Jurisdiction

Abilene to Fort Worth, Texas

Speed Trap Location

Interstate 20

Nearest Reference Point

n/a

GPS Coordinates

n/a

Time of Day

Any time of day

Level of Enforcement

Moderate

Type of Enforcement

Radar, Laser

Date

4/2002

Abilene City Police are on patrol East side of Abilene for 5 miles. Baird to Cisco (or vice versa) enforced strongly with Highway Patrol. False alarms in Weatherford due to many convenience stores and motels. Speed limit drops to 65 in Parker County and down to 60 once in Tarrant County. Ft. Worht PD patrol I-30 all the way to Dallas County. Staying in "trains" will help, due to the heavy traffic. DON'T BE OBVIOUS on the freeway!

Comment (11/2002): I think its good that they are out there doing there job . Ifeel saffer knowing there catching speeders and all the law breakers.

Comment (11/2002): bewteen mile marker 350 and 380 their is usally 3 patrol for illegals and contraband,their cars are solid black ,usaly early morning or late evening

Comment (5/2002): Fort Worth officer told me that their criteria for speeding on the interstates within the city is, 70.1 MPH get you a piece of paper.

Comment (6/2002): Also watch out for Hudson Oaks and Willow Park police cars running radar between Weatherford and Fort Worth.

Comment (6/2002): Tx/DPS runs several cars on I-20 through Parker County. I've seen as many as 5 in a 3 mile distance.

Comment (1/2003): East I30 @820 loop. Fort Worth Plain Camaro Cop often sits here. He is hidden behind a pillar as you turn the corner

Comment (2/2003): On a daily basis from mile maker 400-420 you will pass 3-4 state troopers and that doesn't include radr from the cities of Weatherford, Hudson Oaks and Willow Park.

Comment (2/2003): I-30 IN Arlington at Collins Street overpass, and Ball Park Way overpass. Arlington PD has radar ON TOP of the OVERPASSES. They radio down to a LONG LINE of motorcycle and marked police cars that are sitting at the ON RAMPS that lead onto I-30 (you CANNOT see them). They pull over "speeders", write a ticket, go to the next EXIT, turn around, and GET BACK IN LINE until it's thier turn again.VERY SNEAKY,but it works great for them.

Comment (2/2003): The section of I20 between the city of Eastland and Cisco has to be the heaviest patrolled section of highway I have ever seen. I make the trip from Denton to Abilene often and I will bet good hard money you will come across a DPS officer in this area. I also believe they profile in this area also,since it is a major drug route. I also agree with the previous entrie that the area of I20 between Baird and Clyde is patrolled heavily. Be safe , drive to the road conditions and if you get stopped and you are guilty, just grin and bear it.

Comment (9/2003): I wish they'd put an officer at every mile marker in this area. Too many truckers doing 80 mph in wall to wall traffic.

Comment (3/2003): Fort Worth has now started an operation in construction zones. They are posing undercover as construction workers surveying, but they have a radar not a surveyors tool. Be careful! Traffic fines could be doubled just with one construction worker being on job site.

Comment (6/2003): I do not believe that writing tickets for someone going 70.1 in a 70 is "doing their job". Same for going 4 miles over. Yesterday I drove a hundred miles, not speeding, and was passed by real speeders time and again. I turned down a backroad to head home. No one else on the road. I picked up speed and realized I was up to 60 (limit is 55) so let off the gas and was coasting back down to 55. Guess what? In that one block of slowing down, the flashing lights came on. A highway patrol hiding in the shadows by a bridge. Wrote me up. Anyone that believes that he was working to stop a dangerous speeder is just wrong. He was working to make a quota to pay for local government costs. Speedtraps like that serve no other purpose. Oh yeah, and on the way home, doing 55, I was passed at least twice by people doing at least 80. No cop around. Wake up, America, they aren't stopping the speeders. They don't want to. It's a money-making operation. That's why speedtraps are placed in "who cares" locations, and not on the roads where dozens speed by all the time. If everyone in the USA would quit speeding for just one month.. a national speeding boycott.. maybe they'd have to start chasing the real criminals and not people going just one or two miles over the speed limit.

Comment (7/2003): As far as I'm concerned from Abilene to Ft. Worth is a speedtrap! I was pulled over in Weatherford and I wasn't even speeding. He apparently scanned someone else and thought it was me. He was rude, and laughed at me when I told him he got the "wrong guy". I went to court and demanded a jury trial (which I am entitled to) and was stonewalled for two months. When I finally got to trial they had forgot to get a jury and said that they could scape one up from around the DPS office. I objected and they finally threw my case out. They have changed the speed limit to 65mph now in Parker County for no other reason but to pull over people. Be careful in Parker County!

Comment (3/2004): Only in Texas, Montana, and Nevada can you do 70 mph on a two-lane highway! yahoo!

Comment (3/2004): I-20 eastbound, speed limit drops to 65 mph in Parker County, at night it doesn't matter, you gotta drive 65 at night anyway

Comment (3/2004): I used to live in Clyde before moving to Plano and drive over to see family quite often. I completely agree that the I-20 stretch from here to Abilene is a speeder's worst nightmare. There is nothing along the way and if you aren't paying attention to your speed you will be flying before you know it. My advice is to get a radar detector and pray that you see them before they see you.

Comment (3/2004): on i 20 betwwen abilene and ftworth is nothing but a speed trap period. have ran that strech of road for the last 17 years daily. they may not have even clocked your car at all. between the daily people i see pulled over and the searches they do its b.s. and remember easland tx has the most tickets written in the state. for speeding.

Comment (11/2003): My wife and I were pulled over near Roscoe, TX on the 20 W for doing 81 in a 70, and at the time we were going downhill and passing a big rig -- the State Trooper didn't care, he also didn't care that we were on our honeymoon trying to get back to California. He told us we could either stay the night in Roscoe until the judge could see us, or we could give him a money order for $140 written out to the judge personally. Is this a scam? We didn't have time to lose so we paid him and left. It was definitely a speed trap. Also, my little hybrid car tops out at 81, I couldn't go faster if I wanted to. I imagine they target out of state license plates like mine since no one in their right mind would want to stay the night in Roscoe.