Traffic School - 01/10/2025

Alright. It's time for a little bit of Traffic School powered by The Advocates and I think I finally successfully got us to go live on Instagram. Alright. Cool. Facebook, I hope you can still hear us there as well.

We've got Emma hanging out today. She's, learning the ropes on talking on the mic, and I'm just trying to get lieutenant Crane to have a seat, sit in the seat, the hot seat. When do I get a lesson? Yeah. There's just no help left for you.

I've I've given up. I've given up. Feel comfortable about this. I'm looking down on you with that little kid's seat. You're always looking down on me.

What do you mean with just the little kid's seat? This this one's bucking. Alright. Let's see. See if I can, there we go.

Now we can see you. Yeah. Now we can see lieutenant Crane. Alright. As you can all tell, it's, you know, typical disaster around here when you're dealing with me.

He's live on the Cannonball page. It's live on Cannonball? I just got the notification. It's live on Cannonball. On Instagram?

Okay. Well, fine. Yep. I guess Cannonball, welcome to traffic school powered by the advocates. That's very strange because I set it up on the Kay bear profile.

I just saw Cannonballs live and it went, okay. Alright. Well, that's very weird. Anyhow, how are y'all doing? All doing good.

All doing good. You've been doing good. You've ignored us all morning now. All of a sudden you want us to talk to you. Yeah.

Yep. Finally. I've I'll finally put up with all of your crap, Lieutenant Crane. We also got Kyler in here. He had a question for traffic school.

So as I do a little bit more tinkering, get right up on that mic. Yeah. Don't worry. Yeah. Alright.

Perfect. That. Mhmm. And, go ahead and ask your question. Okay.

I have been bothered about this by, like, everybody in the office who sees me pulling up, and I, like, could have sworn, but I have a a headlight that is out, and I could have sworn that it's only, like, bad if you're driving with a taillight that's out. Is it bad if you only have one headlight that's working? It's an ISP felony, actually. Really? And he just admitted to it live on air.

Dang it. Get him out of here. So we'll get a hold of the Bonneville County prosecutor. We'll do that we'll do that big workup. No.

No. You do have to have both working headlights. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow.

Now how often do you guys ticket people for that? Daily. No. I know every little penny you can get. I'd have to say, I don't know if I've seen in a a several years a ticket come through for a failure to have both headlights working.

Right? Now if it's a problem that consists and we keep stopping, keep stopping, probably gonna write a citation for it. But, it's a great opportunity to make a contact and say, hey. I don't know if you're aware of this, but your headlight's out. Take the opportunity to get it repaired.

Alright. Yeah. I got pulled over for it once, and they were nice. They just let me know, hey. You know, go ahead and get that fixed, buddy.

I'm confused. Every topic we talk about, you say, yeah. I got pulled over. I know. You guys never leave me alone.

You know? I'm just trying to mind my own business, talk on my phone while I'm driving down the road, speeding, and then for some reason, they pull me over. You know, instead of missus Crane thinking of all these wonderful things you needed for Christmas, I should've just told her to get you a code book. Yeah. I I that would have been nice.

Then I wouldn't need you in on the show. Right? I could just answer all the questions. Alright. We've got more people in the house.

We've got Josh and Chantelle from Wake Up Classy 90 7. Chantelle, feel free to get right up on that mic there that Kyler was using for his voice. For a living. Not very well. I know how that goes.

Hey. I know you do this for a living, but here, let me give you some instructions. Alright. And if anybody's just tuning in online, we are relying on you for your questions traffic school powered by the advocates. So leave them in the live video comments.

Our phones are still broken. But Chantelle has I have a question for traffic school today. Answer anything about your husband. No. No.

I don't That was a decision you made on your own free will in choosing. This is a legitimate law You're stuck with him. Police enforcer question. Oh, yes. I have heard a rumor that a police officer cannot trail you for longer than 2 turns.

