Waskom, Texas Speed Traps

The small town cops of Waskom patrol this regularly. If someone is speeding near you, make sure to slow down & give wide berth. Many people have been stopped & ticketed claiming that the second person was going the same rate. You can try to fight it but that’s their city revenue & they use a DA, not the standard traffic court. They even use incorrect radar info (against the laws of radar physics). They may even stop you & further discussion shows that it was outside their city limits. In court for my ticket, they showed the video of the person in front of me who was doing the actual speeding (didn’t show my supposed speeding stop) & had the audacity to not even edit out how the cop told the guy that he wouldn’t charge him for a construction area stop if he just paid. (It wasn’t a construction area–no barrels, signs or workers. But the guy was buying it hook, line & sinker. He should’ve just looked around & behind him. A cop friend (from a big city) was stopped weeks after me; he runs the radar dept & knew that he was being fed a line of bull as well as knowing he wasn’t doing anything wrong. He was let go after much arguing (& letting Waskom know his background).

I do believe it’s against the LAW for a city to set up regular "speed traps" on or along Federal Interstate highways. This town makes it’s money from setting up in the median of I-20 hiding at bridge overpasses. They "ticket" for 1mph over the speed limit and will even say you were going faster than the legal speed, despite your having cruise control on. They do the same thing along U.S. Hwy 80. AVOID this TOWN!

This is a small community on I-20 near the Louisiana state line. The police force will sit along the interstate, especially at night, since in the state of Texas the speed limit drops from 70 mph to 65 mph at night for passenger vehicles. Plus this community banks on the fact that a lot of vistors from the Dallas/Fort Worth area travel the I-20 corridor to visit the riverboat casinos in near by Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana.

Cop sitting under Interstate 20 overpass at state hwy 9 pointing west bound. One there about 24 hrs. a day. The one I had experance with will lie to you about how fast you are going.

Waskom Texas is the last town you pass through before entering Louisiana. Waskom has two exits and the officers usually sit between the two exits at an underpass. I have seen them there throughout the day but they mainly cover night hours. They strickly enforce the 65 mph night speed limit. The Judge is very friendly but you will not be able to get out of the fine(s).