Weed, California • •

CHP officers love to ‘cherry-pick’ North- bound traffic just after the on-ramp at the top of the little hill about 1/2 mile north of Truck Village drive exit. You’ll see the candy-colored water truck dealership on the Right, then go up a 1/4 mile grade. CHP sits facing you, behind bushes in a paved cross-over median. Can’t see him until it’s too late, unless you know to look. Your Valentine One radar detector will tell you he’s working most of the time, but they do use Instant-On. I drive this every day and always see them writing tickets for 75-80 in the 65 Zone. Officers tell me it’s prime Cherry picking for out-of-staters. The freeway is wide and fairly straight so seems like it should be 75, but not until almost to Weed airport 5 miles further north does the speed limit increase to 70 mph, so BEWARE.