Oh. So for example, I was driving, not doing anything wrong Never in her life. Never. I was definitely not speeding. There was a police officer behind me, and I remembered that thing that I had heard, like, oh, if I turn twice, he can't follow me without just cause.

And I am taking him down. Is that true? False. But I do wanna share a fun story about that. Right?

So Highway 33 is kind of a long road right between Rexburg and the Sage Port of Entry out there. And, I get a call one day from a lady that lived north of Sage Junction on I 15. I had a trooper that lived north of Sage Junction on I 15. They just so happened to leave Rexburg at the same time, he being behind her. He follows her out there.

She calls me, wants to complain about him, wants him fired because he harassed her all the way up north of I 15. I said, ma'am, I'm so sorry, but he lives up there. How would you like him to get home? It's always weird when, you know, you just happen to get somebody stuck behind you like that because I I followed people from Somebody like what, Victor? That that, you know, seems to follow you for that far.

Made you made you nervous. Like, I've had people follow me all the way to my street. They're just trying the freeway. They're just trying to tell you, hey. That gas nozzle at Maverick still in the back.

Oh. Maybe that's it. Yeah. Maybe that's it. It makes you nervous, doesn't it?

It does. You're like, I'm doing everything right. Depends on what kind of lifestyle you live. Yeah. Pretty calm one.

Not a rebel like me. Alright. Alright. Alright. Thanks for the answer.

Along the same lines though, years years years ago, I was in high school and I got a speeding ticket. I was on First Street right by the Rose shop where it's 25, not 35, just so you know. And I I I I got pulled over. Changed in all the changes. It's still 25, not 35, on that stretch of First Street.

And I got pulled over not by a radar, but by a a trail. I my speedometer said you were going faster than 25. Is that a legit thing, or is that something that could have been contested in court? I paid the ticket, but but is that something is that a legitimate method for, finding a speed a speeder? So that's a great question.

The thing is this. First, we we write citations to try to change behavior, and I think this is a perfect example how that works. Josh realizes still years years later that speed limit's 25. That's a success story. But our speedometers in our patrol cars aren't certified any more than your personal vehicle.

Right? They're certified by the factory. That's it. What does happen though is if that officer can justify or testify to the fact that, hey, my radar is calibrated. It's on today, and it was on with my speedometer before and after the stop, and I was following this person at a pace of this speed.

Yeah. It's PC to stop. Yeah. And like I said, I I didn't contest it or, you know, I just paid the thing, but, but that was one of those instances. And I don't even know how fast I was going to, but it was probably between 2530 or 35, because that's a silly stretch of road.

That's 25. It's 25. Yeah. I think it should be a little bit faster there myself. I mean, if you can barrel down 17th in all that traffic at 40, come on.

Who's on first street? Kids or something walking in school? Jeez. I think that's where I think it goes, it's 25, and then there's a small little stretch of 35 after that school zone up until Woodruff, I think, is where it changes. But it's 25 from, what, North Boulevard or, Northgate Mile all the way to all the way down to Woodruff.

I I don't travel that enough to know. But Yeah. It it's something like that. I know it changes a few times, but alright. Well New win.

Glad to hear you glad to hear you learned your lesson. Yeah. Yeah. You know? That's how it goes.

I'm trying to turn it 2 less and I'm out of here. Alright. Thank you to Kyler, Josh, and Chantelle. Emma, do you have any questions for Traffic School powered by the advocates? No.

But I think this is good for me because I need to get a new driver's license. So I need to take a test. So Oh, so the license is expired? No. Actually, it's because I have a Washington license and I just changed my last name.

Oh, how long have you lived in this state? Well, okay. I was going here for school. So I've lived in the state for like 3 years, but I've only lived lived here. Violator.

Violator. Don't you have to change your address within, like, 30 days? Yeah. Notify. Oh, boy.

Emma, what a serial troublemaker you are. You're not passing no background. My goodness. Yeah. Better get down to the DMV.

Stand in line. That's your punishment. Don't worry. The DMV likes Kay Bear, so just walk in with a Kay Bear shirt or beanie, and they will treat you well. Oh, there you go.

Great staff there. I had that weird incident where I sold my daughter's car to a guy or bought my daughter a car from a guy, and he had written out the, title to Victor Wilt. And so I show up at the DMV and I'm having to explain, like, alright. Here's why this is filled out incorrectly, and, they they got it fixed for me. I thought it was gonna be a major hassle.

That's why. One problem out of many. Somebody's fixed for you. If I can fix any problems, it's it's a good thing. Alright.

Let's give a shout out to people listening on Facebook and Instagram. Sorry that you listening on the radio can't call us. If you have a question, please post it in the live video on Instagram or Facebook. Alexis wanted to know, can I drive around the roundabout like a merry-go-round? You hear about that Waymo in Arizona that got stuck in the roundabout?

I have not. You you've seen those, driverless Waymos when you've been down in Phoenix. Right? Yeah. Apparently, one of them didn't know what to do.

So it was that a number of minutes, just do do do do do. We've talked about this before. What was it? Delivery? I'm guessing people, You know?

I mean, it you know, just people trying to take a cab, but instead they got a fun ride. So illegal or just a waste of time too. Waste of time. So, Alexis, have fun. Yeah.

I I recommend doing it at the roundabout that seems to make people the angriest. The the one near Costco. You feel like you're in NASCAR. It's it's fun. It's fun.

You do have to what's the speed limit in a roundabout? I think it's 20. 20? That's what most of them are marked. My truck will go around corners.

I'm higher speed. You gotta you gotta see what's marked coming into it, but some of them were 15, 20 miles an hour. That's just no fun. Depends on how big or small it is. Right?

There's some of them small ones, 20, you're railing. Hey. I've got a lot of, you know, racing driving skills. Yeah. You got something.

As you've seen, you've seen out on that figure 8 race track. Nobody wanna race against me. Let's see here. Stewart wanted to know, has anyone ever stolen a cop car by mistake and brought it back to apologize? I I don't know how you do that by mistake, but, we have had a couple cop cars come up missing while on stop, so it it it's kinda fun.

Well, I no more got hired for the Idaho State Police, and I'm down in, I was assigned to American Falls, but we're down south of Pocatello on I 15, and, 2 troopers were out on a stop on a stolen vehicle. They arrested a mother and a daughter. They put the mother in 1 car, put the daughter in the other car, and we have cages in our cars with a glass slider petition. Mhmm. And, the one individual for failed to shut his glass slider, so the young girl flipped her cuffs up in front of her, climbed through the petition, and drove off in the patrol car.

The best part of that was is as you see from the other camera, they're standing there talking about how they're gonna handle this and tow trucks and these things. And as it takes off, you hear it take off. And, they they look over, and the guy that the car belonged to, he goes, hey. Is that my car? So it's the same time we had Crown Vicks, and we're going to or we're leaving the Caprices, the Chevy Caprice, and go to the Crown Vicks.

The Caprices were a lot faster, the Crown Vicks. Right? So she's in the Caprice. The other troop jumps in his Crown Vic. They take the mother out of the car.

So now we got a trooper stand on the shoulder of the road with the mother. He takes off after our car, and, so he's chasing her. She gets off headed to Lava Hot Springs and, you know a good place to try to hide. Yeah. So she's taking that windy road.

On the straightaways, she's blowing the doors off that ground. So big distance is going between them. I'm now, trying to catch up to this pursuit. I'd come from out of the Pocatello area, and then he'd get in the corners, and you'd see this on the video, and he would catch up to her. And then she'd come out of the corner and blow his doors off again.

Well, she's handcuffed, and then she decided she was gonna try to light a cigarette. Went off the road, started going up the mountain, got stuck. We run up. We get her in custody again. No damage to our car.

