[police siren]
Well, look who's here.
Hi. Oh, oh.
Oh, yeah, you're on mic two. Sorry.
I'm over here.
I got in the habit of using, uh, mic three for everybody as of late, 'cause that- that mic was being really weird for a while. So, I- I don't know. I guess you got the magic touch over there.
Missed me, missed me.
Like, yeah, thanks for not showing up last week.
[laughs] That's what I'm best at, is not being there.
Huh? No call, no show.
Yes.
I mean, you did give me a warning you likely wouldn't show.
I'm like, "I have had it." [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, it looked like you were having a rough time there.
Oh, just horrible.
Just relaxing.
On the river, just enjoying life.
Yeah, yeah. Hanging out in that nice, warm camper.
Enjoying life with a beautiful wife and nice weather and good food. How about that?
Ah, and I'm sitting in here-
[laughs] Yeah
... telling my peaches-
[laughs]
Oh, by the way, could you do me a favor? [laughs]
Tell peaches what up.
What up. [laughs]
Uh, peaches, I didn't catch the caller's name. I forgot, but he says, "What's up?"
[laughs]
And you listeners who are tuned in right now, you know what time it is. It's time to get ready for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. Anything interesting happen in the last two weeks that you need to let the community know about?
Man, I'll tell you what. I just got back, uh, yesterday. Had a meeting with ITD and the general contractors that do a lot of the construction around the area. Great meeting. Talked about, "What frustrates Victor Wilt?" [laughs]
[laughs] Thank you, finally.
[laughs]
Finally. I have so many complaints.
They said, "We're gonna do it for a day." I said, "I need a week." [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, that's not one meeting.
[laughs]
I- I've got a long list. Well, we've got a caller. I know we haven't officially kicked off the show, but we- we can see what they want. K-Bear, you're live on the, uh, pre-show for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Hey, it's us.
Oh, been a while since we heard from this guy.
Oh, man.
Mr. My Vote Doesn't Matter, Crazy Jay.
[laughs]
[laughs] Crazy Jay said he didn't vote in the local elections 'cause he didn't feel like his vote mattered.
Well, now, Jay, that's not- that's not the Jay I know.
Yeah, come on, Crazy Jay. I've explained this many times. It's the presidential election that your vote doesn't matter in Idaho.
[laughs]
The local elections can go multiple ways.
I think-
I don't really care about you and Victor. [laughs]
... you're an idiot.
So what up, dude?
Nothing much. I'm gonna say, congratulations, you're still alive.
Congratulations that I'm still alive? Well, thank you, Jay. I did, uh, have a little bit of a fear earlier in the week when I had a nightmare that wouldn't end, that I was in a coma.
Oh, jeez. [laughs]
[laughs] I knew I was dreaming, and I'm like, "Can I wake up? Can I wake up now? No."
[laughs]
I'm like, "Please, please- let me wake up. I know this is a dream."
[laughs]
"No, I'm in a coma. This is what it's gonna be like forever. Ahh!" [laughs]
That's your future when you're 80.
Yeah, I had a- I had a rough, uh, Mental Monday.
Geez.
[laughs]
Oh, gosh.
Well, I'm glad you're so-
I've been in a coma. I've been in a coma, and- and it basically was like the dream.
Good sleeping, though, right?
No, it's not sleeping at all.
[laughs]
Never rest.
[laughs] Just a never-ending nightmare, huh?
Yes. [laughs]
See? That's what it felt like. And it, I'm like, "Why can't I wake up? This sucks."
[laughs]
"This is terrible." So I'm, yeah, I'm glad I'm alive. Glad you're alive as well, Jay.
All right, good.
[laughs]
[laughs] That is good. So...
[laughs]
Any, uh, questions or anything, or did you just call to say hi and that you're glad we're alive?
Uh, I did that, but, uh, is there any place that won't put, lock me up and throw away the key-
[laughs]
... for being crazy?
[laughs]
Okay.
Well, so far, East Idaho apparently doesn't care.
Yeah.
You're still here.
[laughs] All righty. Well, everyone have a good day.
All right, you as well, Jay. Talk to you later.
All right.
Get out and vote.
All right.
[laughs]
Get out and vote is right.
[laughs]
We got the, uh, runoff election coming up on the 2nd.
Yeah.
And, uh, early voting started yesterday. Uh, Josh from class, he told me on lunch, he went and voted, took him five minutes.
Geez.
You just pop over to the local elections office, and bam, get her done. So, I might have to do that today so I don't have to, you know, wait in those long lines with the great turnout we have on [laughs]-
[laughs]
... Election Day around here. Please turn out to the runoff election. Everybody votes in the presidential election. I'm like, "What are you guys doing?" [laughs]
[laughs]
You know where the electoral votes are gonna go. [laughs] All right, sorry. I'm- I'm a negative Nancy when it comes to that.
I was gonna say. [laughs]
[laughs]
I wanted to get along all day today before I left.
All right, all right. We'll- we'll tone it down.
[laughs]
We'll tone it down. Hey, I was gonna ask you, have you ever been in a room-
Where I voted? Yeah. [laughs]
Okay. But a room full of a lot of people, and they're all hanging out together. We won't get into what. But as- as there's somebody speaking, and they get done with the point, the entire room, instead of a round of applause, just goes... [claps once] And then the guy keeps talking again, makes a point. [claps once] Single clap. Have you ever seen this happen in your life?
[laughs]
Freaking weird.
[laughs]
That's all I got to say.
Was you somewhere giving a talk?
Uh, no.
[laughs]
No, but I- I've got insiders sometimes that, uh, you know, will fill me in on what's going on in meetings and things.
You got people at the top?
Yeah, people at the top, middle, and the bottom.
[laughs]
All over the place.
Most of my friends are in the bottom.
You know, and I'll get these videos, and I'm like, "What's going on there?"... you guys are weird.
