Serious Public

[Debra2005]

About five years ago my boyfriend and I had car troubles but managed to get ourselves to a rest area stop. The public phone there wasn't working and our cell phone got no reception, but we figured no problem, we'll ask the next highway patrolman to pull in to please radio a tow truck for us. We weren't worried as we assumed, like the rest of us, Highway Patrol need to make "rest" stops as do all of us, probably more. Being in a car all day, probably drinking coffee to keep alert, one must need to stop with regularity. Yet we waited and waited and though we saw a couple of HWP pass by, none stopped. After several hours we asked a truckdriver to use his CB radio to get a tow truck to us. As we love to hike, we travel a lot, and this incident brought to our attention that neither one of us has ever seen a highway patrol stop at a rest stop.

My question is, where do highway patrol make their necessary "rest stops?" Do they have special areas just for them? My boyfriend says they probably just stop by the roadside, as we do at night. But since he got a scolding and verbal warning for taking a leak under a viaduct by a partrolman, I would think this is not allowed by those in command.

Just curious...!

[Wombat311]

One thread of the same question is enough, don't you think?

[Debra2005]

sorry, my mistake. thought the original hadn't gone through.