Thank goodness. But I can tell you the policy reminder come out that we are to close our petitions and use our anti theft devices. So last week, we were talking about good video for the state police to put up on their socials. That sounds like a pretty funny one. Grab my car.

That that would probably do pretty well. Yeah. So, if, again, you're tuning in right now going, why is the phone busy? Our phones are broken, and we don't know when they'll be fixed. Gotta ask us questions on Facebook or Instagram.

I'm assuming that the audio is working on Instagram, and Pete just said, you know, he got the notification that Cannonball went live. I checked it, and we are live on the K Bear Facebook, everybody. If we're live on Cannonball 2, fantastic. I don't mind. We got s 3.

What more do we need? Now I just need to figure out how to go live on, you know, the other radio stations in town's Facebook pages. That would be a lot of fun. So it's such a habit to start throwing out the phone number. I I don't know how to run this show without phones.

You know how fun it'd be be to be able to go, hey, Shaggy. What's that dog? It would be pretty fun. It would be pretty fun. Like, dude, it's cool over here.

Yeah. I I don't think Shaggy would mind. I think there are some other personalities that might get a little bit upset if I hijack their social media. Shaggy's pretty laid back. Shaggy's awesome.

He's a he's a good dude. He's a good dude. He's not as good of a dude as me, but he's a good dude. Alright. We've got, Josh says, do you guys need the number of my IT guy?

Get your phone fixed. Josh, hit up a jade@riverbendmediagroup.com. Bryce Hendrickson says Crown Vicks. I knew Lieutenant Crane worked in the 19 twenties. It's, I guess, just a roasting here.

Yeah. That's perfect. And they're so so right. I mean, Crown Vicks had some really good qualities about them, but they were not fast. Yeah.

You'd think that would be kinda the one thing you guys need be able to get somewhere quickly in the event of an emergency. But alright. If you wanna ask us a question, our audio must be working on Instagram because we've got a question from Griggs Thane. Wanted to know if there's any laws for shoveling snow from the street to another part of the street. I have to street park, and with the plows, I can't park.

Can you shovel the snow from in front of your driveway, in front of your house To your neighbor. Yeah. Depends on how much you dislike them. Yeah. So what's interesting about that, there is city ordinances.

Most cities have them. Just check your city that you live in, but you can't even shovel the snow off your sidewalks or driveway into the road. What? Yeah. No.

I've actually, raged on air about that a few times. I haven't seen anyone yet this season blasting snow with a snowblower onto Woodruff on my way to work. So I think people are learning. Or you'd stop and say, I am a citizen. Yep.

Citizens of the rest. You know, I like nothing better than pulling over at, about 5:45 AM and getting in a confrontation with somebody. Well, it's a lot of fun. So sorry, Gregs. You're gonna have to, shovel it into your lawn or something like that.

Adam Anthony wants to know if it's illegal to drive a car that's missing a door. Oh, that's a great question, and the answer would be no. Actually, when I was a young man in, high school, I worked for a farmer, and he'd rolled a pickup, not him personally, but one of his employees. And we got it back out. We hooked it to our hay hauler, and the cab was all mashed down.

So we took the doors off. We took a handyman, jack jacked it back up, and, not illegal to not have a windshield either, but you have to have windshield wipers. Right? So we had windshield wipers, no windshield, no doors, and we pull this hay trailer back and forth to the ranch and haul hay on it? But no.

But the bottom line is, man, that don't seem real safe. And if you're doing that, please wear your seat belt. Yeah. Because there's, like, jeeps that people, you know, will just take the doors off and, you you know Keep your arms and legs inside the right at all times till it comes to a complete stop. You ever seen that movie hereditary?