[laughs]
[laughs] Bunch of weirdos. Okay, let's... Hold on, let's take one more call. KBUR, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Yo!
Hello?
Hi. Uh, what's up?
Hey, yeah, I was just listening to the Victor Cray show.
Hold on, we can't understand you.
He was ♫ listening to the Victor Cray show. ♫
[laughs] Can, can you, uh, take us off of Bluetooth, or do something to... ?
Yeah, I know, I know, I'm live.
We... You, you gotta fix your phone, man.
He knows what the problem is, Victor. Leave him alone [laughs].
Hold on.
Uh, uh-
I got this llama in front of my face. Llama-
I'm impatient.
... actual, um-
[laughs]
I am severely lacking in patience. I've been drinking an energy drink.
Hold on.
[laughs]
He's ... Get ... tripping down. It's heavy, man. [laughs]
I would have fixed this problem much quicker! [laughs] And then I'd be taking a break.
Hey, but, uh, well, we're all here.
You know what? You have our love, almost all the time.
All right, buddy. [laughs]
Rocking hard, rocking still.
That's right. We are rocking-
Yeah
... hard. I, I did manage to catch that.
Oh. Well, well, see, I, I can't even
Hey! Hey! I think you said a naughty word!
... I don't wanna ...
[laughs]
I think you said a naughty word! All right?
I don't want to internet now. Oh.
Yeah. All right. Here-
What, what kind of people are you attracting this way? [laughs]
I don't know! [laughs] I don't know!
Where
I give him the single clap. [claps]
[laughs]
All right, dude.
Hey, I think you
... need to
... started
You're, you're gonna have to call us back.
It took one month.
Have you ever argued with Charlie Brown's parents?
You can't, you can't make fun of them. [laughs]
[laughs]
You're gonna have to try us back after you fix your phone. [laughs]
[laughs]
[imitates Charlie Brown walking]
[laughs] That was an adult from Charlie Brown.
Uh, speaking of Charlie Brown, uh, is the song Linus and Lucy a Christmas song? Do you know what song I'm talking about? Let me, uh, play it for you real quick.
I'm glad you have it, too.
This is an important question for Traffic School. All right. Listen to this and tell me if this is a Christmas song. [instrumental music playing]
Oh. It's a Thanksgiving song.
A Thanksgiving song! 'Cause the original place that this song showed up was in the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.
Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Charlie Brown, kick the football! [laughs]
That's right! [laughs]
[laughs]
It's been an ongoing debate, 'cause every Christmas radio station plays that song. It doesn't have a lick of Christmas to it.
[laughs]
There is nothing Christmas about it. All right? [laughs]
[laughs] Oh, all right, I won't play it on my program.
We heard it from East Idaho's main authority on the law-
Yes
... and Christmas. It's a Thanksgiving song, if anything.
Come on, Peaches, kick that ball.
Kick that ball, Peaches! [laughs]
[laughs] [upbeat music playing]
That's right, we're taking your questions on the law. 208-535-1015 is the number to call, and we've even got somebody on hold ready to go. Let's go to the phones here. KBUR, you are live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
It's Alexis.
Alexis! What's your question for the program?
I have a three-part question.
Oh, my!
The first one is, what is...
Okay, I'll be back.
What is-
He's doing great.
We gotta pick him in that long? [laughs]
[laughs] Give me a notepad pen.
Hey, I got in a f- I got in a fight with someone in the Life in Idaho Falls page, so I have to clarify.
Of course he got in a fight with somebody in the Life in Idaho Falls page 'cause there's a lot of know-it-alls in there.
[laughs]
One of those is named Victor.
[laughs] Sometimes.
All right, so my first question is, what is the law for pulling over for emergency veh- vehicles when there are four plus lanes?
Oh, that's a good question. If they're going the, uh, opposite direction and you're in the, uh, far-right lane, you can continue travel, but if you're in the middle, you need to, to move over. And especially if they're running in the, uh, inside lane.
Okay. And then, the second question is, what is the law for stopping for buses in four plus lanes?
Ooh, you don't have to do that.
And then, the last one is, what is the law for passing a funeral procession?
Uh, on the, like, usually... Are we talking, like, on a two-lane road?
Uh, either way or on a highway.
Yeah, you're not supposed to interrupt a funeral possession- procession.
What if it, what if it's four lanes-
Yeah
... and you're on the, uh, the opposite direction?
Yeah, yeah, and you can go. Uh, just, you know what? I would say this. Are you really in that big a hurry, or you can... Can you show a, just a touch of respect for those that have passed?
It depends how many cars they have.
That's what I thought, too. [laughs]
[laughs] Depends on how popular they were!
Exactly. You gotta look at the obituaries for that day-
[laughs]
... which service it is.
Someone tried-
"Ah, didn't like that guy!" [laughs]
Someone tried telling me that there is no law for funeral processions, so I just wanted to double check.
Oh, no, there's laws about it, and you can't... You definitely can't cut through 'em or, or, uh, interrupt the flow of a funeral procession. So, yeah.
But if you're on a four l- a, a four-lane road-
Yeah, you could pass
... you know, you could... and you're going the opposite direction-
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah. Uh, if it's a two-lane, actually, the respectful thing to do, and we wouldn't want you to do this, is to pull over and give 'em the right of way, right? But if you're on a two-lane, you're going opposite direction, you can s- continue to go, but don't interrupt their flow.
Gotcha. Okay, perfect. Thank you so much.
All right. And to clarify, school buses on a four lane, if you're in the, i- like, uh, either of the two opposite lanes, you don't have to stop, or just the far right lane?
Uh, if you are traveling the other direction, you don't have to stop.
Okay.
The opposite direction, yep.
Gotcha. All right, thanks, Alexis.
Thank you, bye.
Yep. 208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. See if we got any, uh, questions online here. Um, okay, we've talked about this a lot of times, but, uh, on and off ramp etiquette. They're asking, if you're having vehicle issues or just need to check on the load you're moving, can you park on the side of the on and off ramps?
