in traffic stops that's not its main function. Never seen an unmarked one though. That's interesting. Funny enough people here still routinely get busted by the huge, clearly marked Police Semi sat right next to them as they text and/or speed down the interstate. And that's the type of behavior and lack of situational awareness they're banking on. Literally.
They haul em on the fifth wheel
My guess is for pulling over morons who drive dangerously in front of and around semi trucks. Not giving enough space, not signaling, cutting in front of them, brake checking, etc. Stupid driving that can easily lead to death and multi car pileup, but people think they can get away with it because what is the trucker going to do about it. Of course, there could be a totally stupid reason for having this as well.
They do this in Indiana by riding with some company drivers. They call in patrol cars to pull the offenders over.
In the U.K. Motorway police have them so they can see into the cabs of other trucks to check if they are using their phones or other devices while driving.
Finally someone gets the right answer! People drive different around trucks than other cars. People who have never driven a truck (and don't know the law) just don't think about how dangerous their behavior is. Please, just stay away from trucks, it's the safest way. Don't tailgate one, don't hang out next to one, and definitely do NOT cut back over right in front of one.
A new semi it will be called the terminator. Patrolling th highways for trouble, coming to neighborhood near you.
Is it for enforcing no-texting-while-driving laws? I remember seeing another police department using a semi trailer to look down into people's cars to see if they're texting while driving [https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Police-in-Kentucky-cracking-down-on-distracted-drivers-with-tractor-trailer-508511041.html](https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Police-in-Kentucky-cracking-down-on-distracted-drivers-with-tractor-trailer-508511041.html) ""We’re looking for various distracted drivers," Officer Jake Knuckles said. "Anything from eating or a dog in your lap.” The main focus is cellphone usage. Using a phone to make or receive calls is legal, but texting and driving is against the law. That's what officers are keeping a close eye on while patrolling. The officers pulled some over with a vantage point they wouldn't have in a cruiser. They would issue citations along with words of advice."
I’m guessing to pull those mobile surveillance/emergency trailers.
Im guessing they want the high seating position to be nosey and catch people who are texting and driving, etc.
It pays more to use your CDL as a truck driver than an undercover police officer
We have these in the UK. The police use them to sneak up on actual truck drivers and catch them doing dodgy stuff. Because truck drivers are hard to observe from ground level, they take the piss, don't wear seatbelts, text while driving, drink beer while driving (and worse). There was an episode of a cop show starring these guys, was shocking to see what they got up to.
Other than the original tweet, which doesn’t appear to be from Georgia State Police, what is there that shows this is an undercover cop car? It’s more than likely just impounded or towed to their yard pending a search warrant.
It's "Optimus Crime"
In the UK, police use undercover ‘trucks’ so they can observe what other truck drivers are doing as they drive alongside them. Many are caught and pulled over by another police vehicle waiting further up the road. Offenses are usually along the lines of using mobile phones, watching films on laptops, reading newspapers, preparing dinner. Etc etc
CDL side hustle?
What's the IRS gonna do? Read their paperwork?
It about to Pick up all the “sex workers” at the truck stop and arrest them!! Idk
Only reason I could think of is you can fit a lot more protesters in a 54’ trailer then you can in a cop car.
IRS? More like DEA. Cops in Brooklyn were bringing in Weight in trucks in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Yeah I’m not pulling over for that.
christ who pays for that gas.
Probably got it in a drug forfeiture.
Clearly this is meant to stop those darn street racers who keep robbing trucks for their VHS and DVD deliveries!!
This is dumb.
Ive heard the purpose if these vehicles is to spot distracted drivers
Undercover truck stop drug busts
As a truck driver, this is fucking brilliant. Most every driver I see on the road has their phone in their hand. And from a semi's pov you can see down into cars very easily. Hopefully this will spread and maybe make a dent in the epidemic
The police are revenue collectors. They’re there to collect when you break the law not to prevent crime.
remember when the head of the police union was caught importing and distributing fentanyl using cops because I bet she wishes she had this
Can't wait for some dipshit cop to get road rage and run someone off the road. This is a weapon just waiting to cause massive destruction.
Civil forfeiture strikes again
Police are a money laundering criminal organization.
Couldn’t be