As 2025 approaches, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is taking action to promote safe travel and prevent tragic crashes on California’s roadways. Starting at 6:01 p.m. on Tuesday, December 31, the CHP will begin a statewide Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP) to crack down on dangerous driving behaviors and protect all road users. This heightened enforcement will continue through 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. During the New Year’s MEP, CHP officers will target speeding, distracted driving, seatbelt violations, and impaired driving. Last year, during the 78-hour New Year’s enforcement effort, CHP officers made 892 DUI arrests statewide. If you see a driver who appears impaired, call 9-1-1 immediately. Provide the dispatcher with key details such as the vehicle’s description, license plate number, location, and direction of travel. Acting quickly could save lives. Let’s welcome 2025 responsibly. Drive sober, stay focused, and help make the new year safe for everyone on the road. The mission of the CHP is to provide the highest level of Safety, Service, and Security.
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Good to know they do their job at maximum enforcement occasionally. All the other times, apparently not?
Why don’t we do maximum enforcement all year long? All you have to do is drive around Concord on regular errands to see how some of these people drive.
Designated bovine
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I think the bull Roofied the guy.
You’re sense of humor is Outstanding !
The wife sent the cow to get him back from the bar.
Sounds like every new year they make a resolution to really enforce traffic laws this year, really. Unfortunately this only last for what sounds like a few days and then it’s back to sleep and logging bogus hours?? At least they quit taking selfies with their radar gun (or at least claycord quit posting it).
“Old habits die hard…”
I did about 35 miles round trip of driving on 4 and 80 today. Traffic was super light and all I saw for police was one Sheriff deputy going the other way on 4. I figured I would have seen at least one CHP officer out. I usually see them daily on my commute.
well, they saw me, and my newer car rides much more smoothly than my older vehicle, and so I was going a bit faster than the legislators/regulators have decided is the limit. My own personal experience with the enforcement period, not a great way to start the year…bummer. The sad part is, I get passed like I am standing still so often.
How fast did they get you for ? The tickets are extremely expensive for speeding. Hard to afford for many.
80 these newer cars run rather smoothly. and with light traffic, and not paying attention to speed, was pretty easy. I know they get expensive, like everything, California charges. they have added administration fees, which I find a reasonable thing to charge to the offender; the amount of admin tells me we are paying too many people to do nonproductive activities. The high cost of bureaucracy.
Always go to court to fight the ticket and almost every case the officer does not show up at least in my half dozen cases they have never shown up one time and my case is dismissed no matter how severe the ticket was and let me tell you it sure pisses a judge off when the cop doesn’t show up in fact I heard a lot of times the cops get fined if they don’t show up.
When you get a ticket in California, the actual fine is not that large, but for many years, California politicians have funded their favorite projects by adding fees on top of the fines, making traffic tickets unaffordable for many people. That is only one of many reasons why so many people will not or cannot renew their license.
It is pretty much impossible to find out how many unlicensed drivers are in the state because nobody really wants to know. Before we left California, I read that it was estimated that one-in-seventeen drivers in the state were not currently licensed. Those numbers cannot possibly be good for public safety and have most certainly increased. One known statistic is that 16% of drivers involved in fatal crashes in California have been unlicensed.