{"id":6029,"date":"2015-08-11T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:04:20","slug":"im-getting-a-ticket-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/im-getting-a-ticket-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Getting A Ticket For What???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/copcar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6030\" alt=\"copcar\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/copcar.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m sure that the powers that be for traffic control have a quota system going. There can\u2019t be any other explanation for it. Why else would they hand out tickets for tiny little things seemingly at random? Why else would the people who do the roadworthiness tests fail vehicles for teeny little things? Why else would the drivers\u2019 licence testing people fail people for very, very minor issues \u2013 which may have nothing to do with the driving? You know perfectly well that on other days, there would be no problem at all.<\/p>\n<p>Blame Key Performance Indicators and all that management hooey.\u00a0 Traffic cops, inspectors and testers have to be Seen To Be Doing Their Job, which means that they have to find something to fail or ticket to justify their jobs. I kind of understand this, as when I\u2019m not having fun writing driving-related blogs, I work as a proofreader; picking out a missing full stop or a typo the spell-checker missed shows the client that I actually did do some work. The difference, however, is that my clients want error-free reports and research papers, so are happy to get barely noticeable typos picked up, whereas nobody wants to be ticketed or failed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure these picky little fails and tickets have happened to you.\u00a0 They certainly have happened to people I know.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a selection:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cop who ticketed an elderly woman for \u201cdriving without her seatbelt\u201d because she had turned the engine on before putting her seatbelt on (to warm up the engine of her little old hatchback on a cold winter\u2019s day, naturally).<\/li>\n<li>A teenager sitting their provisional licence test who failed because he didn\u2019t stop for \u201clong enough\u201d at a stop sign, even though the road was quiet.<\/li>\n<li>Another teenager who turned up to the licence test in a farm vehicle that smelt of dogs and substances on the bottom of gumboots even after having a good clean out (said teenager had come into town from rural area, as this was the only place to sit the test). Squeamish townie tester decided the car wasn\u2019t in adequate condition for the test = fail.<\/li>\n<li>The cop who gave my other half a ticket for driving too slowly while towing a heavily loaded trailer.\u00a0 This happened not too far away from a road packed with those billboards warning people about excess speed.<\/li>\n<li>My friend\u2019s car failed a roadworthiness test because of a bit of stick-on window tint that was deemed to be \u201ctoo dark\u201d and obscuring the driver\u2019s vision\u2026 although it was on a rear window more or less in the driver\u2019s blind spot and had been applied to keep my friend\u2019s red-haired, pale-skinned little kids out of the strong summer sunlight.<\/li>\n<li>The cop who we saw coming the other direction but, after we had gone past, decided to turn around and follow us for the next 20 or so kilometres until the other half\u2019s attention went off the speedo for a few seconds and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/car-reviews\/volvo\/ \">Volvo <\/a>crept over the speed limit. Actual quote from said cop:\u00a0 \u201cYou weren\u2019t going much over the limit when I clocked you but I could tell that you were going to go faster.\u201d \u00a0What \u2013 do they fit cop cars out with crystal balls as well as speed cameras these days?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here\u2019s your chance to have a bit of a rant.\u00a0 What teeny little things did you get pulled up and fined for or failed for?\u00a0 Tell us about them (but please keep names and easily identified places out of it or we might be looking at lawsuits and we\u2019d rather not have the hassle).<\/p>\n<p>Safe and happy driving (hopefully without tickets),<\/p>\n<p>Megan <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/bistrodengi-zaymi-online-nalichnymi.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/bistrodengi-zaymi-online-nalichnymi.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure that the powers that be for traffic control have a quota system going. There can\u2019t be any other explanation for it. Why else would they hand out tickets for tiny little things seemingly at random? Why else would the people who do the roadworthiness tests fail vehicles for teeny little things? Why else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11680,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/11680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}