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Trooper Tips: Blinker etiquette

The blinker is the most misused item in a vehicle. It’s a great tool to have when trying to communicate with fellow drivers. What an invention. A system that lets others know what you’re thinking and you don’t have to utter one word or make any other sound. So why[Read More…]

March 23, 2022 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: New year resolution

As we arrive in yet another year, it’s time for a few New Year resolutions. If you’ll indulge me, I have a suggestion for one of them this year. 2022 needs to have a little more happiness than the last two seem to have severely missed and I have tips[Read More…]

January 6, 2022 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: Buckle up the little ones

I talk a lot about seatbelts and how they save lives, and that is true. Using your seatbelt is quite simple, you grab the strap, pull it over you and click the buckle. It makes sure you survive in a crash. But when it comes to securing your little ones[Read More…]

November 4, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: Don’t get swept away

RBC I With all of the fires Colorado has had over the past few years we are starting to see a real problem with flash flooding affecting our roadways in burn areas. Recently, I-70 near Glenwood Springs has been shut down multiple times due to mudslides covering the roadway. I[Read More…]

August 6, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: Motorcycle season

RBC | Motorcycle season is now upon us again. Dust off the motorcycle seat and check it out to see if your bike and you are ready to hit the open roads again. As fun as it is to ride a motorcycle, I wanted to let you know that the[Read More…]

May 18, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Opinion

Trooper Tips: Registration, driver’s licenses and insurance

RBC | Ask a trooper about how to drive safer on the roadway and you better take seat because it could be a while before the trooper finishes. I have plenty to say about driving, the hardest part is picking a single topic among the myriad number of laws to[Read More…]

March 8, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: Always know where you’re going

RBC | Our vehicles today seem to have everything we can possibly want in them. We can connect to the internet, talk on our phones through the vehicle’s system, and of course use our GPS. Doesn’t seem as if there is anything else we could possibly need for a road[Read More…]

August 28, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: The Move Over law just added a little more to it

By MASTER TROOPER GARY CUTLER | Colorado State Patrol RBC | On Nov. 26, 2016, my friend, Trooper Cody Donahue, was killed by a truck that failed to move over while he was investigating a crash. This is a story we hear all too often. Prior to that crash, there[Read More…]

July 24, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: ‘Yielding’

The word “yield” has many meanings throughout the English language. You can yield to the next speaker, or the land can yield food from the garden. But today I bring up yield as in the road sign. Too often I find that drivers treat a yield sign as a free[Read More…]

June 20, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Trooper Tips: Living in a new world

RBC | As the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic continue to hit not only the United States, but the entire world, I know that it is affecting everyone’s mental health. It’s hard not to focus on anything but what is plaguing us. But there are still things going on that[Read More…]

April 21, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: CSP Youth Academy

RBC I Once again, it’s time to look toward the youth of Colorado where we give them an experience of a lifetime. The mission of a Colorado State Patrol Trooper is not just enforcing the laws on the state’s highways and interstates. We are also very involved in educating the[Read More…]

February 26, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Trooper Tips: Older drivers

RBC | Driving is a feeling of freedom you get when you’re able to just travel wherever you wish. But, there may come a point in time when either you or someone close to you must make the decision to put the keys away and find another way to commute.[Read More…]

January 19, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled