Interstate speeders beat the rap

            We try to drive safely and within the posted speed limits on interstate highways – but it’s dangerous.  It’s dangerous in the right-hand (slower) lane.
It’s more dangerous to drive within the speed limit in the left lane.
            The other motorists, particularly truckers – tailgate, toot, and pass at speeds 10 miles or more above the limit, be it 60, 65, 70 or 75.
            Occasionally a patrolman will clock and stop a speeder. But most drivers are wary enough with their fuzz buster instruments, cell phones or CB radios to elude the law. Truckers quite effectively give warnings about “Smokey” in the area up and down the highway through their constant radio conversation en route,
            In earlier days the cops hid behind billboards to spot speeders. That technique could nab a great many of these scofflaws. Patrolmen in unmarked cars, advantageously parked along or near the highway, could efficiently clock violators and radio a message to a stake-out ahead, or simply mail a speeding ticket by mail.
            Eventually the growing problem of speeding will make new techniques like this necessary. I wish they’d start doing it now.