My buddy and I were crusing in his PSD (it runs 13.2's) and we were on Beltway 8 leaving the toll booth when he stomped it. Smoke went everywhere. Well, a little ways down the road, the officer caught us and gave him a ticket for excessive smoke. Yall ever heard of that? His truck is stock exhaust with straight pipe and a 125hp chip and propane. The cop didn't give him a ticket for excessive accleration, or spinning tires (which he did quite nicely), or speeding (is 100 in a 65 speeding? ;D). Just excessive smoke. I just thought I'd share that with yall.

 

Sounds to me like he got off lucky.<br>He could be looking at a Reckless Driving charge.<br><br>What's the fine for excessive smoke?

 

How can they fine a pickup for excessive smoke? The big rigs blow smoke all day long.... Heck, when I was going to work the other day, a public transportation bus was in the left lane and stomped it from light to light and left a black cloud the entire way. I thought he had an EZ on it for a minute there... I think that's a lame ticket. Did ya blow him a black kiss when pulling away? ;D<br><br>Tony

 

I have heard of that ticket but I asked a Ohio state trooper about it and he said he has never heard of it. I asked him what he would do to me if I left a big cloud of smoke at a stoplight and he said he could do nothing. He said in Ohio there is no law that says anything about exsessive smoke. He said that some local towns and other places may have a local law that pretains to smoke but no state law does.<br>DM01

 

Wow, DodgeMan01, another Cincy member, I was beginning to think I was the only one. Cool. I personally got pulled over a couple months ago for the same thing. My truck is stock, so it wasn;t smoking toooo bad, bad for a stock truck, but not that bad... next tthing I see is blue lights. Cop asks for my e-check certificate, I did not have one cuz I haven;t had it checked yet (trucks only a year and a half old). He said that my truck was smoking awfully bad to be so new... he didn't realize it as a diesel, and he let me go. Never heard of such a thing happening to anyone else till now. At least I'm not the only one... sux you got a ticket though. <br>-Dave

 

It's a $100+ dollar ticket. I told my buddy that we should have used the propane to help &quot;clean up&quot; the cloud. ;D I don't think the guy realized it was a diesel either. The ticket should get dropped.

 

[quote author=BigBlue link=board=10;threadid=9950;start=0#95140 date=1043270727]<br>It's a $100+ dollar ticket..........The ticket should get dropped.<br>[/quote]<br>I wonder if that was the officer's original intent, he was just giving your buddy a &quot;Wake-up-call&quot;.

 

BigBlue<br><br>I agree it is BS to get a smoke ticket, but if there is a statute on the books, he may have trouble getting it dropped.<br>His word against the LEO if he goes to court. <br><br>Smoke is smoke no matter what or how it is generated. :<br><br>A smoke ticket would be easier to swallow than a moving violation like the 100 in a 65 or the &quot;unsafe start&quot; (spinning the tires). Those tickets make the insurance go up, the smoke ticket shouldn't affect anything like that.

 

I would tell the Judge that the truck only smokes like that immediately after it eats one of those small foreign wheel barrows ;D

 

Sounds like a variation of the &quot;excessive exhibition of horsepower&quot; ticket.

 

I had that problem on my 2000 PSD,it was a bad injector,but it ran perfect but when you stompt on it it would smoke like crazzzy.After they fixed it it went away.