Does anyone know what the daily life of a highway patrol is like? What are his day to day tasks like?

Question

What does he do (besides stop vehicles obviosly)? What does he do other than that?? Does anyone know one personally??

Answer 1

THEY PATROL THE HIGH WAYS AND BYWAYS.

ASSIST OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN RURAL COUNTIES.

THEY INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS.
DO DEATH SCENE INVESTIGATIONS.
SAVE LIVES WHEN POSSIBLE.(RENDER FIRST AID AND CPR ON ACCIDENT SCENES)
PULL OCCUPANT(S) FROM BURNING VEHICLES.

ENFORCE THE TRAFFIC LAWS ON HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.
BLOCK TRAFFIC ON ROADS DEEMED UNFIT FOR TRAVEL(SNOW STORMS IN ALABAMA-??--STATE TROOPERS CAN CLOSE THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM TO BE TRAVELED UPON EXCEPT FOR POLICE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND CAN CITE ANYONE IN VIOLATION)

WORK FOR THE GOVERNOR AS HIS ENFORCEMENT TEAM.
GUARD HEAD FOOTBALL COACHES AT MAJOR UNIVERSITIES WITHIN THE STATE.

Answer 2

Every state's Highway Patrol / State Troopers have one main mission.... To maintain the safety of the Federal Highway System.

So, 99.9% of their time is stopping violators on the highways and investigating traffic crashes or any offense that happens on the highway system in their state.

Being a Trooper is all traffic tickets and crash reports and assisting stranded and / or broken down motorists..... Thats just about it. Occasional they get in on Narcotics Traffic Intervention on the Highway System.

In a few select states, the Troopers also handle police calls for service in unincorporated towns that have no police service or county Sheriff's Office.

And that is that.............. I once wanted to be a Trooper but after checking into the job I knew that I would get board with it for a life time. So I went to work in a major city and was involved in all aspects of police work.

I have had guys work for me over the years that were former Troopers that came to the agency I work for. They hated it after 4 or 5 years. Bored outta their skulls. Now they are putting bad guys in jail and see a chance for career development and are having a ball.

Don't get me wrong... I am not bashing the job.. It is just not for me. Midnight shift riding the highway looking for speeders or drunks gets old fast for me. Give me a rocking police radio or a great crime scene to work and I am right at home.

Answer 3

They sometimes have to keep traffic away from accident sites while somebody gets scraped off the pavement because they didn't wear a seat belt . Some of them also have some cute friendly dogs . I think they are a cut above the average cop - with more responsibility and most are less likely to be on power trips .

Answer 4

well the ones who work commercial motor vheicle enforcment usually sit around in a shady spot eating donuts while reading gay porno mags and preventing truckers from earning a living
(in arkansas they read the latest issue of inbred weekly)

Answer 5

cruises around on the taxpayers dollar,pulls over said taxpayer and calls him a liar after said taxpayers tells him he knows why he was being pulled over(after being asked). Gives said taxpayer a ticket for something he didn't do,simply because he knows you can't contest the made up charge. Seriously why call somone a liar after they admit to doing something and give them a ticket for something they didn't do.