PUCKER wrote:My experience from multiple traffic stops (30+) in my younger/dumber/leadfoot years...if it was a TX DPS Trooper they usually asked me to step out of the vehicle...other agencies rarely did this from what I recall. When I'm cruising down the road and I see a TX DPS Trooper with someone pulled over I see the driver out of the vehicle quite often.
My experience is the same. I've never had a local officer ask me to exit, but only once where a trooper did not ask me to step out.
Protip: be very careful when driving a red convertible with loud exhaust.
Looking back in my memory files, I did have a Grapevine motorjock request that I exit the vehicle during a traffic stop...I think the reason was because I had my CHL but it was not *on* me...it was in the center console...I think I recall asking the office "why?" one my way out of the vehicle and he said "for your safety and mine" (uh huh)...I was wearing a suit, middle of August, on the way to a business event...it was HOTTTTTTT....I had just got all nice and clean, fresh suit, etc. and now I was sweating profusely...I was pulled over for speeding on a road close to my house....got the ticket. I think he saw a guy in a nice suit, nice vehicle and he was looking for someone to share his misery (you know, motorjock outfit in 100+ degrees....sweat city!).
jordanmills wrote:
PUCKER wrote:My experience from multiple traffic stops (30+) in my younger/dumber/leadfoot years...if it was a TX DPS Trooper they usually asked me to step out of the vehicle...other agencies rarely did this from what I recall. When I'm cruising down the road and I see a TX DPS Trooper with someone pulled over I see the driver out of the vehicle quite often.
My experience is the same. I've never had a local officer ask me to exit, but only once where a trooper did not ask me to step out.
Protip: be very careful when driving a red convertible with loud exhaust.
All of those make sense for the different scenarios. The one that puzzles me is I got pulled over in Arkansas in 95 one time for a "bad sticker" (in 95, Texas moved the reg. sticker to the windshield instead of the rear plate, so my TX plate sticker still said 94.) The officer (still seated in the driver's seat) announced on his PA that he wanted me to get out of my truck. I walked back to the shoulder, and he snapped his fingers and pointed at his passenger seat (like you might do to a little kid in trouble.) I walked around and climbed in, and he asked if I had been drinking (it was 8:00 AM and I was on my way to my grandparent's house in W.Va. with my dad.) I said, "heh, nope, just orange juice from the IHOP at the last exit" and he called me a smart alec and asked where I was going, why my sticker was out, etc. I explained the sticker moving to the windshield thing and he again called me a smart alec, stating that he knew the stickers in TX had changed, but his computer said my reg. was out. (None of this was in a "smart" tone, I was truly trying to be helpful/friendly) He said he thought I was drinking because I "swerved" to get to the shoulder once he lit me up. Anyway, once my license check came back OK, he let me go, but to this day, it strikes be as a really bad idea to have me in his passenger seat. If I were a bad guy, I was on his strong side, and once I rotated, my strong hand would have been free, etc.
hotrodscott wrote:All of those make sense for the different scenarios. The one that puzzles me is I got pulled over in Arkansas in 95 one time for a "bad sticker" (in 95, Texas moved the reg. sticker to the windshield instead of the rear plate, so my TX plate sticker still said 94.) The officer (still seated in the driver's seat) announced on his PA that he wanted me to get out of my truck. I walked back to the shoulder, and he snapped his fingers and pointed at his passenger seat (like you might do to a little kid in trouble.) I walked around and climbed in, and he asked if I had been drinking (it was 8:00 AM and I was on my way to my grandparent's house in W.Va. with my dad.) I said, "heh, nope, just orange juice from the IHOP at the last exit" and he called me a smart alec and asked where I was going, why my sticker was out, etc. I explained the sticker moving to the windshield thing and he again called me a smart alec, stating that he knew the stickers in TX had changed, but his computer said my reg. was out. (None of this was in a "smart" tone, I was truly trying to be helpful/friendly) He said he thought I was drinking because I "swerved" to get to the shoulder once he lit me up. Anyway, once my license check came back OK, he let me go, but to this day, it strikes be as a really bad idea to have me in his passenger seat. If I were a bad guy, I was on his strong side, and once I rotated, my strong hand would have been free, etc.
Yeah that's old school. I think most guys have moved away from this, but you still hear about it once in a while...In my experience mostly with troops.
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