I was pulled over by the equivilant of a panda car in a residential street 2 weeks ago. I had never been pulled over in over 8 years of driving and driving numerous cars etc. He came up with a breathaliser (was 2pm on a sunday) and asked if I knew what to do. I politely said no expecting him to get shirty (obviously I knew to blow into it but not for how long and what intensity) and he was polite enough. Then asked for my licence, ran it through his computer and I was on my way.

I was also driving a vehicle that wasnt mine and he was fine with all that.

There are dodgy ones as there are in every walk of life but if you treat them the same way as you would like to be treated then I havent heard of many bad stories.

Traffic cops on our trucks can be a bit harsh though as essentially any truck going from Melbourne to Sydney has to pass through a place called Marulan. There is a huge defect station there. Now Marulan is abuot 600kms from our depot so imagine all the things that can happen in those 600kms. The amount we fall foul of is amazing and crippling our revenue. Yet trucks that never leave our state and run by other companies have bald tyres, smoky, faulty lights etc