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I have the manner to slow down the speed, when I'm recognizing an old mid-90ies-Ford Escort Turnier (Estate) parking on the right, especially, when it has darkened back and side windows and when the back is hanging down a bit. Same with Opel Astra F Caravans in the same age - they are very common in the Ruhr Area and around as civil speed-control cars.
In the wintertime you can recognize them easier: the wipers are moving time by time, they aren't covered with snow and you can see little exhaust-clouds from the Eberspächer extra-heating.
In the 80ies the police has used very often VW Passat and Santana for that. Also easy to recognize: always basic versions in ugly, unpopular colours.
I had to lough, to see the cars braking, when my father's former car, a 1981 VW Passat was standing beside the street - it was very similar to these police-Passats.
In the wintertime you can recognize them easier: the wipers are moving time by time, they aren't covered with snow and you can see little exhaust-clouds from the Eberspächer extra-heating.
In the 80ies the police has used very often VW Passat and Santana for that. Also easy to recognize: always basic versions in ugly, unpopular colours.
I had to lough, to see the cars braking, when my father's former car, a 1981 VW Passat was standing beside the street - it was very similar to these police-Passats.
The politicans are looking always, how to get money... 
It is the same here ...
North Carolina politicians are progressively looking for more ways to leach money from the citizens.
One such example is new towing & regulation laws concerning boat and boat trailer dimensions (silly and unnecessary) which have been passed recently. Existing laws which were not enforced are now being aggressively enforced.The NC towing community is still very upset about these changes.
Trucks (pickup trucks) and Vans (full-size vans, not those little minivans) are required to have "special" weighted license plates (and they come with "special" prices too!) according to the amount of the total GCVWR on the move (GVWR of the vehicle + GVWR of the trailer)
Strangely, SUVs are by NC law, exempt from almost all NC towing regulations. But I’m sure that loophole will be closed at some point.
I just have seen a license-plate scanner in use yesterday, in our vacations.
I was a very little part (not bigger than two cigarette-packets), mounted inside the gate of the harbour of Esbjerg/Danmark, on the way to the ferry terminal to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
For safety reasons, but also for controlling, if you have paid the toll for two undersea-tunnels on the Faroe Islands. There are mounted these scanners, too.
Btw. the toll is fu..ing high - 130 Danish Crowns (ca.17,50 €). Sure, to pass some tunnels in the Alps costs more money - but the are longer than just 3 km.
Do you have known, where the bridge with most expensivest toll (compared to the lenghts) of the world stands? It's in Scotland, the bridge over the Loch Alsh to the Isle of Skye (just behind the legendaray Eilean Donan Castle). I don't know the actual price, but in 2001 it was over 10 Brit.Pounds.
O.k., as a German it's easy to be upset about toll for bridges, tunnels and especially roads. Here it's unknown (except for trucks). But it maybe come sooner or later. The politicans are looking always, how to get money...
I was a very little part (not bigger than two cigarette-packets), mounted inside the gate of the harbour of Esbjerg/Danmark, on the way to the ferry terminal to Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
For safety reasons, but also for controlling, if you have paid the toll for two undersea-tunnels on the Faroe Islands. There are mounted these scanners, too.
Btw. the toll is fu..ing high - 130 Danish Crowns (ca.17,50 €). Sure, to pass some tunnels in the Alps costs more money - but the are longer than just 3 km.
Do you have known, where the bridge with most expensivest toll (compared to the lenghts) of the world stands? It's in Scotland, the bridge over the Loch Alsh to the Isle of Skye (just behind the legendaray Eilean Donan Castle). I don't know the actual price, but in 2001 it was over 10 Brit.Pounds.
O.k., as a German it's easy to be upset about toll for bridges, tunnels and especially roads. Here it's unknown (except for trucks). But it maybe come sooner or later. The politicans are looking always, how to get money...
That's fine with me 
It certainly isn't classified knowledge or anything like that. Just out of curiosity, what did you write over the copy of my text?
And I suppose other people on the site thought it was some sort of radar?
It certainly isn't classified knowledge or anything like that. Just out of curiosity, what did you write over the copy of my text?
And I suppose other people on the site thought it was some sort of radar?