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Old 02-05-2023, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed View Post
Ok. Now the elephant in the room…..Top speed on my cart is 20 mph. I do see it reach 21 mph downhill or in a strong tailwind. EVERYBODY passes me. Should I “adjust” that little spring so I can increase speed by 5 mph?! Probably illegal but it would help a lot of cart drivers behind me better avoid a ticket. A conundrum.
I was thinking about the same elephant. It seems to me that if a LEO were to ticket a cart driver for crossing the white line to pass, while exceeding the 20mph limit, that they would cite the cart driver for the bigger infraction of operating an unregistered motor vehicle.
That is the bigger fish to fry.

If the Sumter Co. Sheriff Dept. wants to stop carts from crossing the white line to pass other carts, it could spend the whole day on Pinellas, or Bailey, or Odell, just writing tickets. Yet they don't do that, yet we are to believe one sheriff decided to do it this one time...

Something just seems weird to me in this entire scenario.