Oh, you can stop there, yeah. You need to be off the fog line. Now what happens there is if you leave the vehicle, this is a great topic to talk about. If you're gonna leave the vehicle, you need to contact our dispatch, which is *477 or, or *ISP. Need to let 'em know...... what's going on, why the vehicle is there. A contact number for the vehicle so that if, for whatever reason, it becomes an immediate hazard, we can call you and have you move it sooner than later because if not, we're gonna tow it. Now, if it's off the white line, but tires are still on the pavement, even just one tire, we'll tow it at dark. If it's off the pavement completely into the dirt, you get 48 hours.
Okay. Well, there you go-
But yeah, just be-
... Kirsten.
Yeah, be cautious though when you're there that, w- when you're walking outside on the traffic side that you don't walk into some traffic.
Hey there. You are live on Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Hey, it's Zach. How's it going?
Zach, great. What's up, man?
Hey, so uh, just to clarify that bus thing he just said, I could've sworn it was any roadway. You see them stop signs come out, you stop.
If there's three or more lanes of travel so if you're ... L- let's say we're on Highway 26, uh,
and you're going the opposite direction, y- you're not required to stop by law.
So that's specifically highways or say 17th Street where there's four lanes?
Uh, four lanes on 17th Street you can still go the opposite direction.
That's crazy, but all right.
They, they should not be allowing the kids to cross, that's the whole point.
Yeah.
Is that there's that many lanes, they're not letting the kids cross.
Gotcha.
Yep, they're getting-
All right
... they're-
That's good
... they're unloading 'em to the curbside which the kids are living on.
Gotcha. Well, I appreciate it guys.
Hey, thanks Zach. You have a good one, man.
You too, bye-bye.
Bye. 208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Those of you who are calling, uh, feel free to call back 'cause we can only do one at a time.
Or just keep ticking Victor off. [laughs]
Just, you don't wanna make me mad!
[laughs]
Don't wanna make me mad! All right, let's see. I have-
I have a question for you.
Oh, well, I have the answers.
[laughs] I hope you do. I just noticed, and I don't know if it's because you like it or because it was really a good job, or why this is the case but I, I need to know the answer. I notice your fingernail polish is still hanging-
Oh
... in there pretty dang good.
Uh, yeah, it's called laziness.
Okay. Well-
Yeah
... because my wife, uh, her fingernails don't stay nice like that forever. It seems like she's always, "I gotta go get my fingernails done."
I don't know, I don't think you looked at 'em up close.
Wha- how can you, how can you pull that off?
[laughs]
[laughs] No work?
B- but yeah, I guess that's pretty much it.
[laughs]
I have a desk job and I sit here, and my keyboard is very, very, uh, delicate. So yeah.
But-
No, I'm just lazy. I don't, I don't wanna get out the fingernail polish remover and the, you know, you gotta find like a cotton swab and-
So the direction I need to give my wife is just don't do anything, [laughs] your fingernail polish will last forever.
Well, she's probably more particular. Like, if you actually look at it, it's all chipped and crappy looking.
That looks like it's been smashed with a sledgehammer.
[laughs]
Not fat thumb. [laughs]
Exactly. [laughs] Yeah, i- i- it's just laziness. And uh, yeah, then I get people looking at me weird too which is fun.
[laughs]
You know?
That doesn't think fingernail polish [laughs]...
Yeah, roll into the biker bar, people are like, "Mm." [laughs]
[laughs]
I just like to be weird, you know?
You w- you roll into the biker bar and they're like, "What are you doing in town?"
[laughs]
And your answer is, "I'm a logger." [laughs]
[laughs] Can't you tell? I work hard. Look at these hands.
[laughs]
208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. Oh, I swear I had something else that I was gonna ask you about myself.
I'm a logger, I drive a Honda. [laughs]
Yeah, I, I don't know where that tab went. Dang it! All right, I guess we'll do a caller instead.
[laughs]
Hey there, you're Live on Traffic School powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. Uh, who's this?
Uh, this is, uh, Ral Duke.
Well-
I have my attorney with me, and I realize his name is not on that list. We must have heard him on the radio. What's the score here?
[laughs].
Thanks.
All right Ral Duke, um.
It's Brandon. [laughs]
[laughs] All right, what's up dude? [laughs]
All right. [singing] The question I have for you today. Uh, so this guy-
He's gonna sing through a s-
Two seconds.
... my delivery route. This guy might deliver out, and he has this really long driveway. And he caught me doing 20 miles per hour in his driveway. He actually rolled up on a four-wheeler and made me stop. And he told me that speed limit for his driveway is 10 miles per hour. There's no signage, but if he caught me going faster than 10 again, could he like actually enforce that? Could he call the police and actually have them come out and give me a ticket in the middle of nowhere?
I, I, I'm is this? Who is this guy?
He's one of my customers on the delivery route. He's an old Texan guy.
Oh, and he's got his private driveway marked at 10 miles an hour?
It's not marked, no. He verbally told me it's 10 miles an hour.
Yeah. We don't, we wouldn't enforce that on private property.
Oh, thank goodness. [laughs]
[laughs] But there are worse things like lumps on top of your head. [laughs]
Yeah, I was gonna say uh-
[laughs]
... you know, some of these guys who live out in the sticks with these long driveways might come out blasting or something.
[laughs]
And you gotta be careful.
Yeah, that's probably, that's probably the bigger worry. [laughs]
You might get some Texas justice. [laughs]
[laughs]
So yeah, I wish I could set just speed limits wherever I want.
[laughs]
See some idiots driving around my neighborhood sometimes like, "What are you doing? There's children!"
[laughs]
"How are you doing five miles an hour in this cul-de-sac?" [laughs]
[laughs] How is it to be so rich you live in a cul-de-sac?
