I can just tell by the way the way FedUpTrucker is talking that this guy is one of these cowboy truckers that put other people in danger on the road to save half an hour of time. "It makes no difference the size of the vehicle that moves down the road," It most certainly does, do you think a transport truck can stop even close to the stopping distance of a midsize sedan? A speeding transport truck, if involved in a collision, will cause a lot more destruction than a vehicle. As to thinking you are entitled to using the far left lane on a 3 lane highway I wouldn't suggest doing that b...

I think its pretty known that people "routinely" break the law of 100km/hr maximum speed. Don't you remember the high profile case of two drivers doing 100km/hr on the 401 driving side by side in the left and middle lane to protest a ticket he received earlier that month for travelling 115 in 100km/hr zone. They were both charged under this section. So no, it is not okay to travel at 100 km/hr in the far left lane. I am looking at this issue from purely a safety and traffic management stand point. (Cars passing on the right at a higher rate of speed) It would literally be impossible ...

Here's a very interesting link showing how each state in the United States deals with the issue of enforcing this law. http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html The bottom paragraph is very interesting when it talks about transport trucks doing 60mph in a 55mph zone when traffic flow is travelling @ 65 mph and police will actually ticket the transport blocking the left lane doing 60mph. I drive in the US regularly and this is a common issue. Most state thruways/highways are two lanes and sometimes trucks will block the left lane for 10 miles + while SLOWLY trying to pass another truck that is travell...

Hence the problem with the section Simon. You must agree that it is quite dangerous for a driver to drive in the far left lane @ 100km/hr. Passing in lane 2 and/or lane 3 causes many accidents on our roads. This article I referred to though suggests that it's officers fault for not properly enforcing this violation when in fact there is no violation. There should be a new section written in there regarding this problem of common courtesy. I think its more than recognized that travelling at 110-115km/hr on the 400 series is not something you're going to be ticketed for given you are following a...

http://www.wheels.ca/Columnists/article/801674 Here's an interesting article regarding an angry columnist who is tired of left-lane hogs who travel in the left lane and will not move over for a vehicle behind them wanting to travel faster. The writer just blames enforcement and the police for not taking the initiative and the time to ticket these offenders when he clearly fails to realize that the HTA section 147 is not adequate enough to ticket someone who will hog the left lane travelling at 110-115km/hr. I researched this section myself and it is a problem. In summary, the section says that...

Exactly, no one knows about this cobalt ss 2009+.

Someone in a BMW, G35 or AUDI rolls up on this cobalt and laughs when they rev the engine but then gets spanked and assumes the car has 20k+ of mods when it is actually bone stock and just simply out performs a lot of very expensive cars mid-range sports cars.

You have to look at the overall cost though, is the increased purchase and maintenance price of a BMW/infinity worth the savings on insurance?

You are very unaware my friend. Although this article doesn't give the details, I guarantee you this was a Cobalt SS 2009 or newer, it is probably the best sleeper car under 30k you could buy (discontinued, replaced by the Chev. Cruze) Go do a google search on the powertrain of the 2010 cobalt ss turbo, and the lap times recorded on the N¼rburgring in Germany, the cobalt ss was smoking cars from audi, mitsibushi, porshe, mercedes; MSRP of 10-20k more than the stock cobalt. 260 "base/stock" horsepower which is easily increased with the GM approved stage kits. 270 pounds of tq This car...

This ticket is not worth fighting at all. The police officer more than likely did clock you at 140+, easily too, if you did approach him at a high rate of speed during low volume of traffic it would be hard to not have noticed your vehicle in his rear view mirror and his radar display in the front dash reading 140+. He did you a great favour probably because it was your first offence by reducing the ticket to 105. If you do take this to court the prosecutor has every right to raise the offence back to the original speed if noted by the officer and would be very risky for you to risk the increa...

If someone was dialling on their phone, on the keypad, but got pulled over before the call could be completed then there would be no way for the accused to prove he/she was dialing and not texting because no record would show on the phone bill of a call being connected. Bear you make a good point, I think if police use common sense it shouldn't be a problem. I have seen some horrible drivers that like to put their phones up on the steering wheel so they can use their thumbs on the phone and fingers on the wheel. And they spend 20% of time watching the road and 80% looking at their device. I ju...

Actually the law reads that the device could potentially be sitting "securely" in a cupholder. Because the device would not move during motion of the vehicle, whereas if it were sitting on a persons lap or on the passenger seat it would be movable during motion.

This law is so dumb. There's so much room for error.

Exemption for pressing buttons 14. (1) A person may drive a motor vehicle on a highway while pressing a button on a hand-held wireless communication device to make, answer or end a cell phone call or to transmit or receive voice communication on a two-way radio if the device is placed securely in or mounted to the motor vehicle so that it does not move while the vehicle is in motion and the driver can see it at a quick glance and easily reach it without adjusting his or her driving position. You are right Bear. The law reads that regardless of whether the device is mounted to your vehicle or n...

The problem is exactly what Squishy said, the HTA law says if the cell phone is "mounted" to the vehicle in some form (you can buy one of the AC/Heat ventilation mounts from Walmart for 20 bucks) you can press as many buttons on it as you wish, same goes for the GPS mounted units.. Not quite....there is a Excemption to use the "buttons" and is only for a cellphone....GPS is not included. Exemption for pressing buttons 14. (1) A person may drive a motor vehicle on a highway while pressing a button on a hand-held wireless communication device to make, answer or end a cell ph...

This law is severely flawed albeit a step in the right direction. Don't get me wrong I despise people who text and drive. Being a motorcyclist, distracted drivers are the greatest threat to my life while riding. The problem is exactly what Squishy said, the HTA law says if the cell phone is "mounted" to the vehicle in some form (you can buy one of the AC/Heat ventilation mounts from Walmart for 20 bucks) you can press as many buttons on it as you wish, same goes for the GPS mounted units. So to be honest I don't see the point of this law, if people can just buy a mount and now text o...

Our Country is so dependant on transport trucks that limiting their usage along the main transportation sector of our province (400 series highways) will never happen.

Look up the statistics on transportation of goods in Canada.

The food you ate last night, the shirt you're wearing, the chair you're sitting on, the keyboard you're typing with all was likely in the back of a transport truck at some point.

The officer had a blackberry smart-phone so I can only assume he had access to 3 or 4 G coverage to do a quick search. I understand about the visual inspection and that makes sense to me and I didn't think of it at the time, although the officer knew my helmet was brand new. I still can't understand who in their right mind would ever put a fake DOT sticker on a full-face helmet, I am pretty sure you can't even find adult sized full-face helmets for sale at any retail store/online store that isn't DOT approved or at least you would have a hard time finding one. The whole point of this post wasn...