No. K. I I won't describe the scene, but it there's a valuable lesson to be learned about, not sticking, you know, your, like, an arm or maybe your head out the window of a car. Man, I handled a DUI crash one night there at the 308 on Highway 20. The guy come out way too fast, slid out till he hit that concrete divider, tipped his vehicle on its side, had his window open, had his arm out.

Oh, no. And, it just grounded off right to the elbow. Oh. Yeah. It was a sad deal.

That is, yeah, not good. Please be safe out there, everybody. And, again, with the slick conditions, give yourself extra time heading where you're headed and especially in neighborhoods. Supposed to get snow tonight, 2 inches. No.

No. Why are you ruining my day? That's enough that you have to get out and deal with it. And I I think based on the temperatures I've been seeing, it's not gonna melt off anytime soon. It's staying chilly.

Yeah. I guess it could be worse. You know, I'd I'd rather deal as much as I hate the snow, rather deal with that than, you know, like, what they're dealing with in LA. Oh, that's that's sad. It's crazy.

Yeah. I was talking to a a number of friends over there yesterday. Wait a minute. Just checking in. I do have friends.

Did you hear that? Okay. Okay. Alright. They're business acquaintances.

Well, yeah. Me, mom, my friends. My harem. I didn't know cats could talk. Woah.

We got Emma with the with the jabs. See, there you go. Yeah. You're learning. Alright.

Let's see. Twin cat lady and a cat man. I don't know what I don't either. Alright. I've about had it.

I've about had it. The 2 of you. Emma, cats or dogs? I don't know. I always wanted a pet growing up, but my parents never let me have one.

So now I just What? Yeah. Okay. Well, yes, you got a husband. You know?

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. That's yeah. That's that's much more of a hassle than a cat or a dog.

But if you had if you were gonna get a pet, which would you go for for the first shot? Probably a cat. Alright. Team cat. Slow down.

Do you think your husband's been easier to train or harder to train than a dog? Well, no. He's really self sufficient, but actually, also, he's, like, not allergic to cats, but he'll say that he will because he does he doesn't want 1. So he's a liar. Yeah.

You could tell him to invest in Zyrtec and, you know, it it helps. And another good thing is if if you get a cat that's, like, well trained, I got a cat from a police officer who claims he doesn't like cats. And, I don't know something about a cat from a cop. She's a she's a good kitty. Aside from when it comes to snacks, you know, how cops like donuts.

She likes those cat treats. She is she breaks into the cupboards. I find the bags of treats all over the house, all tore up. She she's mischievous, and I know where she gets it from, her grandpa. All right.

What else do we have online here? Peaches says Dorothy told him to get a hairless cat. You could get any, you know, an Egyptian sphinx cat, Emma, for the allergies there. Let's see here. We've, we've actually got a decent number of questions, or questions.

Or these are mostly statements. How about some questions, guys? Let's see here. Is there a law about how much of your car windows have to be cleared off? Darla wants to know.

Oh, that's a great question. So the view of the driver forward facing has to be cleared off completely. Right? So when we talk about that, it's not just directly in front of you as the driver. You gotta be able to see to the right, see through your windshield to the right.

You gotta be able to see out of your right passenger door window. You gotta be able to see out of your left driver's door window, and you have to be able to see either through your rear view mirrors or have the back window stripped off. Alright. There you go, Darla, And let's check out Instagram. Oh, look.

My daughter wanted to know. In Pocatello, I saw somebody driving their motorized wheelchair down Yellowstone. What's the rules on that? On the street itself? That's what she's saying on Yellowstone.

That's a short life expectancy. Yeah. I well, I don't know. Can a motorized wheelchair get up to 35? No.

It can't. They they need to be up on the and see, this is why we put in handicap accessible sidewalks. Yeah. But what about the people who don't know the law about clearing off their sidewalk? Yeah.

That's true. That's true. Stuck in the sun. But Pocatello don't have any snow. There's no snow in Pokey right now?

No. We could go down the sidewalks here in Idaho Falls. Not in my neighborhood. Well, that's because all your neighbors shoveled their snow onto the sidewalk. Right.