Oh, geez. [laughs]
[laughs]
How big's your backyard, buddy? [laughs]
[laughs]
I just have my own dirt bike track. It's not that big. [laughs]
[laughs]
Oh, well, uh, Brandon, appreciate the call today man and I'll be-
And slow down! [laughs]
That's right, quit driving like a jerk. [laughs]
Yeah, no problem.
I'll keep using different voices until I run out of voices. I probably have at least 500 of them.
Yeah, I- I don't think Lieutenant Crane was familiar with, yeah, who, who you were impersonating.... Raoul Duke?
Yeah, [laughs].
No. Never seen-
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
[laughs]
I thought that was your favorite movie.
Yeah, I'll have to sit down a- and binge-watch it tonight [laughs].
[laughs] I would love to hear the reaction of you and your wife watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That would be amazing.
Is it a Netflix special?
Uh, it might be on Netflix. I, I think I saw it pop up on, uh, some streaming service, you know?
Or is it one of those you have to call and pay for? [laughs]
[laughs]
It's a classic. It's a classic.
Good country. Bad country.
There are police in it at times. I think you'd enjoy it.
Even when the doors get kicked in [laughs].
[laughs]
Well, appreciate the call, man. Hope you have a great weekend.
Oh, you as well.
Right on, peace.
Peace.
Didn't you people hear me? 208-535-1015's the number to call for Traffic School. Call us now, do it! All right, uh, Lieutenant Crane, I was reading an article earlier where, uh, I don't know exactly where this was at, but, uh, the county had to pay a guy $80,000 after he was arrested for recording a deputy, and the... 'Cause the deputy, I guess, was mad. He was like-
[laughs]
... "Don't film me!" And they took him to jail for it. Um, you, you can film the police, right?
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
I mean, I like to do it all the time.
Now, when, when it becomes obnoxious is if we tell you, "Hey, you need to put your phone down," and because we're doing sobriety tests or whatever. At that point you need to, but if you're just a bystander watching and you're not in the way and you're not interrupting the, the traffic stop or the business being conducted, you can film.
Yeah, you could still set your phone down-
Yeah
... and keep recording-
Yeah
... while you're stumbling around in the road, right? [laughs]
[laughs]
K-Bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by the Advocate's Injury Attorneys. Who's this?
This is Tyler.
Tyler, what's up, man?
Hey, I just had a question regarding, um, bridge weights, like, regarding commercial vehicles.
Hey, real quick, Tyler-
If there was an-
... I don't know if this is the right program for you. You seem like the only caller that's really had it together today.
[laughs]
You may have called the wrong program.
Glad to be the first.
Tell your boss you need a raise. [laughs]
[laughs] Well, uh, I got a route up in Salmon, Idaho, and it, it, uh, criss-crosses a lot of bridge sometimes, but, uh,
yeah, so I, I was just wondering, like, if, if there isn't a posted weight limit on a bridge, is there, like, a minimum threshold that you could expect, uh, to travel over with or is it just best to avoid that if you've got a commercial vehicle?
Are we talking personal bridges or, uh, county,
s- state bridges?
I'd say county, I would, I would assume.
Okay, county bridges. If they're not marked, they are, um, designated to hold whatever weight necessary to get the motoring public across that bridge. Now, the only time I would become concerned about that in your commercial vehicle is if you're oversized or overweight.
Okay.
For whatever vehicle you may be, right?
Right, okay.
Okay. And, and we're talking about, like, bobtail trucks, if they're overweight. A 20... I'd say it's a 26,000 pound truck but it's only got, uh, two axles, you would, we'd wanna be concerned 'cause all the weight's dispersed right there. If it's spread out over more axles, you're gonna be fine. But if you're overweight for whatever you're pulling, that's when you're gonna wanna be concerned and then get a special-
Okay
... permit to get across it.
All righty, appreciate that. Thank you.
Hey, thanks for, uh, being concerned, [laughs] man. You know?
[laughs]
Most people don't think about these things. I actually looked at a website one time that was talking about, uh, bridge infrastructure and how many bridges around the country are just, uh, n- not good. [laughs] Um-
What were you looking for that you stumbled across this? [laughs]
I, I don't kn- I get in the weird internet rabbit hole sometimes, I'm like, "We're gonna have bridge collapses everywhere!"
[laughs]
"The bridges are fa- Oh, help!"
[laughs]
I get kinda concerned sometimes.
Yeah, I just don't want it to be one of those things where if I'm right, I'm okay, if I'm wrong, I'm going for a dip, you know? Just-
Yeah, exactly right.
Well, there you go, man.
All right, well, appreciate you guys.
Hey, have a good one.
You too.
K-Bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by the Advocate's Injury Attorneys. Who's this?
This is Tyson.
Tyson, would you turn down your radio, please?
I like how you ended that, "Please."
Please.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Turn down the radio, Tyson.
[laughs] Like you're Elvis Presley.
Yeah, this is it.
[laughs] Did you know Elvis didn't write a single song?
He sure sang some. [laughs]
He sang a crap load. Sang a crap load of songs, didn't write a lick of 'em.
[laughs]
[laughs] He was just... "Make this voice and write me the lyrics."
[laughs]
[laughs] Okay, sorry, Tyson. Go ahead.
Yeah, so a question for Officer Crane. So, the other day, we have a neighbor cop that lives by us, and we went-
Oh. Brought down the property values, didn't it? [laughs]
[laughs]
Hate it when that happens. [laughs]
Well,
it was, it was just... I just, I just wanna know from a cop's perspective, if somebody came to your door, would you... How would you answer it? How would you answer your front door? This cop was peeking through the blinds and then he opened the door, like, halfway and left the screen open or shut. He didn't even open his door all the way and it was just really weird.
Now, I like when Victor come to my house. It was just all hugs and kisses. [laughs]
[laughs] Now, are you, are you a neighbor that might look like me? You know? [laughs]
[laughs]
I think it might, your appearance might determine how they answer the door.
