I can't drive 55.

As Sammy Hagar said - "Go on write me up for 125 and post my face wanted dead or alive." It would appear the State of Tennessee has too much free time as they've now brought all of their part time state troopers on full time hoping to generate $9 million in speeding ticket sales. Officers have a goal of a ticket every 10 minutes. Let's be serious. Is this really necessary? They're considering five miles over the speed limit to be good reason to give you a ticket. While they have you pulled over, they can give you a ticket for anything else (seat belt violations, broken tail lights, etc.) to keep their average of a ticket every 10 minutes alive. Really, there are such better ways to have state troopers spend their time. Our sales tax here is almost 10 percent so why is it this state needs to generate more revenue? Personally I think we should take a long hard look at where the money is going and why we have budget problems every year before the state declares martial law on all motor vehicles to generate revenue. Anyway, if this was years ago and I still had a fast car I'd make them try to catch me. Now I have a Jeep so doing the speed limit on the interstate is about all you can hope for, exceeding is out of the question. Maybe I'm making more out of this than there is because I haven't seen a state trooper yet, but I think it's more the principle of "we need money so we're writing tickets every 10 minutes." That would be like high school bands robbing you at gun point to make money for their trip to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Maybe they should try that, the state seems to be getting away with it. I think as long as they make a public announcement that they're going to be going door to door robbing people blind at gunpoint no one will argue. At any rate, I think it's a bit excessive and just gives our local law enforcement a bigger opportunity to act like bullies did in elementary school. They really don't need more of an excuse, but we just gave them one.