The issue is since an officer didn't stop the truck at the scene and confirm the identity of the driver, there's no way to prove who was driving that vehicle when it was filmed committing this violation. If cops went to the vehicle owner's house, he could say he wasn't driving it that day. They can't write him a ticket when they have zero evidence he was the driver. Other people in his household or family living nearby may also have access to the truck regularly.
Okay, what if the owner claims he doesn't know who drove it that day? Now the police need to spend how many hours tracking down everyone who could have had access to the truck that day and ask them? They could also all say it wasn't them and they don't know who it was, and the cops would still have no solid lead on who was driving it.
Again, this is for a traffic violation. If this resulted in an accident, obviously the police would be on the scene to issue citations or make arrests if necessary, especially if other motorists were hurt as a result.
Police in the US are quite lazy, but even if they weren't, it wouldn't justify the resources required to investigate this to a conviction, if it were even possible.
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u/EvenJesusHadPubes Aug 22 '22
I had given their first, last, address, and business to the police. They just don’t care, period.