But that's, that's all I had. I was just wondering how, if most cops answer the door skittish, I guess.
You know, uh, there's a reason to be, uh, cautious, and, uh, so, yeah, I don't blame 'em if they're being a little cautious, but also be human.
And I was gonna ask you, why were you just-
Right
... knocking on the cop's door?
[laughs] Knocking-
We were wondering-
So we were gonna have him do a VIN ins- inspection on a vehicle that we had.
Uh, yeah, I went to my brain surgeon's house and knocked on his door. [laughs]
[laughs] He's like, "I'm trying to relax."
[laughs]
"Call the police department, 'cause I'm, I'm sitting back watching Cops on TV."
Uh, you know, that's funny, 'cause I, I get a lot of calls at home reference law enforcement stuff, and VIN inspections and stuff like that. And I, I, I don't... I'm not opposed to doing 'em, I don't mind doing 'em. But then I'm thinking, when I need to ask a question on a mechanic question or something like that, a mechanic's running, I'm thinking, "Gosh, do I call him when he's not at work?" [laughs] You know?
Yeah, I mean, I've never called you when you're not working with a law-related question.
[laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, it seemed to bother you a lot. [laughs]
Hey, feel free to call me with radio questions anytime. [laughs] I don't mind. Sure, I'll get that request on for you tomorrow. Thanks for your call, buddy. [laughs]
Yeah, thanks.
Oh. Well, have- have a good one, man. Oh, y- he did the job for me, thanks. Uh, KBAR, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is John.
John, what's up, man?
Hey, um, so I was gonna ask, uh, Lieutenant Crane about, uh, a few weeks ago he mentioned something about the passing lanes on a highway, and how you can go 15 over-
Speeding?
Yeah, 15 over the speed limit, uh, when you're passing somebody in the passing lane.
Yeah, but-
And I was curious... Oh, go ahead?
No, go ahead and ask your question.
Um, so I was curious, like, uh, so Highway 39 running between Blackfoot, Aberdeen. Uh, there's a small town, Riverside, and it splits from a two-lane high- uh, two lanes to four lanes. Um, does that count as a passing lane or is that something different because it's going through a town?
Uh, that's going through a town. So, when you're in a speed limit zone of the city, which is 35, you can't jump out and do 50 to pass.
[laughs] Yeah.
Yeah, it's only designed for out of, uh, uh, out of town areas. And then it's designed, if it's a two lane that you can pass when passing's legal, up to 15 miles an hour over the speed limit until you get back in your lane, and then you gotta go back down. The key to this is the vehicle in front of you has to be doing under the speed limit. So, if the speed limit's 65 and they're doing 64, you can do it. If they're doing 65, you can't. Now, what they added and what the confusion is this year is if there's a passing lane, like going out to Swan Valley, and there's a passing lane, now you can jump out in that passing lane also and go up to 15 miles an hour over to get in.
Okay.
Yeah, and that's a... Those are designated passing lanes-
Passing lanes
... where it's like, "Passing lane ahead," blah, blah, blah. Yeah.
Yep.
But yeah.
Okay.
I, I think that's a great idea to put 'em downtown. [laughs]
[laughs]
But don't do them yet. Especially when you're out near those small towns. You wanna get through 'em as fast as possible. Only weirdos live in small towns. [laughs]
Oh. Hey, d- do, do you live out there, sir?
Oh yeah.
[laughs]
Do y- do you realize in '96 that was a crime-free area?
Didn't.
Yeah, back in '96 I was a resident trooper out there. [laughs]
[laughs] Nobody messed around when the mountain was in town.
[laughs] I was in Rockland.
[laughs]
[laughs] Rockford, Rockland, Aberdeen.
So y- it used to be crime free?
Y- oh, I teased the sheriff when I left. I said, "Hey, you're gonna have to hang some banners on both these overpasses on I-86 saying that this is a crime free area." [laughs]
[laughs]
Well, it makes sense. I mean, it seems like the last few years it's, uh, the population has doubled or tripled it seems like.
Oh, yes. Yeah.
So... But it was a great area, loved it out there.
Yeah.
Matter of fact, I, we lived at, uh, Indian Springs.
Oh, really?
Yeah. Above the, above the swimming pool there's a three bedroom, uh, two bath, uh, apartment up there. Or, I- just one bath. Three bedroom, one bath.
And you'd just sit there and watch the teenagers and be like, "You better be behaving down there. I see you drinking those beers."
[laughs]
Uh, you know what was nice? Worked night shift, and our, our apartment had access straight to the pool. So you'd come home 2:30 in the morning, sun, uh, uh, summer night, go down, swim for a little bit, come back up, and go to bed.
Dang, that's not too shabby.
It was awesome.
Nice.
Nice. Well, man, appreciate the call, and, uh, hope you have a great weekend.
Yeah. Y'all have a good day.
Hey, you too, man. Peace.
Bye.
All right, everybody, 208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. See if any additional questions have popped up on the old socials here.
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[laughs]
I'm, I'm out of ideas. 208-535-1015. [laughs]
[laughs] That's a first.
Okay, well, maybe we can talk about this. Treasure hunting. I was talking about treasure hunting earlier on the show, 'cause I guess in England people are finding record amounts of treasure out with, like, metal detectors and things like that. Let's say you go out and you're... I w- I, I was talking about, like, the old mines and things up near, like, Stanley. You got your metal detector out and you're farting around, and you find some gold. Are you able to keep it?
Uh, if it's open to the public, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I would say yes. Now, if it's marked private property, you shouldn't be on it in the first place. [laughs]
[laughs] Okay, that makes sense. [laughs]
There's still people that go up to Salmon and, and, uh, pan for gold on a regular basis.
Oh yeah, yeah.
It's, yeah...