Alright. So there you go, Taryn. John wanted to know what's the difference between careless driving and reckless driving. Oh, that's a great question, and it's kind of depends on the view of the officer that's handling the case. Right?

So careless would be like you've made 1 or 2 errors that cause a collision or concern. Reckless would be you're going out of control. Okay. Alright. Great question, John.

Amy wanted to know, how do you determine where you can do a u-turn legally? You ignore me? No. You don't wanna pay attention to me? I'm getting You're turning into me now?

A phone call from one of your friends. One of my is it an actual friend? It's Cash. Oh, okay. Alright.

Yeah. Cash is a friend. You gotta tell him. Yeah. The phones are broken.

If you wanna join the show, get on Facebook. So to do a u-turn. Right? A lot of intersections allow you to do u turns. You just wanna be careful there that when you do those, you're on a solid red green arrow Mhmm.

So that other traffic's not coming the other direction. You can't do it over a double yellow line. So if you're going down a road that's got 2 to 4, lanes, you can't do a u-turn if there's a double yellow in the middle. Okay. So, like, hit road, at the intersection of hit and, Sunnyside, If you go to, like, Culver's or like that new Burley Burger or any of those places Burley Burger, I've I've you know, it's poorly named because you know how I feel about Burley, but it's not spelled the same.

So I'll I'll give them the pass. If if you turn out from there, they have put one of those really annoying dividers in the middle of the road so you can't make a left turn. So it's, you know, right turn only to exit. Are you allowed to make a u-turn around one of those? Is it is it the yellow line you really need to keep an eye out for?

Yeah. And you'll know, especially on, hit road and those roads where that traffic's so heavy through that area. They have it marked where you can and you can't. They've actually even made some pullouts. So, if you make that U-turn that you've got enough enough room if you're driving a big pickup or pulling something, you can make make that corner but so it's pretty well marked where you can and cannot.

Okay. Great. Let's see here. Stuart letting us all know that there is not a lot of snow in Pokey. Maddie wants to know, can he get a DUI on a horse?

Nobody can get drunk and intoxicated in public. Okay. Now what if you feed the horse beer? You ever heard that song? Yep.

Beer for my horses? You've see what's you've really expanded your knowledge by taking over the, country station. Oh, yeah. Dude, I am a musical, a genius. I know everything.

That was a good song back in the day. Right? I don't know if it's appropriate. I I think that, you know, depends on the kind of beer you give the horse. You know?

You're gonna give him some of that comes from grain. Right? Yeah. So may maybe it's good for him. Tells him barley.

They like that kind of stuff. Right? They they'll eat it and drink it. So if the horse is drunk, can the horse get a DUI? No.

The horse cannot, but the rider can, get a citation for being intoxicated in public and being a public nuisance. How many beers does it take to get a horse drunk? I don't know. Come on. You're a police officer.

How much does a horse weigh? And he's gotta do meth. It's kinda like the human being. Right? It depends on the size, weight, and, how much food they've taken, how much tolerance they have.

Now does I mean, tolerance wouldn't lower your blood alcohol content, though. Right? Like, you could be somebody who you know, every day, you pound down a, you know, 5th of liquor, and you've got a very high tolerance. Would you I I would assume that that doesn't make any difference. You function better.

Yeah. Yeah. But you're still just as wasted. Depends on how much body fat you have, and there's a lot of variables that go into that. Okay.

Alright. Just curious here. Darla wanted to know what's wrong with Burley. Darla, I worked in Burley for about a decade, and I had a a number of, bad experiences in Burley. They actually wanted him to work.

Now I mentioned this on air yesterday to get to work. When I worked in Burley, I didn't have a car. I walked both ways in the snow. No lie. Miles uphill, boys.

