Getting Pulled Over

[epretot]

If or when the police stop you in your bus, how do you communicate with then?

Through the driver side window?

Do you open the door?

When pulled over in the car, I roll the window down and kill the engine. I make certain both of my hands are on the wheel as they approach.

If I were law enforcement, I would be nervous about coming to the door. However, being on the traffic side is also dangerous.

[freds]

The one time I got pulled over. I just opened the door and sat on the step...

[Jim Blackwood]

Provided you are carrying no contraban ;-)
I would do my best to appear friendly and non-threatening (and perhaps a little clueless), and if they do not look too wound up, ask them if they would prefer to step inside. Odds are they will decline but it will improve your overall image a little. If you can persuade them that you consider their stop a courtesy to inform you of something that you were not aware of you are halfway home. If you can also persuade them that you would never knowingly do whatever it was they stopped you for without explicitly denying it so much the better, EXCEPT that the very last thing you want to do is project any hint that you might doubt their intelligence. So if you were speeding you might as well admit it but provide the extenuating circumstances to explain why anybody else would do the same thing. They've seen and heard it all, there will be no hoodwinkery. But they do have the discretion to send you on your way if they like you.

Jim

[Van]

Run! Then plead the 5th, if they catch you. 

[lvmci]

I got stopped in Missouri and the cop said he just wanted to see the bus!...

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

The one time I got pulled over. I just opened the door and sat on the step...

After being caught swerving in the other lane a few months ago, I did the same thing and cut him off.   I told him there was a bee in the bus I was trying to kill.   After he came to the driver's window, I told him I could come out the curbside door, and I sat on the steps and waited for him to return with a written warning.

[windtrader]

I just opened the door, had a brief initial conversation, then exited bus. no big

[epretot]

Run! Then plead the 5th, if they catch you. 

I almost spit my coffee out reading this.