And, uh, I- I've thought about doing it, 'cause I need the money. [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, I don't see, I don't see any of these guys getting rich. [laughs]
No? [laughs] The gold dredge took it all, dang it. Yeah, uh, I- I would assume you've been up to the old gold dredge before.
I have, yeah.
I was talking about that earlier. What a weird drive that is. You know? Like, man, it's just like devastation.... and then you get to the Gold Dredge and it's a museum. [laughs]
[laughs]
It's a weird area. It's fun to four-wheel up there, though-
Yeah
... 'cause there's like l- you know, the old ghost towns and, you know, once you get really high up in the hills, like I said, find the old mines. I mean, you shouldn't go in an old mine or anything like that, but-
Common sense would tell ya-
... it's amazing how much junk people just leave behind.
[laughs]
You know? [laughs] Like the Gold Dredge itself-
[laughs]
... they just parked it there and left it. [laughs]
[laughs] You know what he said? "Hey, Jimmy? This is our last day. It's fine. Let's go to the bar."
[laughs]
Exactly. [laughs] Uh, K-Bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Uh, this is Albert.
Albert, what's up, man?
Hey, so I was curious about all the rules of, like, a two-lane roundabout.
How dare you?
[laughs]
That's all I gotta say.
You wanna go over all the rules? [laughs]
[laughs]
So-
Yeah. T-
... if properly marked... Now we got a couple of different ones, right, that are both two lanes. If properly marked, you can go from, let's say the outside lane, we'll call it the outside lane, closest to the curb. If you're going into that, you can not only turn off on that first exit, but you can go around to the second exit on some of those if marked properly. Some of them-
Okay
... you can only go to the first exit, depending on how it's marked. Them, those, um, roundabouts-
Yeah
... if you wanna go past the first one, you gotta be on the inside lane, furthest from the curb, and then you can go around as many times as you want until you run out of fuel.
[laughs]
And they generally have their markings on the ground-
And on the sign
... a- and, and signs that-
Yep
... you know, will show you the, the, the traffic pattern.
And believe me, you do not have to stop to check traffic.
That's right.
If it's open, go.
Exactly.
Yeah!
I was driving down South Boulevard recently. They got that roundabout there-
Yep
... by the gas station. And you wouldn't believe these idiots!
[laughs]
[laughs] Like, there's no one in sight, go!
I don't know why it is, but if you're in a marked black and white car, you pull ... Everybody thinks they gotta stop. [laughs]
[laughs]
Go into-
Get going. [laughs]
[laughs]
It's your fault, then. We figured it out. You and your buddies slowing down the traffic flow at a roundabout. Cops are no longer allow- allowed to patrol roundabouts.
Roundabouts. And you know what? We'd probably get approval through the legislature to get more employees if it wouldn't congest traffic in roundabouts. [laughs]
[laughs] So-
I'm surprised there wasn't more wrecks on those things. That's why I was curious.
Y- yeah, the ... A- are there a lot of wrecks at roundabouts?
It's getting a lot better. [laughs]
Okay.
'Cause that's ... It only-
Only took people a decade.
... like when we first put them in, yeah, there was a lot of little side swipes and-
[laughs]
... little minor things, but
...
Gotcha. Well, sweet. That, that was the main thing, is like how to take that roundabout. Appreciate it.
Hey, thanks, man. Hope you have a good one.
Follow the picture book. [laughs]
[laughs] Peace.
Thanks. Bye.
Um, I, I just remembered a question I had.
Oh, great. [laughs]
Yeah. It's a, it's a decent one.
And he turned and looked at me like this is really gonna be outstanding. [laughs]
Yeah, 'cause it, it made me laugh last night.
[laughs]
Made me laugh. So, I, I took my truck in to get it worked on, get my brakes worked on. And, uh, they also polished up my, uh, headlight c- covers at, uh, Grease Monkey. Shout out to the Grease Monkey on Channing Way. And they hooked me up with these new LED headlights.
Bright.
Oh, my goodness, are they bright!
[laughs]
Is there any limit on how bright just your regular headlights can be?
Yeah. Yeah. So, they definitely can't say, "Off-road use only."
Okay.
Can't put those in. And the ones that are bright like you're using, you still need to have them aimed in such a manner that they don't affect the vision of a vehicle coming towards you within 300 feet, nor ... Or, excuse me, 500 feet, nor as you come up behind them, it can't affect their vision at 300 feet.
Okay, I think I'm sitting good then. My truck has that little dial where I can move my headlights up and down.
Oh. Wow.
Classy. I mean, I don't know. Look at me, look at me.
Woo, woo! Cul-de-sac, dialed up d- headlights.
Last night I was like, all right, well, we needed to go to Walmart. And I turned my headlights on in my driveway. They reflected off my white garage door.
[laughs]
I was ... It was like the sun came out.
Blinded by the light.
It was amazing driving down the road.
[laughs]
I was like every other driver has to hate me. I, I felt like I was driving with my brights on around town.
[laughs]
I was like, "This is awesome." It was great.
K-Bear-
Yeah
... you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Hey, what's up, boss? Love you guys. Love your show. This is Stewart.
Hey.
Thank you. Thank you, Stewart. What's up, man?
I was just wondering if Lieutenant Crane could put me on to a reliable source for br- blinker fluid.
[laughs]
You know, Peaches, I, I think was getting low on blinker fluid, too.
Yeah.
So yeah. Where, where is the best place to go?
I think that Jiffy Lube where you got your headlights polished-
Oh, that would be Grease Monkey.
Oh, Grease Monkey. Whoo! [laughs]
Grease Monkey. Shout out to Grease Monkey, down with Jiffy Lube.
[laughs]
They do brakes-
New brakes? Doubt it. [laughs]
[laughs]
Oh, my brakes were so satisfying today. Oh, they haven't worked that good in, in, in ages.
[laughs]
And th- that combined with those headlights, oh, I, I felt like a king. King in the castle.
Oh, yes.
So yeah, Grease Monkey gets you hooked up on all the blinker fluid you need, Stewart.
