My rule of thumb, regarding traffic cops, has served me well since the mid-1970’s.
If there is a cop behind me, I pull into a parking lot or side road at my first opportunity. It forces their hand. Usually they’ve not gotten to a point where they’ve decided they are going to pull me over for a non-infraction.
This was a local event versus a highway event. My guess is cop decided to blast me with a license plate reader and had to wait for the results. Pulling off the roadway wasn't going to change the outcome..
If there is a cop behind me, I pull into a parking lot or side road at my first opportunity. It forces their hand.The
I’ve had local cops run my plate (Veteran on a Black 2015 Taurus) and stay on my driver side rear quarter and pace me, speed limit being 40 mph for a couple of miles . He must of had a boring day.
Good plan.
A cop once told me: If I follow you for 5 minutes without finding an excuse to stop you, you are Jesus Christ.
Me too.
Wise words. Took me 5 yeas to figure it out.
Back in the day when traffic cops were human, my rule of thumb was that they might check you out but it would require two infractions before they would issue a ticket:
speeding counted as one;
a driver error, such as failing to signal, while speeding would count as a second - or if you were unlucky it could be something as basic as the cop getting out of the wrong side of the bed that morning, that was a chance you had to accept.
But it never let me down.