Welcome to Targeted Enforcement Day!

[Nachodaddy]

We just bought a new Honda Accord Hybrid and the dealer put dark window film on all the windows. I was surprised, as I remember, back in the 80s, California Highway Patrol stopped cars with out-of-state license plates and warned them that darkened front windows was illegal in California. In Arizona, I see very little enforcement of much of anything on the roads. They do seem to get a little interested when drivers start exchanging gunfire.

[GoldOxide_imp]

We just bought a new Honda Accord Hybrid and the dealer put dark window film on all the windows. I was surprised, as I remember, back in the 80s, California Highway Patrol stopped cars with out-of-state license plates and warned them that darkened front windows was illegal in California. In Arizona, I see very little enforcement of much of anything on the roads. They do seem to get a little interested when drivers start exchanging gunfire.

... "no fear" behind a curtain.

Police risks are not fun.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

I had a friend who lived in Riverside, CA and worked in the South Bay, near Redondo. He and his son both worked for a company that provided them a dual-cab pickup with a back seat. One of the HOV lines in SoCal required three occupants of the vehicle, so they made up a dummy from a wig stand, put a baseball cap on it, really big dark sunglasses and a huge fake beard, and propped it up in the rear seat. All the booth camera could see was a vague shape in the back seat, but they never got busted as far as I know.

[Randy B]

We just bought a new Honda Accord Hybrid and the dealer put dark window film on all the windows. I was surprised, as I remember, back in the 80s, California Highway Patrol stopped cars with out-of-state license plates and warned them that darkened front windows was illegal in California. In Arizona, I see very little enforcement of much of anything on the roads. They do seem to get a little interested when drivers start exchanging gunfire.

This is illegal. A state can't enforce their vehicle codes on out of state vehicles. If they could a ton of people would be getting tickets for no front license plate. 31 states require both front and rear license plates, while the remaining 19 only require a rear plate.

[Nachodaddy]

We just bought a new Honda Accord Hybrid and the dealer put dark window film on all the windows. I was surprised, as I remember, back in the 80s, California Highway Patrol stopped cars with out-of-state license plates and warned them that darkened front windows was illegal in California. In Arizona, I see very little enforcement of much of anything on the roads. They do seem to get a little interested when drivers start exchanging gunfire.

This is illegal. A state can't enforce their vehicle codes on out of state vehicles. If they could a ton of people would be getting tickets for no front license plate. 31 states require both front and rear license plates, while the remaining 19 only require a rear plate.

This is illegal. A state can't enforce their vehicle codes on out of state vehicles. If they could a ton of people would be getting tickets for no front license plate. 31 states require both front and rear license plates, while the remaining 19 only require a rear plate. Randy, you are right in that they couldn't ticket drivers and they didn't. But they did stop them and let them know that if they planned to stay in California, they had to remove the film. At a car show in Buellton, I met a guy with a beautiful custom rod that had dark front windows. He explained that (at that time) you could have them dark as long as it wasn't a film. So he had the glass tinted. More expensive, but so was his car.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

The cop and the pick-up are in an emergency lane, not the HOV lane. It's very dangerous to travel in the emergency lane, which is reserved for first responders. I would bet that the ticket would be very expensive, and then there are all the added fees, which nearly doubles the fine.

[Gone in 60]

They're not travelling in the emergency lane, Charlie, the CHP car stopped the violating truck and pulled him over to the emergency lane to hand him a ticket. It's standard procedure to do that on this part of the freeway, rathter than the violator and the cop fighting four lanes of gridlocked traffic to the right to get to the opposite shoulder. Pull them to the left, hand a ticket, and go hunting for the next guy. They were out hunting again on Monday morning.

It's funny, a few miles south of this area, they are doing a freeway widening project, and the lanes shift over to the left, putting the car pool lane up against the concrete barrier. Car pool violators know that there's no good way for CHP to patrol that area, so they jump in the HOV lane down in that section.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

Thanks for the clarification, Gone.