Okay. Thank you. Th- there's a lot of people around here that could use that information.
'Cause it's o- ... Their blinker fluid's gone and they're not working, right? [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, just hit up Elliott or Zach at Grease Monkey on Channing.
And tell-
They'll get you all, all hooked up. They're the best.
"Victor sent me." That'll make up for all the problems [laughs] he caused while he was there.
And they, they even have cookies.
[laughs]
You walk in, there's fresh baked cookies you can-
There was. [laughs]
[laughs] Well, I bet they've got more by now.
[laughs]
Yeah, you sit there, eat the cookies. They get you all taken care of. It's awesome. [laughs] Thanks, Stuart.
Yeah, you have a good one now.
You, too. Peace. All right, hang on, Peaches. We'll get you a mic, and, uh, we gotta take this call real quick. Okay, bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is Danny.
Danny, what's up?
So, roundabout question.
Take your time. Dude, I-
Take my time?
[laughs]
A- are you trolling? We just covered all things roundabouts.
No, you didn't. You didn't cover this one.
Oh, oh, he called you out.
All right, let's see what you got, dude.
Danny versus Victor.
Okay, going into a roundabout, there is a semi in the roundabout, two-lane roundabout. Who has the right-of-way?
Well, it depends on when you're coming in. If he entered it first, he's got the right-of-way.
For both lanes?
If he needs 'em.
Thank you.
[laughs]
[laughs] You're welcome, Danny. That's a fair question.
Announce that to the world. Announce that to the cars that are on the road, the trucks have the right-of-way. Thank you.
Well, n- not at all times. Now, if they entered the roundabout first, and they need both lanes, common sense tells you, there's some roundabouts semis with a full trailer just don't fit in.
Correct. Correct.
And, and they're designed to run up over the curb, right? So, on the interior, they can run up over the curb, but people gotta use some common sense around semis and trailers.
I agree 100%.
And you know what? I gotta give you a shout-out for actually asking a question relating to roundabouts that I don't think has been asked before.
After you popped off to him. [laughs]
[laughs] I know.
Boom. Got it.
You called me about another roundabout question.
You win, all right? You win.
[laughs]
Happy Friday.
[laughs] You, too, man. Peace.
Bye.
What up, Peaches?
Um, I was gonna ask Lieutenant Crane a question.
All right, hang on, let's go to the caller first.
[laughs]
Sure, might as well.
All right then, shut up.
[laughs] Okay, bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Uh, this is John.
John, what's up, dude?
Well, I was thinking about Traffic School the other day, so I tuned in today to, to call and ask a question.
I love it.
I was coming home, coming home from Utah
a few months ago. I was going through the Malad Pass, and a state trooper was in front of me. I think I was going about 83, in the, in the 80, and I was coming up to pass him 'cause he was going exactly 80 miles an hour. And he, he had some sort of backwards lights thing going on, and he flashed me while I'm behind him. And I-
With his lights, I hope.
Yeah, with his lights.
[laughs]
[laughs] Like, that's skilled at 80.
It was dusk. I could already barely see anything 'cause it's that weird time of day where your headlights don't quite do anything, but still super dark. Um-
Dude, my headlights work during the day.
[laughs] Go to Grease Monkey.
[laughs] So-
Get a cookie.
... I was just questioning the, the legality of that move. I mean, he got off the, the highway a couple minutes later. I slowed down and pulled over in the right lane, and, and he turned them off about a minute later, but, but I was blinded, you know?
He turned them on and drove for about a minute?
Yeah, he, he, he drove for about a minute with them on, and then he finally turned them off. And then a couple miles later, he got off around, uh, Lava- Lava Hot Springs.
Okay, and I can tell you from me in a patrol car, and I just got another complaint on this the other day. A guy was offended that, uh, he'd had the rear caution lights turned on to, to warn him. Uh, I used to do it all the time. I'd have a car coming up hot behind me, and they not realize they're approaching a police car, and I'd turn my rear caution lights on just to let 'em know. To me, I'm looking at it like this, "Hey, I'll either give you an opportunity to slow down, or you come on by and get a ticket. Which one do you want?" [laughs]
Yeah, you were speeding.
[laughs]
[laughs] Yeah. So, yeah, no law saying we can't give you a warning with our lights. Okay, 'cause I've seen, I've seen, um, police cars recently, they- they've been doing some upgrades, where they have
dimmer lights, like, for caution. And they just, they just have, like, a solid red and blue that occasionally blink
when they're off on the side of the road, like, on traffic. Not, not for traffic stops specifically, but-
Yeah, for motorist assist or a tire change, yeah.
... just for other things.
And we do have all kinds of light patterns in our cars now. It's crazy what kind of light patterns we have. And there's different light patterns for night and a different light patterns for daylight.
Uh-huh. But these were, like, solid white, bright.
Oh, yeah, we do have take down lights, yep.
Okay. Okay, so those are completely fine to use?
Is that what he shined back at you while he was coming up behind you?
Yeah.
Or while you're com- ... Oh, I ... He may not have realized he turned on his solid whites. I ... Yeah.
I mean, this is new technology.
Yeah.
Uh, trust me, I deal with this guy next to me all the time.
[laughs] Yeah.
Old man, new stuff.
It- it ... So, that's not really giving a warning if it's the bright white, so that may have just been on a-
[laughs] Peaches is doing it to us now. It does suck. [laughs]
So, that may have been, uh, an accident- accidental button push that got you the wrong color.
[laughs] Fair enough.
So, that's when you call him in.
Goliath Speed Star 477.
Yep. "This guy flashed me with the white light!"
"I am so mad!"
[laughs]
So, yeah, sounds like it was a mistake, but, uh, yeah, um, hopefully these cops will learn how to use their lights soon.
That's the first one we've done in 10 years, first mistake. [laughs]
[laughs]
I just put it in my notebook.
