Greenville, SC

[danielf]

Laurens Road coming in towards Greenville City, from Forrester Drive.
Greenville City PD traffic enforcement officers often park off the right of the road, behind a guardrail. This is near the bottom of the hill on Laurens going toward Greenville city (just after entering city limits), between Forrester Drive and Millenium Boulevard. The "trail", from the road to the guardrail, that the officers have made is pretty obvious.

Salters Road between Millenium Boulevard and Verdae Boulevard.
Greenville City PD traffic enforcement officer (partially marked slick top) has a sort of dirt trail established across from the Embassy Suites side entrance on Salters Road, right after the curve/hill. The officer has quite an advantage on the drivers coming up Salters from Millenium Boulevard; they can't see him until it's way too late.
-fairly certain this is laser.

Interstate 85NB directly at the Interstate 185 on-ramp, to I85NB.
The unmarked GCSO traffic units love this location, especially during lunch hour. There is a dirt track established on the side of the I185 on-ramp to I85NB. It's right where the on-ramp merges into I85NB. However, there are some bushes which makes spotting the officer a little tricky. Most times it is a laser trap, however the units have radar capabilities as well.
The yellow box on the map below is where the LEO is usually at.



Interstate 385SB under Haywood Road bridge.
Greenville City PD unit parks perpendicular to traffic under the Haywood Road bridge. This is usually around the lunch hour.
-fairly certain this is laser.

Interstate 385SB at I85 interchange.
Greenville City PD unit parks in the grassy area right before the onramp from I85 onto I385SB. He's visible, however, from a good distance to SB I385 traffic.

Interstate 385NB between Haywood Road and Pleasantburg Drive.
Greenville City PD unit parks (parallel to traffic) on the right shoulder, just after going over the slight hill that is between Haywood and Pleasantburg.

Augusta Street at E. Tallulah Drive.
Last spring and summer, this was quite a big deal in the AM rush hour. One officer would stand in the shrubs by the road with laser and then multiple officers (4+) waiting on E. Tallulah, where the "chosen" cars were directed to pull over.

[danielf]

Highway 25N, from Travelers Rest to the NC border.
SCHP is frequently on the section of 25N from TR until the NC state line. Greenville County traffic units also are active, at times, along 25N (near SC11 and up) although I don't believe they routinely patrol all the way to the state line.

Interstate 85, north and south, from Woodruff Road to I-185 interchange.
The above section of I-85 is very popular with both Greenville County traffic units and SCHP. There is one (GCSO traffic unit) in particular that monitors the area almost daily, usually at the noon hour.

[danielf]

Enforcement on I-85N between White Horse Rd and the I-385 interchange has slowed down considerably. The officer that used to work that stretch almost daily (in the blue unmarked Impala) seems to no longer be w/ the traffic division. As far as I can tell (in having to drive through that area several times a week), there has not been anyone to replace him.

Still have to watch out for the SCHP in the area, but they are busy working wrecks so often times they are nowhere in sight. Greenville City is out a little at times running laser, but they are usually further up near Laurens Rd or even down near the I-385 interchange.

[danielf]

Greenville County traffic units (unmarked Impalas) have been out again heavier than usual on I-85. They have been all the way from where I-185 comes in to I-85 on up to the county line at I-85 and Highway 14. Instead of parking in one location, they seem to just roam up and down the interstate. I'm not sure why they all of the sudden started liking I-85 again...

Other locations that are popular with the county traffic units are any and all school zones. They especially love the school zones in the vicinity of Brushy Creek Rd and Old Spartanburg Rd. Another popular one is Mitchell Rd, off of E North St, near Shady Ln. The limit is 25mph at certain times of the day, and it is incredibly easy to exceed that limit!

Also, as I said awhile back, Greenville City has a couple of unmarked Dodge Chargers (a couple white ones and a couple black ones) and I have recently seen those vehicles hanging out on I-385 southbound in between Haywood Rd and Roper Mountain Rd. They were sitting on the shoulder, so not very concealed, but the vehicles do have dark tint and are not obvious if you aren't looking for them.