I mean, it was flat. But still, I walked a a couple miles early in the morning in the snow to work because I wanted to get the job done, and I didn't have a car. So Do smoke shops, do they pay a lot? At the time, it was acceptable. It was better than fast food.

My I had good bosses. They they took care of me for sure. Did I ever tell you it was a smoke shop? Are you looking into my past? Dude, I can figure things out.

Okay. Let me just check. Well, okay. Yeah. It's burly.

Alright. Again, if you're just tuning in, our phones are broken, so you're gonna have to post your questions on Facebook or on Instagram and our live videos. Let's see. Has making it so you can't turn left on certain roads done what they are intended for and cut back on accidents, or are they just annoying? Erica wants to know.

Just plain annoying. We get in these meetings, and we think, what can we do to screw with the motoring public? What a kind of figure. What a kind of figure. So no.

Let's talk about that because that's a great question. The transportation department, they do all kinds of studies, and they put out road counts. And when you see those little rubber strings that go across the road, they're counting cars and many ways they can do that. 1 that's one way that people know they're getting counted, though, right, when you're driving across the the counter. So they count cars.

They count how many is making a left, how many is doing, and, the math formulas are crazy that go into that. So kids stay in school. With that being said, they're coming up with the safest way possible to keep the flow of traffic going at the most efficient manner and, with the least amount of crashes. Awesome. Awesome.

Alright. Let's see. Brendan Peach, some guy named Brendan Peach wants to know, did those cops that assessed that truck getting stuck under the d Street bridge situation laugh at that dude? You know what? It's kinda like this.

The first time it happens, it's pretty dang funny. The second time it happens, it's kinda funny. The 51st time it happened, you're like, could you guys please read your travel route? Yeah. I I don't know how many times in the years I've lived in Idaho Falls, I've seen a Facebook picture of a new 18 wheeler stuck under that that little bridge.

So I I mentioned earlier, I started my career with the Idaho State Police in American Falls, and the overpass on the east side is about 4 inches too short for them to bring manufactured homes from Caldwell Okay. Eastbound. Oh, boy. Every one of them, the Charles plan, say you have to exit that exit. Go up over the top, and go back down.

I would probably get 3 a summer that they just barrel right through there. But the problem is, I don't know if you know this, but manufactured homes are made out of light sticks. They would just shave, like, 6 inches off the top of the roof, and there would be wood splinters everywhere. But they would pull all the way through and just shave the whole, the whole roof off. Okay.

Alright. Now that's something I wanna see some photos of online. What are you doing, Aberdeen? Come on. American Falls.

American Falls. Yeah. So that goes back to hey. The first time I rolled up, I'm like, oh my gosh. This is awesome.

The second time, I'm like, this is pretty crazy. The 10th time, I'm like, would you guys please read your travel? Why don't they just make the ceilings shorter in these places? You know? Like the old the old days.

Don't go with 8 foot ceilings. Go with 7. Yeah. 6. You know?

Alright. Let's see. Mike wants to know if a road is under construction and has traffic candles closing it traffic candles closing it off, is it illegal to blow past them and use the road anyway? Absolutely. Alright.

Alright. Yeah. Don't go through the road close sign. Could be somewhat dangerous. There's times that there's holes in the road, and that's why they're moving you over.

Right? I've seen a few stories over the years where somebody is just following their GPS and goes airborne. And, yes, did not end well. I did not see that coming. Alright.

Well, you know, I'm kinda glad I figured out how to work everything, like, way into the show. So now we can call it a day. Exactly. Emma, any other questions today for Traffic School powered by the advocates or any other cheap jabs you'd like to make? I have a question about headlights because I'm always getting blinded by these super bright headlights, and it's so hard to see especially when trying to make a turn.

So is there any regulations for how bright your headlights can be? Absolutely. And adjustments. Right? So if they're blinding oncoming drivers, they need to be adjusted down.

