RAM drivers get more than double the average number of DUIs - raise your hand if you aren’t surprised
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Based on the number of douche bros in my neck of the woods, driving their lifted RAMs like they were sports cars, this isn’t a surprise.
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My hands are fully raised
(Yeah I re-read the title and had to come edit this)
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I used to get pulled over all the time in my very off-road setup JK driving home from night shift. Thing basically had a target on it. Eventually the patrols had all taken their turns pulling me over or following me for KM’s and would ignore me. Could always tell when a new officer was around, as the behaviour would always be the same pattern. I know the general kind that often, not always, or even mostly, but often enough, drives a lifted/aggressive vehicle while drunk. It IS called profiling for a reason.
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@musashi66 Glad it specified the 2500. Both my dad and brother in law drive 1500, and they definitely don't fit the mold. My dad complained when he bought his EcoDiesel that it was a little too high in stock (2WD) configuration!
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@musashi66 It was a 1-ton Ram and a drunk driver that took out an electrical transformer and crashed into someone's house in my neighborhood a few years ago.
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Here in rural Ontario I don’t think the douchebros are driving those numbers up, though we’ve got plenty of them too and they don’t need booze to drive like dickwads.
Daydrinking old-timers will be the brunt of that statistic here. I don’t spend much time around those kinds of folks but the one I can name has multiple DUIs and does, amusingly, drive a Ram 2500. Or at least he did the last time I saw him ~5 years ago - I hope he’s lost his license by now.
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@houstonrunner Around here, RAM dealers will finance you if you have a pulse, and the RAM Classic is the cheapest way into a full size truck.
That attracts a a certain sort of folks, and cops know to pay a bit more attention to those kind of folks.Not everyone driving a RAM is a DUI sort of a person, but apparently, quite a few are.
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It'd be interesting to see this for lifted trucks as well - in some areas, probably like a 2:1 relationship.
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@musashi66 Having spent some time in jail, I assumed most of the guys in there for DUIs drove Nissan Maximas.
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@fintail said in RAM drivers get more than double the average number of DUIs - raise your hand if you aren’t surprised:
It'd be interesting to see this for lifted trucks as well - in some areas, probably like a 2:1 relationship.
Based on my experience commuting, probably closer to 1:1
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@sn4cktimes said in RAM drivers get more than double the average number of DUIs - raise your hand if you aren’t surprised:
I used to get pulled over all the time in my very off-road setup JK driving home from night shift. Thing basically had a target on it. Eventually the patrols had all taken their turns pulling me over or following me for KM’s and would ignore me. Could always tell when a new officer was around, as the behaviour would always be the same pattern. I know the general kind that often, not always, or even mostly, but often enough, drives a lifted/aggressive vehicle while drunk. It IS called profiling for a reason.
Young male brains are underdeveloped until their mid to late 20’s. In some cases, even when fully developed, the IQ of some of those males is below the national average of 98. Those males have a certain way of showing off in certain vehicles, and cops know that.
I love a lifted truck as much as the next car guy, but it’s a fact that many dudes in lifted trucks are just brodouches, breaking the law, and cops usually have a pretty good reason to pull them over.
My wife used to specialize in DUI law and I saw many videos of drunk drivers, and the aftermath of accidents they cause. More of those guys off the roads, the better.
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@trivet I was thinking 2 DUIs for each driver (and probably like 10 for a truck over its life).
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@fintail said in RAM drivers get more than double the average number of DUIs - raise your hand if you aren’t surprised:
@trivet I was thinking 2 DUIs for each driver (and probably like 10 for a truck over its life).
My apologies. Your calculations seem to be in order here. Carry on good sir.
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Wow, makes sense...but that statistic is almost 5%. Which is...shocking. I'm curious what the general average amongst the licensed population is?
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@daswauto Shockingly, losing one's license doesn't usually stop them from drinking and driving. It's quite sad, actually.
The worst I've seen is someone released on a Tuesday morning with their license suspended due to an impaired then get picked up early Friday afternoon for an impaired.
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@cb said in RAM drivers get more than double the average number of DUIs - raise your hand if you aren’t surprised:
@daswauto Shockingly, losing one's license doesn't usually stop them from drinking and driving. It's quite sad, actually.
The worst I've seen is someone released on a Tuesday morning with their license suspended due to an impaired then get picked up early Friday afternoon for an impaired.
Having known my uncle, that does not surprise me. What surprises me is a guy who's nickname was "Case a day Dave" drove shitfaced every single day of his life for probably 40 years, somehow never got a DUI. I loved the guy, but thankfully he never killed anybody. That's a damn miracle.
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@shop-teacher Sometimes people get lucky. People out here take the back roads to avoid the cops. Which has lead to plenty of cops now hunting for impaired/suspended drivers on the back roads in the middle of the night.
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@musashi66 Not at all surprised. Its between Rams, lifted/modified Silverados, and lifted Wranglers with Angry Bird grilles for douchiest drivers. Some modified imports - Subarus, GTIs, etc, but they are fewer and fewer in number as the real A-holes gravitate more toward full-size pickups.
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@musashi66 So that's why my insurance keeps going up...... Goddam Truckcism!
Note that the Chevy S-10 is #2 and the Dodge Dakota is #5. Interestingly, they've been out of production for 10 or 15 years. You also have the BMW 4-series and Audi A4 in 3rd and 4th rounding out the top 5. So in addition to the obvious bro truck drivers you have small old pickup aficionados and poser leasemobiles.
I betcha if you enhanced the data you'd find the Ram drivers were most likely drunk on Coors Light, the extinct little pickup drivers on liquor sold in a plastic bottle, and the leasemobile drivers on either craft bear or Grey Goose & cranberry.
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@cb That’s not shocking to me at all, unfortunately. I know of people who’ve put their vehicles in their wives’ names to avoid getting pulled over in vehicles registered to their name because their license is suspended. Cops here are very vigilant on that one, probably for that reason; my siblings got pulled over multiple times driving my mom’s Explorer because her license was suspended (expired now, probably) for medical reasons.
It’s probably so prevalent here, and perhaps even moreso where you are, because it’s fairly easy to get away with. Cruising down the back roads with some road beers going is hard to police in such a vast, sparsely populated country.
As you mention, I do see cops on the side roads more frequently now than I would in the past, likely cruising around for those jokers. It’s still very infrequent though, so lots skate by without a care in the world.
I’d like to hope that as those oldtimers expire that their careless mindset towards DUI dies with them, but there remains a subset of people whose entire goal in life seems to be to work just enough to be pissed practically all the time. It’s sad, and disappointing.
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@daswauto Yeah, it's also annoying that, even with a suspended license, you can still register a vehicle in Saskatchewan. Odds are good for your siblings that if one of the license plate readers saw your suspended mother as the registered owner, it would have alerted the cop driving it.
The youths are generally better at getting a DD, so I hope your sentiment is right.
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@cb oh yeah, the readers alerting them is exactly why. An officer once rolled up to my sister fuelling it up, obviously seeing she wasn’t my mom, and barely stopped while asking to confirm as much. They always suggested changing the registration as my mom already wasn’t driving anymore but we never bothered, that’s why they were questioned on it several times. That car has been traded in now though so such instances won’t happen anymore.