Well, appreciate the call, man. Hope you have a good one.
Yeah. Thank you. You too.
Peace.
All right, Peaches, are you gonna be offended if we take one more call here? [laughs]
No, go for it. No, please, I'm here all day. They're not.
Oh.
Oh, no.
Okay, bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Uh, this is Butters. How are you?
Doing-
How are you guys?
Doing pretty good. What's your question?
Uh, I got a couple of them, and they have to do with radar.My first question is, are radar detectors illegal?
In commercial vehicles, yes. Not in, uh, pub- or, uh, not in personal.
Oh, okay. Uh-
But you know what I loved about radar detectors, is when [laughs] you'd walk up on the guy and say, "Hey that didn't quite work until you were right on me, did it?"
[laughs]
Because we can put our signal in standby, right? So, we're just sitting there not sending out a signal, and then when you get in our range of our radar, we can turn it on. We can have your speed before your radar detector goes off.
Okay. Mine does like, a quarter mile. It's amazing.
Yeah?
Anyways, um, do you guys, uh... So, my question, I- I have another question. So, if I'm driving say, northbound and you're coming eastbound, and you hit me with a laser or a radar, are you able to actually get my accurate speed because you're not like, head on with me?
So, I'm coming at you at a 90 degree angle?
Yeah.
No. No, we can do time and distance.
Oh, time and distance.
Yep.
Okay.
So, we do have some courses marked out where we know once a car points, or passes point A and gets to point B, we take that time it took and then have a formula and we can get the speed.
Okay. Last question. If I get pulled over, can I ask to see the radar?
You can ask and you'll be denied.
So, the-
Really? That was a shocker to you.
So, the officer can just pull-
I figured you guys would have to show it.
He can pull a number out of his hat?
Say that, "Victor overrode you." [laughs]
[laughs]
So, so he can just pull a number out of a hat and, uh, and we just have to go with it?
Uh, no, not necessarily. What happens is, uh, the radar goes off. We, uh, watch you completely through the tunnel of the radar, right? So, from the time the radar picks you up until you go off, and then, uh... I- I hate to break the news to you, but this law enforcement gig is all about honesty. [laughs]
[laughs]
And so, uh, the officer that's walking up to your car isn't going, "Oh, yeah. This is Jimmy. I'm gonna give him one today."
Yeah, unless you're in Burley.
[laughs]
Yeah. "Saw you weren't wearing your seatbelt." Like, uh,
"Okay, why'd you pull me over?" "Uh..."
[laughs]
"... you were speeding!" "No, I wasn't!"
[laughs]
You were now!
"I guess I'll give you a warning."
[laughs]
So, uh, and let me tell you the reason we won't allow you back to see the radar, and that's for officer safety purposes.
Okay.
Yep.
I get that.
Okay. You'd have to take them back to the car, and then the next thing you know they're jetting off in it.
[laughs]
And I've been in law enforcement for a few years now, but I have been involved with two, two different incid- uh, two different times where individuals drove off in our patrol cars that we're supposed to be in them.
[laughs]
That is...
Did it turn into like, the, the Varsity Blues scene when he takes off in the patrol car?
I, I haven't seen that but it's pretty hilarious. We've got videos of both that I've been on.
[laughs]
And those are the only two that I know of that happened, but the one we had arrested a mother-daughter team for, uh, stealing a car out of Utah. And, uh, I was headed to back them up. Uh, the sergeant showed up on scene. They put the daughter in his car. He didn't have his, uh, partition closed between the cage and the front of the car. She was small enough, she pulled her handcuffs out from behind her back, to the front, craw- crawled through the partition.
[laughs]
He didn't have his anti-theft device activated.
[laughs]
And him and the other trooper are stand- it was so awesome to watch on video. They're standing there talking together and all of a sudden you hear this [imitates engine revving].
[laughs]
And he looks over his shoulder and he's like, "Is that my patrol car?"
[laughs]
And so, he runs, they pull the mother out of the other car. He jumps in it, and now he's in pursuit of his own vehicle. [laughs]
[laughs]
You know what, Victor? For social media we should have you try to climb through the partition too, and-
Uh...
I don't know if you've seen how much weight I've put on this last year.
[laughs]
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to fit.
It'd be funny if I did it too.
Oh, now that would-
I mean, I think... Yeah.
Just seeing you try to get in the back of a police car is pretty funny.
It's awful. [laughs]
[laughs]
Well, we appreciate-
All right. Well, thank you guys. Have a great afternoon and a good weekend.
Hey, you too, man. Peace. All right, Peaches, what was your question? And then we'll end the show.
So, there was a YouTuber that was, uh, fake arresting other YouTubers on a video, and I was... I- isn't that totally illegal?
Uh, if you're impersonating a police officer without the other party being involved, that would be illegal. But if they are involved, and they go, "Oh, we're doing this for a video," yeah, that's... Nobody's going to say anything about it.
Okay, I was wondering that 'cause-
Even doing it on public roadways? [clears throat]
Well, are you talking about car stops?
They w- they pretended like, this guy... So, there was a whole police chase in LA. They pretended this guy was harboring a fugitive. They put an actor in this guy's like, second story room. And [laughs] they had him and a bunch of fake police officers come in and be like, "You're harboring a fugitive. Now we gotta take you in," in this fake police car. And, yeah...
Uh, it depends. It may be. Depends on what they're doing there. Uh, typically, if everybody's involved and knows what's up, there's not a crime. What happens is, if I impersonate a police officer to gain some kind of advantage over somebody or intimidation, law enforcement.
All right. Makes... That makes sense.
Yeah.
So, get yourself that cop uniform, Peaches.
Sure.
We'll start making those YouTube videos. [laughs]
[laughs]
All right. Good edition of Traffic School, powered by the Advocates Today, everybody. Tune in every Friday morning, 8:45, for more knowledge from me, Lieutenant Crane, and Peaches. [sirens] 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.