All these new vehicles, their lights are so good, man. When you're driving without anybody around, you can see forever. That's wonderful. But you need to take into consideration oncoming traffic or traffic you're following behind. And if you're blocked or obstructing their view by your lights hitting their mirrors and and hitting their eyes or coming to them, yeah, you need to adjust them and and get them adjusted down so you're not blinding people.

But I tell you, you put them in your own vehicle, it's the best. It's the best. In my truck, you can adjust them, like, while you're driving. Turn them up. So I can just feel oh, hey.

Look. It's lieutenant crane. And, you know, just kinda move them upward a little bit. You don't know what to turn up more, that or the bass? Both.

Yeah. I go for both. Thumping and blinding. Gotta have a lot of bass for sure. Alright.

Let's see. I guess one more final quick question from Adam. How many, police officers are pulled over for speeding or other violations made while in, their cruisers? Does that ever happen? You know, I would assume in their personal vehicles, but That does happen in personal vehicles for sure, but I I was interesting.

We were just talking about this this week. We actually had and it's happened. We got new recruits out as you know, and there's times when we deal with other police officers, and there's times that our police officers have made mistakes, and and, we've had to deal with it. Right? So that question come up.

Hey. What do we do? What do we do if we have to deal with another officer? And the answer is we do exactly what we do with anybody. The change comes when if they're being incarcerated, what do we do?

We definitely don't wanna put a police officer in a jail with a bunch of people that they've incarcerated themselves. We have special arrangements we do, and I'll just kinda keep that under my hat. But, so I that's the the guidance to that trooper, this new trooper is, hey. Obviously, when you know you're dealing with another officer or, somebody that's in the political realm or has some standing that will be well known, you get a hold of your supervisor right away. We continue to do our job the way we do our job.

We collect the evidence. We get ready to be able to, prove this, violation in court. The only thing that changes is if they're going to jail, where are they going? Okay. Alright.

That that makes sense, you know, for sure. So that's why it takes so long whenever I get pulled over. Yeah. We're trying to decide, where are we putting him? Do we need the special Raymonds?

Is he well known enough? We can't send him to Burley. Now which cities is he in? You know, he's yeah. I know not a lot of people like him there.

Yeah. You would go directly to Bonneville County. Yeah. Okay. Alright.

Don't pass go. And, Emmanuel wanted to know if you can drink a beer while riding in an Uber. Yeah. If you're not the driver, you could drink a beer back there. Well, no.

You could be because the driver could kinda reach you. So you could be cited for open container by passenger. Alright. What if it was in a van and you were 2 rows back? Motorhome.

Motorhome. Motorhome, you can. Right? So Van, no. Motorhome, yes.

So is that how those party buses work? How they're able to get away with that? I've never been invited. I don't I'm not like you. I don't have friends all over the place that invite me to all these cool parties and call me when things happen in California.

So I've never been invited to a party then. Well, nobody called me. I just called them. And they're like, yeah. I'm fine.

Bye. The last thing you wanna do if you're getting a party van is call your cop buddy. Hey, lieutenant Craig. Come down and join the Rock Radio Convention. We're having a blast in Vegas, man.

Yeah. Whoo. Oh, man. Bring a cop to the, you know, the convention. That that might be pretty fun.

Alright. Well, I know we have a lot of other questions, but, we're we're like way overdue here to to bail out on this and end this show. So thank you to everybody that took part. Thank you as always, Lieutenant Crane for coming by, and I hope you learned some valuable things about radio. Emma hanging out.

Sure. Thank you for having me. Watching me train wreck it with the, software and things like that. No. Anything, you need to get out to the community.

Hey. I just say this. If we do get that snowstorm tonight, hey. Be cautious. Slow down.

And, like we talk every time. Right? Just build time into your travels. Build time into your following distance. Make sure your car is ready.

There you go, people. We'll see you next Friday for traffic school powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Traffic school is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To get more info on the show or to contact us, hit up our website, riverbendmediagroup.com.

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